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The Swamp is in panic mode.<\/p>\n
A cabal of former FBI, intelligence, diplomatic, and national security officials, many of them veterans of the very same corrupt bureaucracy that spent years targeting President Donald Trump, has penned an angry open letter attacking FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino for daring to drain the rotten ranks of the Bureau.<\/p>\n
The group, calling itself The Steady State, claims that the firing of Agents<\/a> Brian Driscoll, Michael Feinberg, and Walter Giardina was nothing short of political revenge.<\/p>\n According to these former officials, the agents were ousted for failing to toe the MAGA line, completely ignoring the well-documented record of the FBI\u2019s weaponization against conservatives.<\/p>\n The firings come as Patel and Bongino carry out a long-overdue purge of corrupt, anti-Trump partisans from the Bureau.<\/p>\n Driscoll had served as acting FBI director before Patel\u2019s appointment, while Giardina played a role in the sham January 6 investigations that targeted Trump supporters across the country.<\/p>\n In a dismissal letter to Giardina, Patel didn\u2019t mince words, \u201cYou have exercised poor judgment and a lack of impartiality in carrying out duties, leading to the political weaponization of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of \u201cweaponization.\u201d Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically. pic.twitter.com\/MUMoQhq37K<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ken Dilanian (@DilanianMSNBC) August 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The letter outrageously accuses the Trump administration\u2019s appointees of \u201cdismantling the FBI\u2019s long-standing independence\u201d and replacing it with \u201cpolitical loyalty,\u201d as if the FBI hadn\u2019t already spent years acting as the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n It gets even better. The Deep State crowd claims Patel and Bongino \u201cdon\u2019t meet the basic standards\u201d to run the FBI, conveniently forgetting that Kash Patel is the same national security bulldog who dismantled the Russia collusion hoax from inside the Trump administration, and Bongino is a decorated Secret Service agent who\u2019s spent decades protecting U.S. presidents.<\/p>\n The letter reads as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cAn Open Letter to the Men and Women of the FBI from The Steady State Expressing Support and Alarm Over Politicization and Retribution \u2013 A Purge<\/strong><\/p>\n We write to you as former members of the U.S. intelligence, diplomatic, defense, and national security communities\u2014veterans of service to both Republican and Democratic administrations.<\/p>\n We are\u00a0The Steady State<\/a>, a nonpartisan group of professionals who have served in the CIA, FBI, State Department, Department of Defense, NSA, DHS, and the uniformed military. Together, we have spent our careers upholding the Constitution and defending the United States from foreign and domestic threats.<\/p>\n We have worked across the globe\u2014at embassies, forward operating bases, and conflict zones\u2014as well as here at home, in Washington, D.C. and in field offices across the country. Some of us sat across the table from foreign intelligence services, some led counterterrorism operations or nuclear nonproliferation programs, while others negotiated treaties or built coalitions in defense of democracy.<\/p>\n Whatever the mission, one constant was our respect for\u2014and reliance on\u2014the integrity, professionalism, and independence of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Together, we helped keep America safe from espionage, terrorism, and transnational crime.<\/p>\n Together, we ensured that more than a dozen presidents had the best intelligence and analysis available to make decisions that shaped the outcome of the Cold War and safeguarded American interests around the world.<\/p>\n It is from that shared legacy of service that we now write in deep concern and solidarity.<\/p>\n The recent removals of seasoned FBI leaders\u2014most notably Agents Brian Driscoll, Michael Feinberg, Walter Giardina\u2014are not isolated personnel matters.<\/p>\n They appear part of a broader campaign to dismantle the FBI\u2019s long-standing independence and recast it as a tool of political loyalty. That such dismissals are reportedly tied to perceived personal disloyalty to former President Donald Trump is profoundly alarming.<\/p>\n The elevation of unqualified political loyalists, such as Kash Patel and Dan Bongino\u2014whose resumes do not meet the basic standards for leadership of the world\u2019s premier law enforcement agency\u2014makes the pattern unmistakable. It is not about reform. It is about control. The aim, it seems, is to transform the FBI from a respected, constitutionally grounded investigative service into a personal enforcement arm of a political figure.<\/p>\n We have seen these dynamics abroad\u2014leaders who demand loyalty from security services not to the law, but to themselves. These regimes do not end well. The FBI has long been a bulwark against such corruption: an institution where rule of law and civil liberties are held in balance with the demands of national security. Its independence is not a bureaucratic feature; it is a democratic necessity.<\/p>\n To our friends and colleagues in the Bureau, past and present: we recognize the pressure you are under. We honor your service and the sacrifices you\u2019ve made\u2014quietly, honorably, often without recognition. And we want you to know: we stand with you.<\/p>\n Your integrity matters. Your courage matters. The nation is watching, and will be inspired by the FBI. And history will remember.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n NEW: Group of former national security & FBI officials issue warning about ongoing purge inside FBI<\/p>\n \u201cThe aim, it seems, is to transform the FBI from a respected, constitutionally grounded investigative service into a personal enforcement arm of a political figure. We have seen\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/b4THbbdXC5<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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