The Wrecking of the FBI

The David Frum Show vor 1 Jahr

The former FBI official Peter Strzok on how President Donald Trump is destroying U.S. counterintelligence from the inside. PLUS: Why Trump’s shutdown of the Epstein probe could cost him.

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On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum
opens with a warning about President Donald Trump’s decision to
shut down the conversation around the federal investigation into
Jeffrey Epstein. David explains why Trump’s move has triggered
backlash from parts of his own base and why it reveals a deeper
political fracture inside the MAGA movement. Then David is joined
by the former FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, who
shares his insights on what’s happening at the bureau during
Trump’s second term. Strzok, who is still engaged in a lawsuit with
the government over his 2018 firing, explains how Trump loyalists
such as the FBI’s director, Kash Patel, and its deputy director,
Dan Bongino, are dismantling the agency’s national-security
functions: purging experts, sidelining investigations, and leaving
the United States dangerously vulnerable to terrorism, foreign
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