Thread by @JMichaelWaller

🧵Devastating scoop by @mirandadevine about the 229-page report by current and former @FBI personnel. These professionals confirm that the rot in the FBI is deep and terminal. I'm reading the entire report now. Here's the link to the full PDF. scribd.com/document/75316…

The report's 10 key findings, submitted to Congress, reveal an FBI that's out of control and unreformable.

1. Local law enforcement officers do not trust the FBI.
2. No more actionable, substantive information sharing with FBI.
3. FBI National Academy graduates are troubled by the bias.
4. Crisis of confidence in FBI-led task forces.
5. The FBI is isolated and unresponsive to local law enforcement.
6. Local law enforcement officers feel disrespected by FBI special agents.
7. Today's tone-deaf FBI disregards the value of retired FBI special agents.
8. The new generation of sub-standard FBI special agents.
9. FBI management is too transitory and obsessed with self-promotion.
10. The FBI's cult of narcissism begins at the FBI Academy.

Executive summary of the report:

1. This Report on Local Law Enforcement’s Loss of Trust in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Critical Impact on Public Safety and National Security is
being presented to the American people for full transparency and review by a National Alliance of retired and active-duty FBI Special Agents and Analysts in consultation and close coordination with trusted local law enforcement partners.

2. This Report is a first-of-its-kind analysis of both solicited and unsolicited information collected from local law enforcement officers who as respected and experienced veterans of small, medium and large local law enforcement agencies shared their opinions of today’s FBI with unprecedented candor.

3. Beginning in February 2024 and continuing through June 2024, the Alliance received detailed, anecdotal reporting on local law enforcement’s disturbing loss of trust in the FBI - in direct correlation with the public’s unfavorable views of the FBI - from more than 30 independent, highly credible law enforcement Sources and Sub-sources.

4. The Sources and Sub-sources also include active-duty and retired veterans of the FBI who had direct access to and first-hand knowledge of the information provided.

5. Analysis of the information generated ten (10) Key Findings that point directly to a real-time, critical impact on Public Safety and National Security.

6. The Key Findings detailed in the section below are followed by recommendations for an immediate, bi-partisan response by the appropriate Congressional Committees responsible for oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI to:

a. IDENTIFY the extent of the damage to inter-agency information sharing and cooperation between local law enforcement and the FBI using historical documentation found in the FBI’s own self-inspection records.

b. ADVOCATE for bold administrative action and FBI leadership change based on an assessment of the potential harm to the American people who, based on the Key Findings in this Report, are more vulnerable to exploitation and attack by highly motivated violent criminals, terrorist organizations, and our Nation’s adversaries because of the deteriorating trust in today's FBI.

Key finding #1: LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS DO NOT TRUST THE FBI.

"Local law enforcement partners - including seasoned local law enforcement veterans, command staff, and heads of local law enforcement agencies - whose
unfiltered opinions serve as the basis of this Report - do not trust the FBI because they believe the FBI in recent years has been operating as a partisan federal
agency motivated by a political agenda."

Key Finding #2: NO MORE ACTIONABLE, SUBSTANTIVE INFORMATION SHARING WITH THE FBI

"Because they do not trust the FBI, local law enforcement partners who both knowingly and unknowingly contributed to this Report are not only reluctant to work with the FBI but reportedly have decided to no longer share actionable, substantive information on criminal and other intelligence-related activity with the FBI."

Key Finding #3: FBI NATIONAL ACADEMY GRADUATES ARE TROUBLED BY BIAS

"Local law enforcement partners who attended and were graduated from the FBI National Academy (for select U.S. and international law enforcement executives) are also sounding the alarm, saying they are troubled by the FBI’s apparent political bias and failure to execute the law enforcement mission without
contamination by a political agenda."

Key Finding #4: CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN FBI-LED TASK FORCES

"Reporting by local law enforcement partners reveal the deterioration of the liaison between local law enforcement partners and the FBI is most evident in the Task Force environment where the relationships between multiple law enforcement agencies and the FBI are - in some cases - 'imploding' because of poor management and ineffective leadership by the FBI."

Key Finding #5: THE FBI IS ISOLATED AND UNRESPONSIVE TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT

"Local law enforcement partners across the country reporting as independent and separate Sources and Sub-sources say with extensive corroboration that the FBI in recent years has become increasingly isolated and is consistently unresponsive to attempts by local law enforcement to initiate contact, conduct liaison, develop working relationships with, and request specialty training from the FBI."

Key Finding #6: LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FEEL DISRESPECTED BY FBI SPECIAL AGENTS

"While the relationship between local law enforcement officers and the FBI has historically been complicated by inherent challenges, local law enforcement officers say they generally feel so disrespected by today’s FBI Special Agents and supervisory personnel that any positive opinions of individual FBI personnel - characterized as rare exceptions by local law enforcement officers - are overshadowed by a predominantly persistent and negative opinion of the FBI as an organization."

KEY FINDING #7: TODAY'S TONE-DEAF FBI DISREGARDS THE VALUE OF RETIRED FBI SPECIAL AGENTS

"Retired FBI Special Agents, some of whom in their post-FBI careers currently serve as heads of local law enforcement agencies, reported stories of tone-deaf
FBI personnel, including FBI Executive Managers, across multiple FBI Field Offices who commonly disregard attempts by these retired FBI Special Agents – as part
of their official duties as local law enforcement agency heads - to conduct liaison with the FBI, share time-sensitive investigative leads, and offer expertise
developed during decades of service in the FBI."

KEY FINDING #8: THE NEW GENERATION OF SUB-STANDARD FBI SPECIAL AGENTS

"Local law enforcement partners with extensive experience working with and around FBI Special Agents are observing a notable decline in the quality of the new generation of FBI Special Agents, described as 'completely worthless' by a local law enforcement officer currently serving in a supervisory position and as
'the worst batch of people' by a senior FBI employee."

Key Finding #9: FBI MANAGEMENT IS TOO TRANSITORY AND OBSESSED WITH SELF-PROMOTION

"FBI supervisory personnel, including FBI Executive Managers, are obsessed with self-promotion and rotate in and out of supervisory positions so frequently because of the FBI’s 'up-or-out' promotional program that local law enforcement officers, most notably those who are members of multi-law enforcement agency Task Forces, say they have given up on trying to develop meaningful, long-lasting relationships with their FBI supervisory contacts."

Key Finding #10: THE FBI'S CULT OF NARCISSISM BEGINS AT THE FBI ACADEMY

"Not only does the FBI Academy for New Agent Training promote a cult of narcissism by imbuing a false sense of superiority over all local, state and federal law enforcement, taxpayer dollars are being spent to build a
'Wellness Center' for yoga and meditation at the FBI Academy in lieu of prioritizing resources to provide a formal training curriculum that teaches FBI New Agent Trainees - with humility and a higher sense of service and professionalism - the value of developing positive working relationships with local law enforcement."

@mirandadevine @FBI I had no advance knowledge of this report. Many of its findings match what I wrote about in Big Intel. Many others are new but match what I understood from elsewhere.

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