Prepared to hear the truth from a real whistleblower and
American patriot? Here's civil liberties
enthusiast, Second Amendment defender and indefinitely
suspended FBI agent Kyle Serafin.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for the Kyle
Seraphin Show. Today is Wednesday, December
14th. I've got it slightly later than
normal. We've got 4:15 in the afternoon
here. And I've got with me producer
Phil, who's going to be keeping us on track.
I hope today's episode is going to be called.
What started as a passion has become a paycheck.
I think this is a common sentiment for people in the FBI.
It's something that has identified or people have
identified with when I've spoken to them, former agents, current
agents. And I've had at least three long
form conversations today with friends of mine in the Bureau in
various different places, you know, different levels of
experience and and seniority. And they all kind of agree with
that. Like, right now, people in the
FBI that want to keep their job are tucking in and they're
holding on, and they are trying to just not upset anybody.
A good friend of mine told me that he was able to kind of keep
a job that is sort of administrative right now as long
as he wants. And there's this constant fear
that you text the wrong thing to the wrong person.
You send the wrong e-mail with a sentiment that offends some sort
of sensitive group. And that could be the end for
you. It's very similar to the kind of
experience that I've had. And, you know, you step on the
wrong toes and that's where you end up.
So what started as a passion to come a paycheck?
I first actually heard that from producer Phil, and that was a
couple of years ago. Phil, when did you first realize
that that was the case for you, bud?
Well, I think it starts even earlier than when you're in the
job. Do you remember when you were at
the Academy and maybe like day one, day 2, they asked the
question something to the effect of, hey, who took a pay cut to
actually join the FBI? And like the majority of the
hands in the class go up. Which stands to reason because
most of these folks were probably professionals before
and AGS 10 step one really isn't a ton of money so. 65 something
like that, $1000 a year kind of deal.
So when you're 30 years old and presumably at the organization
is hiring professionals, you're probably statistically making
more than that. But then it begs the question,
well, who would do that? Who would take a pay cut when
they got making more money elsewhere?
Well, it's somebody who wanted a job that seemed noble to protect
their fellow Americans from force and fraud.
And. Just a few years later, they
ultimately discover, oh, that's not actually what we do here,
right? Actually, this is an
organization that is in the appearance of fighting crime
business, not the crime fighting business.
So that's the truth. That's yeah, that's when a
paycheck is no longer a passion. I've had a an ongoing
discussion. Phil and I used to sit on
surveillance together sometimes and we would have these funny
little conversations where I said the FBI is in the business
of law enforcement cosplay, specifically federal law
enforcement cosplay, which is to say that we looked like we were
doing law enforcement. We were doing activities that
were related to law enforcement activities.
And yet a lot of it is cartoon informative theater, right down
to the fact that everybody shows up at the the firearm shoots and
they wear clothes that they have never worn between the last
firearm shoot and that one. They're the same Quantico
khakis. It's the same, you know,
baseball hat they wore when they were training at the Academy.
It's just performative. They put on a leather holster
that they would never use and they never have.
You know, they carry 3 magazines.
Like that's something they're going to do in their daily life,
which is absurd. Like, you know, people don't
walk around with three magazines on them unless you're a duty cop
and you have a duty belt, but FBI just put them on because
there's three magazine changes in our in our qualification.
And so that's what they do. It's very performative and very
silly. I used to try to do magazine
changes out of my pocket sometimes because sometimes I
carry a magazine in a pocket. I used to do it with the two
that I would carry if I was going into like kind of a
heavier duty area where I thought it might actually have
to shoot somebody or defend my life that way.
So I would always carry these like kydexes, but I'd never
carry more than two And I always would reload magazines on the on
the range because that's, that's what real people who really
carry guns do. And the FBI is not that often
times. That doesn't mean that they're
not serious people in the FBI doesn't mean there's not more
serious people than me. There certainly are.
It's just one of those things that I found to be kind of
interesting. So the paycheck becoming the
pension, it's it's dangerous. It's funny because I'm one of
those hands that did not go up. You know, my the most I ever
made, while I take that back, I made more money before I went to
the military. But once I enlisted, I came out
and I was making $35,000 a year or so as a paramedic in an
emergency room and also on an ambulance.
There's not a lot of pay in that.
There's a lot of responsibility. In fact, a lot more than most
FBI agents handle daily. You know, it's someone's grandma
that's dying right there. It's a husband that's having a
heart attack that still has children.
There's a lot of kind of gravity in the situation and we pay
paramedics very, very little across this country because it
only requires a high school diploma for most people.
And so, you know, I, I did that and I came and I almost doubled
my salary. You know, I walked actually, I
was a stay at home dad with no kids be directly before the
Academy. So I had no paycheck.
My wife was earning and we went there and paid off all her
student loans. And I think that's something we
should talk about is that the, IT was mentioned on my Twitter
feed today that having debt and significant debt, whether it's
credit card or car, you know, anything outside of a mortgage
that that long term, you know, tied to a property debt really
leaves you in a vulnerability where you need that job and
you've got to do what you're told.
And that culture, that debt culture that the America you
know, that we all live in has created, leaves us vulnerable in
the national security realm. I think you're going to have to
do things that you may not be comfortable with because
otherwise they come and take all your things.
All your toys are gone. They're going to come and
they're going to wreck your credit.
You'll never be able to buy another house.
A lot of my colleagues are in that position where they are not
necessarily paycheck to paycheck, but they are debt
payment to debt payment service where at any moment, you know,
they may not be able to meet those obligations without the
paycheck that they they signed on for.
They've they've over leveraged themselves.
I think it's a national security issue.
I think the fact that I did not owe anybody a penny with the
exception of my mortgage when I made the decision to speak
forward, you know, step out and speak forward, that's the same
decision that Stephen Friend made.
We both had financial safety Nets that we had built for
ourselves. I think that is a critical,
critical requirement. And, and as a contrast, when I
was an early, you know, early in my FBI career, I got assigned to
the surveillance squad. We're out there in the cold, and
it's the first sequester that I experienced, which is when the
FBI continued to ask us to go to work, but they weren't going to
pay us Maybe that we ended up losing like one paycheck and
then one was delayed for a couple days.
It was not a significant life experience for me.
And I had senior agents 2025 years in, including my
supervisor, who were concerned whether or not they were going
to be able to meet their financial obligations.
They were talking about how Navy federal credit was extending
paychecks, basically, and they were going to keep making those
deposits. They were going to honor the
direct deposits that were already ongoing.
Even if the direct deposit didn't show up, they would
credit it against your account so people could make that, you
know, make ends meet, which is insane because at that point in
time, I was making, you know, 80 or $90,000 a year.
And the FBI salary for for people's awareness goes from
your first year, you're making, you know, somewhere between 60
and 70,000, depending on the office you're in.
And then it climbs up. And by the time that you hit
five years in, which is the 10 year when you hit the GS13
level, the base pay with no locality adjustment, no cost of
living adjustment is like $120,000 a year.
It's something right around that 119 and change.
So you know, people in TC are making 100 and 34135, San
Francisco maybe 100 and 38140. That's at five years in.
That's a pretty good salary for the kind of work that we got to
do. And you know, they're not paying
you because you're the best in the world.
