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The FBI's Leaders 'Have No Idea What They're Doing'

A casualty of Trump’s purge speaks out.

He joined the FBI in 2009, he told me, because he saw it as the “best vehicle” through which he could help “protect both United States interests in the world and the rule of law on the domestic front.” When he and I first met, sometime around the beginning of the first Trump administration, Feinberg was working on counterintelligence investigations against China. “The sad thing,” Feinberg told me, is that these exiles began their government careers “with the purest and noblest of intentions.” They’re exactly the kind of public servants you’d want steadying the tiller at a time like this, and therefore exactly the people whom Patel and Bongino sought to be rid of. “It’s particularly concerning to me, as someone who dedicated his professional career to combating the Chinese Communist Party and all of its tentacles, to see resources and efforts diverted away from hostile foreign intelligence services and other serious threats to the homeland to focus on minor immigration status offenses,” Feinberg wrote in his recent essay.

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