Nicole Parker from FBI's Miami office chalks many of the bureau's problems to its post-9/11 shift under Mueller away from crime fighting & towards intelligence collection. New class of program managers (TDYs) in DC gained power gained authority over regional office bosses (SACs)
the kinds of women who joined the FBI in 2010, immediately before enactment of Obama's 2011-2 DEI policies: Coast Guardette, two financiers, Air Force lawyer, accountant, hotel directoress, two engineers. Two were single mothers.
Authoress claims a minority of FBI agents do most work, a phenomenon reinforced by lack of performance pay. 60 statistics were kept for agents, & their nature drove agents to focus on simple crimes & those which afflicted celebrities. Complex financial cases were neglected.
DoJ made implicit bias training mandatory in January 2015. It was unpopular enough at the time that FBI quietly dropped it after some agents refused to complete it.
Following the revelations of foreign intelligence surveillance abuses, FBI mandated additional surveillance warrant training in 2020 & 2021. Possibly why they shifted to relying more on UK & Canada for digital surveillance around that time.
FBI created a DEI office & advisory committee in 2013. Diversity was made an FBI value in 2015. It remained a high priority even after Wray took over the directorship from Comey.
liability law as much as public hysteria pushes the FBI to expand its surveillance efforts. After FBI failed to follow up on a tip on a school shooter, it had to pay a $128 million judgement, & created squads specifically focused on murder threats.
seems that FBI's need to comply with judicial settlements/judgements is great enough that it has a dedicated supplementary training process (Virtual Academy) which it commonly utilizes.
While AA policies had been around since 1980s & DEI since 2013, authoress only noticed decline in new agent quality in 2018. Standards were intentionally lowered and removed at some point prior to December 2018 to increase FBI's diversity & reduce applicant lawsuit risk.
authoress confirms that the FBI's stand-down during the Floyd Riots was intentional. DoJ refused to even prosecute BLM arsonists. The FBI agents in DC who kneeled to George Floyd were promoted & given money by the FBI Agents Association.
US right's decision to embrace the anti-vaxx movement led to a self-purge of rightists from the FBI & other important federal institutions. By far our worst mistake.
pandemic restrictions led to a substantial decline in law enforcement work across all federal agencies. The persecution of the capitol rioters thus consumed an even greater share of FBI hours than previously believed.
FBI agents involved in social media censorship were often hired by tech companies after they left the bureau
The response to the Capitol Riot granted the FBI extraordinary powers - including the ability to use foreign intelligence surveillance abilities on normies & to obtain financial records without warrants or subpoenas.
FBI changed its security clearance process in April 2022 to squeeze out rightists by disqualifying those who supported Trump, considered attending the Capitol Riot, or were anti-vaxx.
By 2022 there were nineteen DEI groups organizing different blocs of FBI agents within the bureau. Christians, to the author's frustration, were naturally denied their own internal FBI group.
the authoress @nicoleparkerusa consulted with America First Policy Institute & testified before both senate & congress, so the bosses in theory should know just how rotten the FBI is.
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