That's an absurd contention. What they should be paying you
for is that you have absolutely undeniable integrity and that
you cannot be purchased. They're pre paying that you will
do the right thing because, you know, cops work for far less
detectives work for far less and do a lot more on the ground
direct impact on the the public safety.
But the idea is, is that a federal agent should be beyond
reproach that when you make a case, it sticks.
When you do it, it's for the right reasons in the right way
and you do not have any, you know, outside interest that's
going to slow you down. So it's worth noting that that's
kind of the, the expectation. And there's something very
dangerous about people who are looking for a canned food
kitchen in the basement of the Washington field office where I
was. And I'm, I'm telling you my, the
agents I worked with made $175,000 a year.
They were at the top of the federal scale.
They maxed out the pay grade as AGS 1310 + 25% for law
enforcement availability. So I'm talking specific numbers
because I think a lot of people do not have a concept of what an
FBI paycheck is. Nobody gets rich like nobody
gets filthy rich being an FBI agent, at least at the brick
agent level, which is to say the so-called rank and file.
$175,000 though is a comfortable living for a lot of people.
And some of these folks are, you know, multiple GS salaries in
the same house. If you have a spouse that's
making 607080 or 100 or if you've got 2 GS thirteens, which
happens, or AGS 13 and a 14, you know, you're, you're talking
about a $350,000 a year household.
That's a significant amount of money, at least in my
experience, because like I've, I've lived on $35,000 a year and
I could do it. I'm living on less than that
right now because I gave up my salary and I gave up my house.
And you know, you got to cut, you got to tighten your belt up.
But that's something that many of you should probably be
familiar with, especially my friends who are in law
enforcement, my folks who are in the military, you know, officers
make a decent paycheck, but none of them are getting rich.
It's the same kind of idea. So the idea that you're going to
let the passion that you had to come in and do the right thing
get taken over by just maintaining this paycheck.
It happens when you're in a debt culture and it happens, I think
when the agency doesn't live up to your expectations, It doesn't
do the job that it it swears it's going to do.
And and then people take that on, They, they become that
person that's just doing enough to get by.
It's just five more years. That's a terrible way to live,
live your life. There's very few people that
could do that and maintain the same focus and the same kind of
integrity, I would say. So that's kind of what we're
looking at. I want to talk about, I have a
couple of notes here, so I'm going to refer to them, but one
of the cult, the cultural problems within the FBI and
folks are starting to kind of see this.
I'll give a concrete example is that when executive management
screws the pooch and they are the ones who often times do this
sort of thing. Like, sure, there's a guy who
does a backflip in a, in a nightclub in Colorado and, you
know, shoot somebody in the leg. That's a moron move.
I think the guy was probably a nice guy.
He just blew it, you know, and ran through a bunch of stop
signs on a night that I won't say that could happen to
anybody, but I will say that like mistakes happen to a lot of
us for a lot of reasons. It doesn't.
You know, people drive drunk when they don't think they're
drunk. There's a lot of things that we
are kind of excusable foolishness.
You know, he got in trouble because he tried to play it off.
But I'm talking about kind of the serious darkness that exists
when we're talking about sort of the evil that's in the FBI.
It's it's the banal kind of everyday evil of choosing to do
something that they think is good because of their political
beliefs. They're willing to abuse the
agency's credibility and sell out people like Phil and I to do
something that they think is morally righteous when in fact,
it has, you know, it's, it's not what the FBI does.
So a very specific example was what happened with Larry Nasser.
I have two daughters and I've said that before.
When you think about someone abusing children, there are a
few things that get my blood boiling much more than that.
I think that is almost universal across the spectrum of agents
that I've dealt with. People refer to to violent
crimes against children work as like some of the most righteous
work you can do. Like running down child abusers
and traffickers is something that I think everybody in the in
the Bureau, nobody would object to being assigned to that.
And the people that would, I don't want to work with them.
Let's just be clear about that. Same thing with any kind of
local cops. Like if you don't want to go
after people hurting kids, I don't know what you're doing.
I have a very tangible experience of doing that.
I've, I've taken children out of abusive situations as as young
as like 18 months old when I was a paramedic.
I've been called and been the transporting medic to a
Children's Hospital for examination.
You know, it's everything that a local cop can do not to put
somebody in the ground when they find out that they threw a baby
who's 18 months old down the stairs.
I have an 18 month old. I have felt like throwing him
down the stairs. Sometimes they do that sort of
thing. But no, that's not a parent
move. That's like a like a just a
disgusting monster move. And the guys that I've seen do
it, you know, they're lucky to be alive.
And if they go to prison, they're probably going to
experience the full wrath of what people who are in prison,
who are abused experience. So it's, it's it's really
righteous work. And what I'm getting at is what
happened with Larry Nasser's case is, is so ugly because of
how it happened. It is not strictly speaking, as
far as I can tell, a federal crime.
There may be some Interstate transportation that kind of went
in, but the actual abuse individually is a local criminal
issue. For a physician to betray his,
you know, oath that he has the Hippocratic Oath and abuse his
position of power, particularly a government doctor like this to
take advantage of young women, which is what happened.
Here's kind of where it gets really sketchy.
Someone reported that to an FBI agent in was it the Indianapolis
office. Does that sound right, Phil?
Yeah, that sounds right. I'll pull it up here while
you're. All right, so Phil's going to
confirm that, but I believe it was out of Indianapolis.
And when that allegation went in, every single FBI agent and
I, I don't know if it's every FBI employee, but certainly I
was, we're all what's called mandated reporters of child
abuse. My wife is in the same scenario.
She's a a marriage and family therapist.
So when you are a mandated reporter, even if you have no
strictly speaking like liability to do anything about it, you are
required by law to continue to report and make sure that this
information gets passed to the right authorities.
The agent who had this allegation made to him and it
may have been a her actually, I don't actually know that the
brick agent that was involved in this went to a supervisor.
The supervisor went to the ASAC. I'm, I'm just kind of going up
the chain. So it's, you know, GS 13 or 10
to 13 is kind of your entry level agents.
The 14 is the first supervisor, the supervisory agent and then
you move into assistant special agent in charge.
And then usually the top guys were girl is called a special
agent in charge. And that's an SES position,
which is senior executive service.
If you followed me at all, you know that I have a problem with
SES. For what it's worth, President
Trump had an issue with them. They're the kind of the deep
state, they're the issue that needs to be handled in a lot of
ways in DC. They're the problem.
So when we talk about actually Sam Britton randomly, like the
guy who stole the luggage that likes to dress in a dog costume
was an SES, you know, usually it's a long term government
employee randomly. In their case, they made it a
non politically appointed, you know, job so that he could get
into that because I don't think he would have cleared a, a
Senate confirmation hearing. So, you know, the, the 13 or so
that got the input that that Larry Nasser was doing these
things to these girls took it to the 14, the 14 brought to the
ASAC. The ASAC said, hey, look, you
know, boss, this is to the to the SES level.
We've got a serious problem because this is a, you know, a
very notable, what we would call a sensitive investigative
matter. And the FBI handles sensitive
investigative matters very specifically.
They've got a whole, you know, criteria of how to adjudicate
what that looks like and, and who is involved and, and whether
or not they get certain protections.
But essentially it just it Shields the case from every
scrutiny outside of the normal agents that might be able to,
you know, query our internal file servers and they get a
little bit of extra, I won't say leeway, but they get a little
extra privacy within the FB is investigative process.
