Tom (Retired FBI Agent)

In this day and age, all of us, no matter who you are, we're influenced by the information we take in.

Take into account that very often the people alleging the so-called political motivation of the FBI are themselves hyper-partisan.

I'm good.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it didn't start off that way.

It started off friendly enough, but as it went on, I mean, he has strong viewpoints and

And there were some things I felt inclined to push back on and it went from there.

Sure.

Yeah, I was an FBI agent for 23 years.

I retired in

2020, at the beginning of that year.

And I worked a variety of assignments in my bureau career, all in the LA office.

And I never worked organized crime, so his experiences being the subject of an organized crime investigation by the FBI in the 80s in New York, I obviously have no knowledge of that and didn't work that violation.

But I was married for a dozen years to an LAPD officer, a detective.

She was a patrol officer when we first met.

But in the course of my FBI career, I worked in several task force environments.

And getting a sense of...

The sort of varying cultures, every law enforcement agency has its own culture.

And even within an agency, to use LAPD as an example, you know, there are a number of geographic divisions in the LAPD, what in New York we call precincts.

a perception people have of law enforcement as one monolithic block, but it isn't so.