Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI (opens in new tab)

If you make it far enough, you get to the part where they talk about what they are going to do about it.

> I’m looking forward to exploring all of these issues over the next few months in writing, in engagements with the public, and by other means.

It seems they don’t believe that their name will be added to the list as a “persona non grata” who will be toxic for others to associate with. For the sake of democracy, I certainly hope they will not be another name on the list.

> In that way, I hope, I can continue my service to the United States and—of equal importance to me, at this point in my life—to those who still carry FBI credentials.

I feel like political repression is somewhere in the handbook of how to run an autocracy.

> I had served as a field supervisor over a counterintelligence squad in the Washington Field Office.

Counter-intel has a shelf life of around three months in the DC area. It isn't like there weren't multiple opportunities for the FEEB to do something. Oleg Deripaska had multiple properties in the US, including one in NYC and one across the street from Kellyanne Conway near 30th and Massachusetts Ave in DC. Deripaska visited the US on a diplomatic passport multiple times in 2017-2018 and no-one found anything on him? And Charles McGonigal, a retired NYC FBI agent pleaded guilty in 2023 to providing services to Deripaska, who was under US sanctions?

So…they wanted him to take a polygraph interview regarding the nature of his relationship with Peter Strzok, and he resigned instead, did I understand that correctly?

Articles like this are always self serving. We only know details that the author chose to expose and we only have the authors word that those were the only and true reason for the action.

I am skeptical that I am hearing a complete and true accounting of the facts and reasons for the action.

Note that I am not impugning the author, but everyone is the hero or the victim of their own story, and even if everything said was a true and complete accounting of the author’s experience, there might have been reasons (good or nefarious) for the action that were not disclosed to them.

> How did Bongino find out about this private friendship? I honestly don’t know.

So this dude literally worked for THE US domestic intelligence gathering agency and he has no idea how they found out about his friendship to someone who has been all over the news for 9 years for his investigative targeting of the current president?

I mean demotion due to the friendship…or perhaps he is just not the brightest bulb in the bureau?

He is concerned about the politician of the FBI, yet it has already been used as a political weapon long before Trump's current reign. Did FBI not raid journalists involved in covering the Hunter Biden laptop story and attempt to aid in covering this up? That's one large example of the past politically charged actions from the FBI that occurred prior to Trump against the "right".

It seems that his problem is that he does not agree with it now being used against the "side" he stands with, rather than that he disagrees with it being used politically at all. I'd agree that it often is used for political purposes, but I would not agree that this only started in Trump's current term. It's been used by both sides in this way.

> On May 31 of this year, in a series of phone calls beginning at nine in the morning and ending that afternoon, the newly installed Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Norfolk Field Office, Dominique Evans, made clear to me that, at the direction of Dan Bongino, my career with the organization had—for all intents and purposes—come to an end.

Doesn’t sound like a resignation