And so it's shielded from a lot of eyes and not everybody can
can get involved in it and so on.
So you usually have to be a case manager and part of the actual
investigation. So this would have been a SIM.
Larry Nast would have been a public official or a public
entity that would have been likely a sensitive, you know,
he's a he's a physician and so on.
And he was working for the the gymnastics, you know, the
gymnastics team for the USA Olympic Committee.
Here's where it gets to be a problem.
The special agent in charge and Phil's going to confirm the
office had a sitting job offer in retirement.
Was it Indianapolis? Yes.
Yeah. OK.
So the special agent in charge there had a job offer and my
understanding was it was like a security position for the United
States Olympic Committee or it may have been for USA Gymnastics
specifically. But regardless, it was related
to and it was a conflict of interest situation to go and go
against what Larry Nassar was doing who is representing US
gymnastics. And so the the brick agent
brought it all the way up the chain and was told like this has
been handled and then it was not handled and girls were abused
for longer. And the FBI could have gotten
out in front of it and reported to local authorities and made
the credible allegations and assisted if necessary.
But more likely not just been a pass through of the information
to the people that needed to go do that, that local
investigation and stop this monster who was abusing the
trust of these girls. And that didn't happen.
And So what that tells us is that the failure was at the top.
So the executive management, the senior executive service in this
case screwed it up. And then the result was guys
like Phil and I got hit with what we call a virtual Academy.
Anybody who's familiar with government work has probably
seen the kind of virtual Academy trainings we do.
But these are online, you know, slideshows, very generic.
It's prepared by some person that I don't know how that's
their job, but their job is to create like digital trainings
that don't do anything. And then there's like a
knowledge test and videos and somebody reading and narrating
a, you know, a bunch of crap. And it it's garbage.
It's it's it's like a penance. And in the case of the Larry
Nasser case, you need the executive management screwed the
pooch on this and exposed little girls to a real serious issue
for a lot longer. And the BRIC agents who had
nothing to do with it are the ones who got the training.
There's never a mea culpa in the FBI in my experience.
And maybe that's the case for other government agencies too,
but nobody ever owns. It's like, I screwed this up.
I'm going to eat it. I'm going to retire and fall on
my sword and resign because I'm disgraced.
It's always like, oh, can we make somebody else fall for it?
So the way that it worked is that senior executive that SES
the the sack for that office retired with pension and went to
go probably take that job with the the I don't have any further
information on that, but walked away unscathed essentially
without being named in the public sphere.
And then you're and then the DOJ declined charges because that's
what they do. Like the DOJ is a cosigner for
the FB is malfeasance. The brick agent was fired,
despite the fact that there's probably pretty good evidence
that that was not the fault of that person.
Now, maybe they should have followed up, but like where I
come from, if I go tell my boss, hey, man, I got this problem and
he says I've got it, that's the end of it for me.
And I think that should be the expectation for people of honor.
This goes back to that, that what that paycheck is supposed
to be. It's not that you're the best at
anything in particular because I don't think that I'm the
greatest criminal investigator ever to walk the earth.
But I am someone of integrity and you can't make me do
something that I that I believe is morally wrong.
Hopefully that's been proven out over the last couple months.
So when you deal with the idea that you go and bring it to your
boss, you should be able to trust that your boss says, I got
it. That's the end of it.
It should be the end of it. It's a troubling, it's a
troubling kind of thing. This has happened over and over
and over again. It doesn't matter whether it was
FISA abuse that nobody in the FBI was involved in, minus like
a handful of the small cadre of people in DC.
And then we all had to take Crossfire Hurricane FISA
training, including people who do don't even know what a FISA
is like. They've never seen it.
They've never been around anybody that signed a FISA or,
or helped do the research on the background of it.
There's a lot of people that had to do quote, UN quote FISA
training that, you know, they missed the mark it had.
It wasn't the people who committed the crime that did the
penance for this or committed the sin, rather that did the
penance. So that's an ongoing issue in
the FBII think I think it's worth noting that this kind of
stuff is just pretty common. I'm going to bring up a couple
things that came out of my Twitter feed because I think
they're really interesting to This morning I woke up and I saw
that Dinesh D'souza, who I've I've been in contact with
recently, said I'm going to quote him.
Do you mind pulling up the, the tweet there?
We're on it. So, so Dinesh says, you know,
I'm not saying that ordinary FBI agent is corrupt or that the
FBI, you know, ordinary FBI agent is corrupt.
The agents are just quote, UN quote, following orders the way
the Germans did in the 1930s. Like I've been preaching this.
So this is true. This is how corruption and
gangsterism trickles down through the agencies of the
state. Bad people make the good people
carry out nefarious schemes. That's I, I, I cosign on that.
I told him exactly. I was like, Hey, you're over the
mark right now. I sent him a, a quick text
message and told him that I said, if the average agent won't
or can't stand up for their own rights, and this is the
situation that I found to be the case.
If they're not going to stand up for their own rights, how in the
world are they going to stand up for the everyday Americans
rights that they don't even know?
And, and, and that's a real serious problem.
It's a real serious question and real serious people need to
answer it. I think Chris Ray should be put
that on there. One of my supervisors told me,
I've, I've now said this on 2 podcasts at a radio show, but
essentially my, my supervisor came to me when I was telling
him that I was under no circumstances going to take a
COVID-19 test without symptoms. First of all, I'm a paramedic
and I'm sick. I know it just like everybody
else in the world does. But like I've got some medical
credentials to back it up. And then moreover, I have top
secret clearance. So if you can't trust me to stay
at home with a box of Kleenex, like what can you trust me to
do? I think everybody knows since
2020 that going into the office with a hacking cough or blowing
your nose makes everybody uncomfortable.
I, I don't actually think it's a problem.
I think go on and, and spread it and get rid of it.
And like, we're all going to come out this time, you know,
we'll all be immunized the same way we always have in history.
But for now, there's a lot of fear, there's a lot of concerns.
So you don't get to go into the office.
If you got the sniffles, you got to stay home.
And I have a lot of sick leave and so does everybody else who's
a federal employee that spent a little bit of time in.
And so if you can't trust me with that, then you better take
my top secret clearance and pull it right away.
It's real straightforward, non negotiable.
And my boss said, look, I know what what we're doing is wrong.
I'm paraphrasing here, but I've got alimony because he was
divorced and I've got a mortgage and I can't take the stand with
you. So you just admitted to me that
you are willing to sell your character for 150,000 or
$170,000 a year because we all have the same oath and we all
have the same perspective. I think at least at one point in
time, everybody feels pretty ideological and pretty
idealistic. Rather when they're at the FBI
Academy, it's like, you know, it's rah rah Team America.
It's exactly what you're seeing behind me here.
It's a flag with night vision and a freaking painted rifle
that's ready to go get bad guys as needed.
And that's what the that's what the badge is.
You know, it's that shiny piece of, of a copper or whatever the
heck it is that just says like, you know, I believe in this
thing and I'm willing to stand up and, and be the guy that puts
this on my belt and identifies myself as one of the good guys.
So what happens when you can't? Very dangerous.
And I'm going to segue into another sort of Twitter piece
here. And I don't mean to be this like
a Twitter outing, but if you're not following me on on social
media, you can at Kyle Seraphin. It's at Kyle Seraphin.
