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Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI

My resignation from the FBI. 

Probationary employees, many of whom only recently earned their badges, called me frequently or came by my office in near-panic about how they would provide for their families if fired from the FBI; the early days of assisting immigration enforcement efforts made some veteran agents nervous, as it was not a government priority to which our agency traditionally contributed bodies or resources, and it involved scaling a steep learning curve. And the larger climate in the Bureau was undeniably toxic: senior executives were being forced out, our leadership was taking on investigations that were clearly political in character, and they were turning over the names of agents who had worked on Jan. 6 cases to the Justice Department for who knows what reason. The congestive heart failure which ultimately felled him decades later appeared shortly after I joined the FBI, and during his last days in hospice—when a steady stream of painkillers loosened his hold on reality and his memory began to slip—he never once forgot, and even remarked upon, the fact that I had recently begun training for the role of Special Agent.

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