This guy seems to be jockying to be hired to help fix the FBI. Kash should consider him.

Chris Piehota is a retired FBI agent who was SES when he retired. He was on Mike Glovers podcast #138 (use your prefered app) and will probably be on others soon.

Spot on assesment of what the FBI has become and how to fix it.

Kash has good experience, but is going to need a trusted team (as will all of Trumps nominees, esp if they lack experience).

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He talks about when the FBI was focused on law enforcement, what changed, how DEI and woke policies led to a downward spiral and politization.

The fix is not very complicated. Kash has to get rid of anyone who will try to undermine him

Also... he has been making the podcast rounds

Anyone for FBI director NOT living in a 200** zip code.

InfantryAg said:

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This guy seems to be jockying to be hired to help fix the FBI. Kash should consider him.

Chris Piehota is a retired FBI agent who was SES when he retired. He was on Mike Glovers podcast #138 (use your prefered app) and will probably be on others soon.

Spot on assesment of what the FBI has become and how to fix it.

Kash has good experience, but is going to need a trusted team (as will all of Trumps nominees, esp if they lack experience).

edit to add:
He talks about when the FBI was focused on law enforcement, what changed, how DEI and woke policies led to a downward spiral and politization.

The fix is not very complicated. Kash has to get rid of anyone who will try to undermine him

Also... he has been making the podcast rounds

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I listened to the whole podcast. I would personally prefer that this guy not be hired by Kash to do anything. He should be kept far away. Piehota is a company man who loves the institution and cannot bring himself to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Time and time again he and Glover dance around the edges of the issue (CORRUPTION and POLITICIZATION) and cannot bring themselves to say the words.

Piehota talks a lot about Comey being an affable guy whose major failing was opening up a direct line of communication for for junior agents to submit complaints to senior leadership. He never mentions Comey's personal and deliberate attempts to entrap the elected President in a hoax and knowingly treating political propaganda as if it was intelligence product.

He gives Wray a complete pass and thinks he's a good guy who was just not told the truth by the Deputy Director and EADs i.e. Piehota's former peers.

He casts these and many other Stasi tactics as "gross incompetence" but will not admit that the FBI leadership made the institution an organ of the Democrat party. If asked, I am pretty sure that he would not agree with any suggestion that Wray should have been fired for obstructing Congress (every single time he's called to testify).
If Piehota can't bring himself to name the disease, he shouldn't be on the team that has to exorcise the demons or destroy the possessed. Piehota would take the side of the FBI versus the Constitution every time based on his apologetics in this interview.

He has some important insights but as an SES he was either looking the other way or complicit with the corruption of Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Priestap, Page, and Wray.

Right. There are definitely going to be weasels who pretend to be open to change who will sabotage all efforts to clean up the agency. I'd rather err on the side of firing every single agency employee in DC than trusting some of them.

Valid concerns.

IMO he is being pragmatic. We all know the corruption, he's focused on getting the agency focused on law enforcement and nit doing politics. If he just comes out parroting Kash, he doesn't really add any value.

Being SES is concerning, but if I was finishing out my career and in charge of the Science and Technology branch, I could just focus on that. He retired early because of what the agency has become.

Kash is going to need someone with this insider knowledge to effectively change the culture. Maybe it's not this guy, hence I didn't say Kash should hire him, just consider him.

Whoever he hires, he can always fire them.

Also a valid concern. This guy has gone over the top if he's just being a weasel.

As he stated in the interview, the GS14s and 15s are the issue. These are your SACs and RACs, the agents in charge of offices. Every office is a reflection of them. What work gets focused on (and what doesn't), and most importantly the culture. This is where the problem requires work. This is where the long term solutions will take place.

Fire all the top (DC) management, but then you need to have good non-political mid-level management for the long term.

An outsider is not going to be able to navigate that without some insider knowledge.

Obbiously Kash needs to vet whoever he hires, and keep good oversight.