It's really straightforward. I'm on truth and I'm on Twitter.
Interesting. I've had a surge in in Fowler
account under the the Twitter account, which is kind of cool
for me 'cause it's a much wider audience.
A lot of people that don't agree with me.
That's what I I prefer to talk to people that don't agree with
me and maybe change some hearts and minds.
I think that the things that I'm saying are not partisan and
they're pretty reasonable and with a small amount of snark
when it comes to Barstool Sports.
Apparently I started a fire the other day on accident.
But when we talk about this, this next one here, this is
something that's really near and dear to my heart.
So if you pull up the tweet about about Ashley Roberts and
Brian Costello, these are two WFO off, you know, agents.
My understanding is, is they're relatively junior in their
career. And and that may mean that they
only have, you know, the same amount of time that I have.
People probably called me junior at six years in.
But relatively speaking, like at least one of them is probably
under three years in, you know, might even be still be on
probation. And we're talking about people
that are working for Counterterrorism 4, which is one
of the, you know, one of the multiple counterterrorism squads
in Washington DC that does domestic terrorism.
So why is that relevant and, and why did I, you know, send their
picture out there? And the answer is really
straightforward. They showed up at, you know,
sometime in after my friend had already showed up and, and and
been removed of his clearance. He was a national security
branch employee as AGS 14. He was a MAPA, so working
management and program analysis jobs.
It's kind of a catch all title that allows him to do kind of a
a wide variety of things. He showed up at the Capitol on
January 6th. He listened to the sitting
president speak and what I would call a very, very clearly First
Amendment protected activity. And then he went and sat and had
his lunch on the lawn outside the Capitol.
And from the way he tells me, he was sitting low enough that he
couldn't see what was going on there.
But when they started hearing it and they got a whiff of tear
gas, they decided it was time to go.
That's not a crime. That's not even there.
There's there's no allegation or information that that is a
problem for anybody. And the FBI cleared him of
wrongdoing, were unable to bring any criminal charges, obviously,
because that's nonsensical. They still kept him suspended.
And then these agents showed up like a month later in front of
his house. They didn't leave a card and
they didn't say who they were. They were on his ring Cam.
He was able to track it down because we've got a pretty
exclusive and pretty extensive source network of people that
work all over the FBI, and they were able to tell us who it was.
And lo and behold, they showed up again.
They showed up again in either late October or early November.
I think it was actually in early November, 90 days after the
first time, which is when file reviews are due.
That's what Phil will be able to Co sign on for me.
But file reviews happen every every 90 days.
It's just a check up to make sure that you're actually moving
the cases forward. You're earning that paycheck you
get from the FBI. And so you know, they're out
there checking the box. You don't get to check the box
when somebody has legal representation as an FBI
employee and you've been notified of it.
That's it. That's a violation of our
policy. And they were making phone calls
despite the fact that they've been notified that they had
legal counsel to my friend's wife.
And so they're like leaving voice messages.
This woman, Ashley, is doing that.
And, you know, first of all, it's a policy violation as far
as anybody of us can tell, like you should.
Every time you're notified of, of council, you've got six
months to basically go through council.
The second thing is, why are they trying to jam up on
counterterrorism charges? Like the guy didn't do anything.
That's pretty obvious. And So what kind of BS case are
they working? It doesn't matter if it was what
we call a contact case, which is that you had contact with
someone else that they're investigating.
Go through the attorney. It's very easy.
Submit your questions in writing if you want.
They had access to them. They knew his chain of command,
they knew his, you know, his managers and so on.
And so these people showed back up.
So I, I published their picture on November 9th of this year, so
about a month ago and that was the end of it.
You know, we, we got a pretty good traction on I think 135,000
eyeballs impressions were made on, on Twitter, which is kind of
fun for me. It's like a totally new venue.
But I keep score on some of these things, like I want to see
people see wrongdoing, what I think is holding them
accountable. And then sure enough, my buddy
calls me this week and is like, hey, man, like don't do anything
about it, which doesn't work with me, by the way, but don't
do anything about it. But the Office of the Inspector
General as calling and they're compelling an interview on me
and they're, you know, asking my lawyer to call in and say what
my role is and quote, UN quote, leaking the photographs of these
people. Well, number one, screw you.
You're an FBI agent. That means you get that paycheck
because you have to go out in public like every other law
enforcement officer in this country.
And you are subject to being videoed, your subject being
talked to by somebody else. The news may show up.
Your, your name and your identity are not protected.
You are not a spy. As much as I thought it was
really funny to tell people I was a secret agent because
everything I did had the word secret written on it when I was
working counterintelligence. You're not a secret agent when
you work national security. You're a publicly paid, you
know, government official in pursuit of your duties and you
have 0 expectation of privacy on someone else's front porch, but
do not know what a ring Cam is. It's really not that hard.
That's the thing that you push the button and the picture was
taken. You activated the camera when
you went and rang it or when you stepped up on the porch.
So give me a break on that. My buddy Steve friend, who we'll
hear from in a little bit, he's going to come back and do our
crime and punishment segment, which I really love.
You know, he worked on an Indian Reservation and the, the, the
natives on the, the Native Americans in the tribe there set
up a Facebook page so they could throw spottings of his F-150
when he was driving around the rez because they wanted to be
able to keep track of where he was doing enforcement.
And, you know, and that's very common on Indian reservations,
things like that. It's like tracking down where
the feds are. Like everybody knows what the
Fed trucks are. They're the white F-150 that's
got a big camper shell on the back of it and it's collecting
evidence and it has the white guy in it that has a beard,
generally speaking. Like that's fairly common type
of dude. My buddy is one of those guys
right now in Montana. Like they totally know who you
are. They'll pull up and talk to you
and they'll go, hey, like, what's up white boy?
Like, it's really funny stuff. It's like one of the most
comical things about doing Indian Reservation work is that
people know exactly who you are. There's 0 anonymity and you're
like a local detective. Like you go out there and do
Major Crimes. So the idea that these people
think they have this expectation of privacy and nobody should be
publishing their photograph, like, first of all, you
suspended the man without pay. It's a photograph that he owns.
He can do whatever the heck he wants with it.
And what he did was put it into a whistleblower group and ask if
anybody knew who these clowns were.
And it turns out, yeah, somebody knew who those clowns were, and
they told me. So I took it on my own to go do
this. You know, he's, he's got no
blame, but he said he would defend my right to do it because
he's also a military veteran and he spent 20 years in the Army.
And he's a combat wounded guy like this.
This is the freedoms that we all fight for.
Like at this point, I'm more or less entered the the realm of
being a a member of the press. I think the argument could be
made. I talked to an FBI lawyer the
other day. He was a friend.
And he was like, yeah, you're protected under DOJ policy.
Like you are the press. You are doing a a podcast.
You are presenting information like I am now a SIM.
If the FBI is being honest about the way their policy works.
Because I've done more interviews with national level,
you know, TV shows and radio shows.
And I've talked to larger audiences than most TV reporters
get than any given two months of their lives.
You know, I've been on the Bongino show for what, 4 Times
Now on Fox News? It's not long hits, but it's
enough to talk to an audience of several million.
I've been on his radio show where they have three to four, 5
million people up. I've talked to Sebastian Gorka's
radio audience. I've spoken to Jesse Kelly.
