The National Security Risks of an FBI Upheaval
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- Sanborn spent 24 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Prior to servicing as Executive Assistant Director, Sanborn served as the assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., The first female to hold this position. She began her FBI career as a special agent in 1998.
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Thank ALL of them for their Service 🗽🇺🇲👏👏👏👏💯
Thank you. Miss Sanborn.
Your screwed if you let Cash Patel run your national law enforcement agency. Period!
That's how Biden ended every sentence and look where that got us. Period eh?
Do not expect info sharing with your allies to go on as usual.
Nor partners, sources, etc. All credibility goes out the window. The trust is broken if they hand these people over in a list
Don’t blame them. Our institutions can’t be trusted.
".....too early to say....." good bottom line, ".....we don't know...." "....try not to overreact...."
So we'll see. Thankyou.
Much appreciate all the govt agency people, in all cases, thankyou all!
You'll have to watch closely I'd suppose ! If I think of a Tulsi Gabbard...& Pete Hegsett
I would like to say Thank You for her service in protecting our country. (Also, in the reply section to my (this) comment I want to run a little survey. I hope you will participate 😊)...
With all due respect to MS. Sanborn, I want to get your opinion - Is that a wig she is wearing that appears to need to be moved forward on top to cover her natural-colored hair, or just a cool hair style? (Either way, I think it looks great!): Yes, if a wig or No if it's all her hair - your thoughts:
I’m dedicated to the mission. Hire me.
Can you really not see what's happening or are you just being polite.
You can expect her, having worked in such organization, being very conservative in expression, focused very much on very explicit facts and extremely careful in interpretation.
@pavelhromadka658 Yep. I'm an old fashioned behaviourist with an interest the use of psychological manipulation techniques to create individualised fake realities in order to sew societal division.
Was writing about this very scenario for near 4 decades.
Concerns about how the incoming Trump administration’s restructuring of the FBI may pose national security risks warrant careful scrutiny. However, given the FBI’s recent history of politically charged investigations, ethical lapses, and selective enforcement of the law, one must ask whether the FBI-or those closely affiliated with it-is in any position to objectively assess those risks.
Institutional continuity is valuable for ensuring national security, but no agency can expect to operate without accountability. Over the past decade, the FBI has been at the center of numerous controversies, many of which have called into question its impartiality and adherence to ethical standards. Whether justified or not, these controversies have damaged the FBI’s reputation, making significant restructuring inevitable. It should come as no surprise that the incoming administration views reform-or even a "purge"-as necessary.
If FBI leadership had consistently maintained nonpartisan integrity, widespread distrust would not exist. Had top officials avoided ethical breaches, partisan investigations, and politically motivated leaks, confidence in the institution would remain intact. But that is not how the FBI has operated in recent years, and now the institution itself is facing the consequences.
This highlights a fundamental lesson: any institution whose mission depends on impartiality and ethical integrity which tolerates ethical breaches and political bias is ultimately jeopardizing its own survival. A law enforcement agency that aligns itself-explicitly or implicitly-with one political faction should expect retaliation when power shifts. The failure of the FBI to self-correct its course since at least 2016 has brought us to this moment.
This pattern is not unique to the FBI. The Biden administration made a similar error by downplaying public concerns about the 2020 election, dismissing scrutiny rather than addressing it transparently. Institutions that neglect public trust may maintain short-term control, but they lay the groundwork for future instability. Just as the FBI’s actions contributed to its current predicament, the failure to uphold transparency in other critical areas of governance has exacerbated divisions across the country.
Ultimately, the real danger to national security is not just personnel changes in the FBI, but the long-term erosion of trust in institutions that should be above partisan politics. If a federal law enforcement agency is seen as politically compromised, it cannot effectively serve the nation. If elections are viewed as opaque, faith in democracy itself weakens. The current moment is not an isolated crisis-it is the result of years of institutional failures that must be corrected if national stability is to be preserved.
Outstanding. Thank you for these thoughts. The lens will shift to Langley. Political appointees for DCI. Says a lot. Not the best and the brightest. Sadly Allan Dulles is not on hand. That. Is the hide America wants on the wall..And the truth will set you free. And to see that every day.
In essence the FBI became a bigger threat than the pople they were supposed to be chasing. “The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government”. George Washington 1789.
@gnolan4281 Well said. The founding notions for America were fundamental and pretty straightforward. It requires a properly and honestly informed people. The responsibility of every America.
Too late.
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Important interview, thank you. While I sympathize with the thousands of honorable hard-working agents, we need serious reform. As an average American (who plays by the rules) I feel a deep sense of betrayal.
Whatever vatnik😂 average Americans don't even think about the FBI unless it's some Netflix show😂
IMO... July 5, 2016. FBI never set that right. Nor did DoJ. Many were hired since. The good news is that incoming FBI Director and new AG Bondi can ask "what was the effect of what James Comey did on staff hiring, training, assignments? and what the lack of setting that issue right on FBI sense of mission?" There were SAPs on that server. There were consequences of leaks.
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They had 36% of the agents assigned to tracking down J6 defendants from one report . That’s 4,500+ agents. So losing half of those at most won’t stop them from doing their job. Just reassign the agents assigned to tracking down J6 down the other approximately 800 J6 defendants they didn’t find, or were still investigating.
They need to put in new leadership at every level. They determine the culture.
Should that new leadership maybe have a republican party agreed upon license?
They (Trump and his team) tried to stop by violence or change thru imposter electors, the counts of the Electoral College votes. That, is a Coup d'Etat.
The Insurrections, including Trump and his Team, were and are criminals and traitors.
They should all be in Jail.