I just spoke to to Vince Colonnades up in WMAL just
before, you know, taping this, which was my old radio station I
listened to when I drove in and out to work.
Literally audiences of millions of people are getting access to
what I have to say. And then whatever number of
people are thinking on Twitter and and so on.
So, you know, at this point, I'm, I'm more a citizen
journalist than I am an FBI agent.
I have been paid as an FBI agent since what May of this year.
Like I'm done with that as far as I can tell.
So if I choose to put something that's a public interest, which
is a couple of FBI agents violating policy and you know
that the response has been overwhelming.
I'm actually going to Scroll down and see how many
impressions we have because I think that's kind of
interesting. So as of right now, the tweet
that I, I sent out yesterday has 175,000 impressions and it says
41 people followed our account. It's actually like probably a
couple 100 at this point. But it's been liked, you know,
1400 + * / 600 of you or close to 600 of you have something,
something out. And 100 of you have have made
comments on what your position is.
And the position is overwhelmingly negative about
FBI agents showing up at your door in the same way that I felt
when the ATF showed up at my door.
Having feds at your door is a terrible feeling.
It's not good. So long and short of it is
you've got this big problem where we've got agents that are
willing to do what they're told and they don't think, is this
wrong or is this convenient? As I told somebody in an
interview earlier today, you know, the, the right choice is
always, it's, it's pretty simple to identify what it is, but it's
not always easy. And that's kind of the big
differential there. So I want to kind of talk
briefly too about what kind of stuff that leads to the kind of
people that are willing to keep doing and following orders
because it's the, you know, they, it's convenient and easy
is how you get to the people that suspended me.
And, and I'm going to do a little bit of a kind of AI don't
want to do a hitch job per SE, but I'm going to name check
somebody. So there's a woman named
Jennifer Moorer. She's the executive assistant
director of our human racist human resource department.
She's in charge of what do you call it?
The security division, SEC D is what we call it.
Sometimes it's hard to escape the FBI acronyms which are or,
or like weird little, like I told somebody something about
HUMINT or RUMINT the other day. I was talking to a cop and
RUMINT is rumor intelligence. It's like everything in the
Intel community is an INT. But anyhow, so she's in charge
of SEC D, our security division. She's in charge of the human
resources, which we call D and she's in charge of the training.
And my buddy who was in training division, who I won't name but
works over there in the training division, mentioned to me today
that they keep putting all the worst agents and supervisors
that have a terrible history. They put the worst people to go
to training. And now that's common in things
like the military, but there's no excuse in the FBI.
We should have the best people doing the training and it should
be a burden that they have to go and shoulder.
They have to step away from doing really good casework.
So they bring the next generation of really good agents
on. Instead, we bring in like just
garbage. The woman who was the the AD of
training when I was going through the Academy to me got up
and said the dumbest, most racist thing I've ever heard
anyone talk about. And her excuse was that her
husband is black. But she's famous for being kind
of a like a ditzy moron. She gets up in front of hundreds
of of trainees and says, you know, you always got to have
your head on a swivel. I went to a convenience store
the other day and, you know, it was me and my husband and my two
kids and, you know, these two black guys came in and they were
wearing hoodies and we thought they were casing the place.
And so we executed our protocol because we're law enforcement at
all times, which made me want to puke.
And she goes, you know, I took care of the kids and my
husband's a tactical guy. He went in to go like, make sure
nothing happened. And it's like, OK, what's the
payoff? Did they rob the store?
Did you interrupt the robbery? No, they were like 2 dudes
buying us a pack of cools and then they left because they're
just regular dudes. And she thinks that black people
all in, you know, are involved in crime when they have a
hoodie. And she was like, and I'm not
being racist because my husband's black, he has
dreadlocks. It's like this is an excuse
being racist. That's like actually the
definition of racist. You judge someone based on their
race. You're a moron.
You shouldn't be training anybody.
Like you shouldn't tell anybody what a tactical mindset is.
But that's the kind of people that teach at the FBI Academy.
And she was the assistant director.
That's an SES position. That's after she was the special
agent charged somewhere. And Kelly is just like a fool.
Like you hear stuff like that and serious people like me look
around and just go like, who who's in charge here?
Like God, I hope the field is not the same people.
But where did that person come from?
They came from the field. They came from a another SES
position and they came from another GS15 before that.
And so they, they got walked up the chain to be in charge.
But Jennifer Moore is one of these people.
In my opinion, she's just a disaster.
I think she was probably a nice lady when she went to the
Academy. And my friends that that went to
the Academy with her because I've got connections all the way
back going back down to the 80s. I've got, you know, I've got
connections and, you know, she was OK agent, they said.
And then something happened and she just something Phil told me
is that there's no GS15 in the government has ever said no to a
bad idea. And that's kind of where we're
at with the FBI too. It's like these people like the
bad idea fairy comes and it craps out like there's some
terrible decision and everybody who's on board with it gets
promoted. And all the people that say
like, hey, that's foolish. Have you ever actually done
that? That's a really bad idea.
Those people stay and and work cases.
So Jen Moore, you know, she came and she was the she was the
special agent in charge of the intelligence division
previously. She was in charge, She was in
charge of my division. She wrote me a $3000 check for
fantastic performance, whatever it was the the step below
getting like some sort of a commendation for the work that I
did. And I'm not saying I earned it.
I'm just saying I'm a pretty decent employee.
I'm not a scumbag and she knew it at the time too.
My boss, nobody, I, I don't know anybody that's ever seen
somebody get a $3000 cash award. We're big on like 500 dollars,
$250 here, but an on the spot award of $3000.
It's just not very common in the FBI.
And so I got 1, you know, whatever you know, you get half
of it because the federal government gets half the award
that the federal government is giving you, which is the dumbest
thing you've ever heard. But she had to award it to me.
So she did and then 18 months later she's pulling my pension
and my, my paycheck and she's pulling my, my security
clearance. And I remember very specifically
kind of like a great, you know, a little piece of like what kind
of person this is. She sat down with my, my squad,
which was a bunch of like, you know, I had a much bigger beard
at the time. And everybody works out,
Everybody's fit because everybody knows they may have to
fight. Like there's not a lot of
frontline FBI jobs where you're in front of bad guys or the
potential of bad guys and special operations group, the,
the security teams or the surveillance teams actually face
that possibility. I wouldn't say it's a very high
possibility on any given day, but we sat in crappy
neighborhoods and there's a chance you may have to like, you
know, do the right thing for yourself, defend yourself,
defend your teammate. We have protocols for that.
So she's sitting around this table with like, a bunch of,
like, dudes who work out prior military, prior law enforcement
experience. We had former federal air
marshals. We had, you know, a Marine Corps
infantry officer and an Army infantry officer, you know, two
former air marshals, 2 local cops, another prior Marine
enlisted. He would feel mad if I didn't
list that to him. And worked Indian Country.
You know, senior guys, like some of the guys are grey beards.
They've been there for a long time.
They're not faded by, you know, fazed by a lot of things.
But this is a relatively, I would say, serious group of
people that take themselves not too seriously, but are capable,
very capable. We had one really pretty gal who
was really nice and just total sweetheart.
She was like the only reason that we had any testosterone
checked there. But end of the day, and she was
at least fit and capable and, you know, rode a motorcycle and
wasn't like a, you know, some kind of a, you know, shirking,
shrinking Violet kind of deal. And this woman sits down, fails
to read the room completely. She's looking at my supervisor,
who's a former Ranger Battalion West Point grad and a, and also
has a beard and has like, you know, long tactical Jesus hair
and all this kind of thing. And she looks over to everybody
and she just goes, I want to get to know you guys so maybe we can
go around the table and talk about what your favorite dessert
is. And then immediately I was like,
when can I be let out on recess? And I've got, you know, a snack
pack because apparently we were in kindergarten right there with
a grown woman looking at a bunch of grown men who have beards and
deciding that talking about dessert as an icebreaker is an
appropriate discussion. It's absurd.
It's craziness. It's like, what's the thing
you're most proud of in the FBI? What's your biggest concern
about working this agency? What's the the thing that you've
seen executive management do that you hope that I don't like
any number of serious questions. Those I just came up with those
right now. I didn't think of them
beforehand. It takes almost no work to be a
serious human being, sit down around serious people and have a
serious discussion. This is completely unprocessable
to somebody in this position because they've been used to
being stroked and passed up and and being completely incompetent
and never being held accountable.
So that's the kind of person that we're talking about.
And, you know, it's like we felt floated up a concern in 2020
because some of you may have seen it.
There's a a thing I called Neil Team 6, which is a bunch of
people that were in the FBI that took a knee.
And they, and if you want to bring up the the Jimmy Gags
article from the New York Post. Yeah.
So all these FBI agents decided to take a knee because they were
confronted by some protesters who may or may not have been
angry. The videos that I've seen did
not indicate that they were like yelling something.
And then they all just dropped to a knee and genuflected on
behalf of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is crazy.
It's also a tactically unsound decision.
It's very, very dangerous for people with a weapon on them.
They endangered their lives and other lives and also the agents
that would come afterwards setting this unreasonable
expectation that we're going to do this political genuflection.
But in the meantime, that happened because people like Jen
Moore made the decisions to send us out on the streets and do
what I'm going to refer to as a presence patrol.
My friends who've been in the military are going to be able to
talk about this to you. But essentially, you show that
you are there by marching around or driving around in a convoy or
your vehicles and you show what like kind of a show of force.
This is who were here. You know, we're we're not going
to be cowed and we're happy to March around.
The silliness was is that the FBI was marching around on this
presence patrol and this is the summer of 2020 wearing body
armor, wearing just this like grab bag of non uniform.
So like this shirt would have flown, but so would AT shirt or
a wife beater or, you know, somebody's pink shoes or like it
was just it was absurdity. It's all silliness.
And so they're marching around in a mixed bag, grab bag armor.
Nobody's even matched up. We're not wearing hats or
helmets or the same thing. And we're marching around in an
area that the National Guard had already set up checkpoints in
under sandbags, like they were at every street corner in DC
that they were controlling. So we're walking around in what
I would call like a Green Zone where some protesters were.
And when a couple of them ran into a little bit of resistance
because they are indoor dogs and they have no business walking
around in, you know, overt body armor, they got yelled at, and
they didn't know what to do. So they dropped to a knee.
And it's really scary. So during all that nonsense, you
know, we asked this question. It's a serious question by
serious people who are looking at a unserious reaction of the
FBI, which was under Bill Barr at that time.
This is still Trump time, if you remember.
And we said, you know, can you assure us that we are doing
something about Black Lives Matter protests that are turning
violent and Antifa, which had obviously infiltrated some of
these action groups. And I don't know what the Venn
diagram looks like for crossover, but it's there.
There's no doubt in my mind about that same type of
attitudes. So, you know, we've got this,
this really nasty kind of hybridized violent slash loud
threatening protests that are going on and what are we going
to do about it? You know, they burned Saint
John's Church. My team was deployed to that the
day after they burned it. And we were kind of helping
stand the line with Secret Service.
There's nothing Dumber than taking a bunch of covert, which
is what the FBI calls it, but I would call it low visibility
surveillance agents in vans and and vehicles that we spend a
bunch of money to keep their names off the FBI's registry.
So if you were to, you know, one of the things that the FBI is
charged with his public corruption and we have to do
investigations into dirty cops. Well, dirty cops have a lot of
really cool tools like they can run license plates and find out
that you're a fed and they can find out that your vehicle is
assigned to the Federal Bureau Investigation or Office of
Personnel Management, which is the federal government's kind of
grab bag or the GSA. And so if you're going to go do
investigations and do surveillance on cops that are
doing things that are wrong and you don't you, I mean, you don't
want them doing that. And you do want the FBI being
able to do that or somebody has got to be able to check this
authority of, of dirty cops. You spend a lot of money to
build fake shell corporations and these kind of things so that
we're not immediately visible to what's going on when we're doing
these operations. It took all of our vehicles and
had us drive out and punch it right in front of the White
House lawn on the north lawn and stand right next to Saint John's
Church and set up like a perimeter with a bunch of Secret
Service uniform divisions. These are, you know, they spend
a lot of money and time setting these things up and then they're
ready to go burn them. So we had, you know, no license
plates. And we're trying to do the right
thing to keep these vehicles from being what we call burned,
which is to say exposed because they show up on social media.
Like all that money's down the tube.
Once they've been identified as a Fed, if somebody knows who you
are, it's over. They got to re, you know, rebook
it, sell that thing off, move it somewhere else, get a new
license plate, whatever. And and so we asked this
Jennifer Moore, we said, look, what is the FBI doing about this
problem? It's a real problem.
We're experiencing this real problem, and we have real
concerns. And her answer was, you know,
I'll get back to you. That's a fair answer, whatever.
And when she got back, she said basically Chris Wray wasn't
going to be going after Antifa because he wanted to keep his
job, which to me told me two things.
Number one, she sort of agreed that Antifa is kind of like, you
know, keep away status. And she wasn't particularly
appalled by that. You know, she was back in the
management. The management made a decision
and she's behind it. Once again.
Nobody gets above the GS15 level in the federal government by
disagreeing with bad ideas. They have to sign off on
everything. So she did.
And that's the kind of person she is.
And she's the kind of lady who took my security clearance.
Like I'm pretty confident she came into the office drunk.
I have several credible sources that told me she came into the
office drunk during 2020 during the the pandemic, because she
was working from home and drinking red wine.
And she came in and pet some of the support employees.
I've never done that. That's crazy to me.
Like, why would that person be able to tell me that I'm not fit
for the job? But that's the FBI we're
leaving, we're dealing with right now.
Sorry about that obsession about it too.
In any case, I will encourage you guys to to follow if you
want to see some of these fun dumps that, you know, I'm
picking a fight with the FBI because I think it's our
information, ours being the American peoples.
I believe in a thing that I'm calling radical transparency and
I'm hoping that it kind of, you know, breaks down some of the
rat's nest that exist. There's not a lot of people that
are willing to do it. It's not a very comfortable
position to be in. And we're about to join another
guy who was willing to do that thing.
We're going to be bringing on my buddy C friend shortly.
He's been doing a thing on on Twitter that is called, he's
called it the OPR Files. It's an honor of our friend Matt
Taibbi, who's been doing the Twitter Files.
This is a just another piece of that radical transparency.
It's that that dump that's going to get you.
You know, first of all, they're not going to smile about it.
But we are putting out things that I think the American people
have a right to know. And that is the failings of the
FBI and, and what was done about it because there's not, there's
not a lot of information that is publicly available to you all.
So this is a very inside look that that Steve gives.
And it's been part of our crime and punishment segment.
But moreover, he's now sharing it over here on Twitter 'cause
there's a lot more thousands of people that can see it.
So, Steve, welcome back my friend.
Oh, thank you very much for the chance to be here.
Yeah, bud. Hey, I want to, I want to open
with kind of a new thing to Phil.
You, I don't know if you've got the FlightAware app, but I'm
going to let you kind of give some commentary on on where in
the world is Chris Ray and what has he been up to.
Well, I mean, you, you come up with this wonderful idea that we
should just look at the tail number on the, the G5 that he
flies around in. So we got this nifty, we had
this nifty account on Twitter. Unfortunately, he can't post
live. He can only post in retrospect
because I guess it's a security issue for, for important people
like Christopher Wray. So I did pull up the
flightaware.com on the the tail number for the director's jet
and looked over the last week of travel.
The one note that you you did point out was any time that the
the plane departs from Manassas is a major indicator that
Christopher Ray's on it because I guess he doesn't like to make
the the 20 minute commute to, to Reagan.
Is that correct? It's the flip of that, actually.
So whenever it goes from Manassas to Reagan, it picks him
up and, and and that's just comes from you not having to
work in the swamp in DC, but essentially Manassas is a little
bit further out to the West and it's a drive and you got to go
out there. What what's the, what's the
highway, Phil? I forget what it's called now.
66. 66 I knew it was 60 something.
So if you take 66 and you got to drive out of DC, you you get
stuck in traffic all the way in Arlington, which is, you know,
just outside of it. And then you drive and drive and
drive and you end up getting outside of Fairfax County and
you end up in the next county over, which is going to be
Prince William. Ask where Manassas airport is.
So rather than do that, and by the way, he's not driving right,
somebody else is driving him. He's got a motorcade, you know,
he, he has the Jetfly and land for 1000 bucks every touchdown
at DCA, which is Reagan National Airport, people who fly in there
know. So it's closer to DC for him.
It's very convenient. I'm thinking he doesn't get
billed for that little, that little hop skipping up and jump
it makes. But, you know, that's just a
taxpayer's expense, I guess. So the only the only if, if
that's the case and the only time that I I see it leaving
from Reagan was a flight to Detroit, MI.
So fun times for the director. Probably doing a, you know, a
hop over to assess the SAC in Detroit.
I know they got the new SAC there after Steve Dantuano left
after the Whitmer case, so there's probably making sure
that they're keeping things up tight and, you know, no new
violent domestic abuse cases from the case agents like Trask
and and and. No wife beating and no wife
beating. Maybe he was checking in on
making sure there's no pro-life clinics that are getting out of
control there so they could go ahead and.
But definitely ensuring the entrapment cases are at an all
time high, we got to be making sure we hit at least a half
dozen of those every fiscal year.
Correct. And so, and then, and it looks
like then outside of leaving from, from Reagan, a couple of
other flights, but they were overseas.
Those could have been just like evidence runs or something like
that. It looks like they went down to
Dominican Republic, which I don't know, seems like kind of a
good gig if you're making an evidence run for the weekend and
Greece for a day. So not too much travel over this
this week, but we are going to the holidays.
So maybe he's holding that back. And well, I'm sure we'll see him
the Adirondacks here soon. Sure, sure enough.
So we'll do. We'll do where in the world is
Chris Ray when we do these podcasts and have Steve call and
do it. And then I, I hyped your your
OPR file. Give us if I missed anything.
I think you heard me on the intro coming in.
I saw you logging in. Give us any background I might
have missed. And then let's let's launch into
one or whatever you got for me today.
All right, so, yeah, I'm just pushing it out on truth and on
Twitter. I want as many people to see it
as I can. I'm really just trying to draw
this stark contrast between, you know, today's day 86 for me.
I assume you lost con, you know, count of how many days you've
been gone. It's 200 something.
So short of a sort of a summary dismissal, I think we are well
in excess of of anything that that we see here.
And it's for things like in your case, not putting AQ tip up your
nose and for me, accessing the employee handbook.
But I guess that's far worse than sexual harassment and, you
know, failure to safeguard your weapon, all that and the like.
So I'm pushing that out. And hopefully, you know, that
catches on with the with folks because they, they get a chance
to see it. These are super OPSEC within the
Bureau and they're not for public for public dissemination,
which is isn't to me just a miscarriage of justice because I
think this is worthy of the public's knowledge.
Yeah, not only that, I mean, there's nothing that's law
enforcement sensitive here. There's nothing.
It's only embarrassment to the FBI.
And so the idea that they would hide these files and make them
non distributable is really the FBI covering for the FBI because
they need to keep the reputation of the FBI, which at this point
is somewhat trashed. What is the the hashtag that
people can search to to pull that up?
#Opr files. So spell that out.
OPRFILES. OK, so just spelled out they can
read how many of you posted so far?
So I've done it over the weekend.
So today I came up with installment #9 was the last one.
And you know, just only so far I've only worked through one
month's worth of the quarterly emails, so a lot left in the
tank. Yeah, and as you kind of shared
with us and and I'm sure the FBI headquarters people that are
required to monitor us are, are quaking in their boots to know
you pulled 4/4 monthly emails or quarterly emails, 4 quarterly
emails for a period of five years.
So 2020 or so of these these lists.
And we are through one of them at this point.
And the things that we've seen so far are, you know, abuse of a
spouse, choking, knocking somebody unconscious in front of
your children. We've seen having sexual affairs
with confidential human sources and lying about it to your own
spouse who worked for the Bureau as well, which is a cool move to
do. We've seen some alcohol, which
is pretty standard, the kind of classic abuse of alcohol and
then abuse of local cops once you've been corrupted for your
alcohol problem. That's kind of a real classic
FBI move that wrapping the view car around the tree is 1 we have
yet, but I know that there's probably one of those in there.
So, you know, just the kind of the sundry, what you call them
low lights, I think it's a really good way of describing
it. Low lights of FBI behavior who
are normal human beings and and, you know, do all kinds of
screwed up things like anybody else.
The difference is, is that, you know, they have the standard to
maintain, which is that they are kind of above, you know, any
kind of scrutiny like this and people still fail at it.
And then the FBI doesn't want anybody to know about it, which
is where I think you and I have the real problem with it.
Oh exactly, and and and don't miss today's latest dump which
was the the person who was molesting the 8 year old family
member on multiple occasions. So, you know, we do run the
gambit from booze Broads and view cards to pedophiles.
Right. And and of course, the other
thing we notice is that they don't tell us whether or not
that was referred for criminal prosecution, which should have
been what you LED with in my book.
I I mean, I think you feel the same way.
Yep. So just two for you today.
Still in the same same quarter of the e-mail.
These will be put out on the hashtag, so maybe it'll taste.
This will be for, you know, behind the paywall, if, for lack
of a better term, for folks to encourage them to listen to the
podcast or they can wait for me to post it the following couple
of days. So producer Phil Kyle Serafin be
prepared for the first. It is a violation of source
guidelines, falsified web TA, lack of candor not underoath,
and unprofessional conduct. So for Bangor employee tasked to
CHS with performing operational activities without first
obtaining required approval from an outside agency.
The CHS was on probation with the State Department of
Corrections and employee was required to obtain the
permission from the DOC Commissioner.
Prior to operating the CHS employee falsely entered on
official FBI form source opening communication that the employee
had obtained the required permission.
The employee also falsified web TA records to reflect that the
employee had worked when in fact he had not.
The employee lacked candor when questioned by the supervisor
about completing work assignments.
The employee also transported spouse and minor child in a
government leased vehicle. Yeah and finally the employee
engaged in unprofessional conduct by playing video games
and watching ESPN on a personal cell phone during work hours,
including at a search site when local law enforcement officials
sought employees assistance in aggravation.
Employee had been an FBI employee for a little more than
a year and repeatedly engaged in dishonest communications with
the supervisor. Integrity is an FBI core value.
Employee lost the trust of the supervisor and Co workers so I
think it's a fair to come play but give me your guess.
Oh, this person's toast. Yeah, that's a dismissal.
Summarily dismissed before they could even resign.
What do you think, Phil? Well, yeah, I mean, it's
definitely a dismissal and I'm wondering if they were even off
probation, which means it was even easier to get rid of them.
So I'm going to say some dismissal.
Definitely dismissal. Not summer dismissal, just
regular dismissal. But you know that's the only
thing too. If this was a probationary guy I
don't know why they bother with the OPR.
They should have just walked him out.
And, and we're going to have a guest that comes on in maybe the
next week or so who's a friend of mine.
And he was walked out because he didn't wear a suit jacket to
court for an initial when the case agent, yeah, when the case
agent was probably wearing torn jeans and a freaking T-shirt.
So that that I mean, this is the seriousness of the FBI.
Like we, we do an OPR for this person who clearly was just a
screw up and a real cop. And, and I say that because he
was a cop and he is a cop again, you know, gets walked out for
not wearing a jacket over his freaking shirt and tie.
It's, it's just, it's absurdities on top of
absurdities. All right?
Give me #2 all. Right #2 Supervisory employee
accepted gifts from a vendor. A company that bids on contracts
with and has received contracts from the FBI.
Oh, it gets it gets a little more spicy.
It's a little. More.
Employee attended 2 professional sporting events as a guest of
the vendor. The cost of tickets was in
excess of the $20 limit imposed by the ethics policy.
A second vendor saw the employee with the first vendor at one of
the games and complained to the FBI that the employees
association with the first vendor was the reason that the
second vendor did not win the contract with the FBI.
The employees actions created the appearance of impropriety
and favoritism. The employee also accepted a day
of shooting at a shooting range. So this guy like guns, this is a
problem. And failed to pay his full share
for the arranged time and ammunition which exceeded $20.
Failed to seek advice from the FBI's Office of Integrity and
Compliance. All right.
Which I forgot. I forgot they have that.
We have that. OK, Yeah, we do know that's
real. That's definitely real.
It seems like it should be something for Twitter but OK in
in mitigation employee has a positive performance history and
no prior disciplinary history. Aggravation employee supervisor
held to a higher standard, employees actions from the FB is
reputation blah blah blah. Your guess is please.
I think that he was he or she was promoted immediately and is
now a assistant director, probably in charge of some kind
of sensitive relationship with like another government agency.
This sounds a lot like this is not the right one, but it sounds
like the lady who took the sports tickets and then got
charge of the FB is relationship with the CIA because why not?
I I honestly think this person probably got almost nothing and
and then promoted. But Phil, what do you think?
I'm going to go with 30 days, you know, definitely not.
Nothing worse than that. But you know, I mean, there's
got to be some kind of punishment.
Yep, 14 day suspension then probably retired and got a chief
counsel position over a social media committee, no?
No, no 14 day suspension and then promote it knowing that
this person was compromised and is willing to bend ethics like
they become a senior manager. That's the way we do it here.
All right, well I appreciate you sharing that so people can check
out the OPR files on your two handles.
You are on Truth at Real under score, Steve Friend and then on
Twitter if you want to see it there, it's at Real Steve
Friend. No punctuation, just to keep
things spicy. Once again, I will be the only
person who can keep track of this stuff because I care.
I care deeply. I appreciate it, man.
Oh, and I will say one more thing.
I'm about to hit send on this on Twitter.
I am going to be putting out that I am keep it.
So I am going to be throwing my hat in the ring.
I volunteer as tribute to be the speaker of the House.
My only conditions are that FBI whistleblowers are the top
priority for the Judiciary Committee and Kyle Seraphin is
going to be my Sergeant at arms. So look for that.
Sold. I'm in.
Do you have any preferred calibers that you would like to
list instead of pronouns? All the guns with.
Your candidacy. All the guns.
He says all the guns we're going to go up to like large multi
million 120mm shells all the way down to 22.
We got the funds brother, we just printed.
It OK, yeah print the money and then we can just give it to your
Ukraine or not and we're all good Yep sounds good.
Hey, thanks for sharing the OPR files, people.
Check it out. Go look in there and you will
find the eternal Vadnais that you expected and all the
disappointments that are out there.
Thanks for joining us for the Kyle Seraphin Show.
I guess we have settled on this name Against my will.
Producer Phil has started calling it that.
He even sends me text messages that I try to figure out what
they say. And he says, hey, man, when's
the next TKSS? And I'm wondering what in God's
name is TKSS? It is the Kyle Seraphin show.
He actually got us like a terrible picture that people
told me makes me look constipated.
I tend to agree. My wife hates it, but it is what
it is. We'll get a better, we'll get a
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Beanpod. Yeah, Pod Bean, pretty much
anywhere you download your typical podcast.
We're on all of them now. That's right.
And if you want to go look, we're also the video versions on
rumble. So if you want to see my smiling
face and if you want to see the the highly sweet guisely
automatics AR15 in the background with a dead air
suppressor on it with a what do I got there?
I got a LVPO and a reptilian mount and I got a one to six
vortex razor HD. If you guys are getting nerded
out, I got a cloud defensive light on there that throws out
massive, massive lumens and serious candela power.
That's, that's how I roll. And I got an arm bar on top
because you never know when you might have to shoot close.
That's, that's actually my FBI duty weapon that I bought for
myself. And it had, can I just say it
had a gay FBI badge on the side of it.
It was really embarrassing. It was just kind of like screen
printed on there. So I, I, I spray painted it with
a rattle can, as many of you folks who have been in the
military know how to do. I rattle can that sucker up and
they told me that was a possible OPR offense.
Coloring your gun to make it fit the desert backdrop is against
the FBI policy by the way. It's not in the FBI policy.
I would be willing to go to the mat with anybody.
They said that it was resurfacing the weapon and I, as
someone who has been paid to do Sera coding and Dura coding and
KG gun coding and have dozens of weapons under my under my belt
when it comes to baking on finishes that are micro
ceramics, I would go ahead and take I would take issue with
their judgement and I'm willing to go to court for that too.
So anyway, that is a straight hour that we've done here on the
Kyle Seraphin show. Like subscribe, give us a funny
review. I'll read 1 next time.
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And we really appreciate you listening it.
It's a nice voice for the agent community that is coming to me.
And stay tuned for some really exciting interviews coming up.
We've got some fun ones. So thanks again, folks.
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