The person who belonged to Elon Musk’s Spacex and a former assistant to one of the most difficult critics of Congress at the FBI working as advisers to the office manager, told four FBI officials at the NBC News.
The current and former officials said that the two of at least four of the four people were brought to the FBI to advise its manager. At least two new advisers are retired FBI agents, including one, Tom Ferguson, who worked as an assistant to MP Jim Jordan, Rao, a strong Trump ally and FBI’s Voice Bureau.
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It is not clear who facilitated the arrival of new advisers, nor the areas they focus on. A spokesman for the Cash Patel, the choice of President Trump for the FBI director, did not respond to a request for suspension. The FBI was not. Patel confirmation session will be held on the Senate on Thursday.
Former Federal Bureau officials said new advisers raised fears that individuals with relations with party political figures will help in managing the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country. While some FBI officials who have seen this arrangement hope that this will accelerate required reforms, others have been afraid of a compromise of the office’s traditions for decades, which is to get rid of politics.
Unlike the Ministry of Justice, the FBI does not have politicians appointed unlike its manager, which was chosen by the president for what is supposed to be for 10 years. It is very similar to the CIA, almost anyone working in the FBI is a professional civil employee.
This structure was created after the death of the FBI director since 1972 EGP. Edgar Hoover, who had decades-long policy clients, surveyed secret leaders and political groups-from the John Bersh extremist Association to Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King.
“He told strangers that there to advise the Federal Investigation Office on how to reform itself, including sending headquarters to the stadium.
He said, “This is completely required.” “Things are centered around the headquarters and when the headquarters are in the capital, the natural thing that happens in the capital is that things become political.”
However, D’Amico said, it is not normal for you to have individuals who have relationships with partisan political figures on the seventh floor, as FBI employees call the manager’s office.
“This should be done very carefully,” said Damco. “How does this driving chain work? You must be very careful because it does not become like a Russian political officer on Russian nuclear branches and impose partisan discipline.”
New advisers For the FBI director
Gregory Mentzer, another former agent of the Federal Investigation Office, is currently working in the office of the FBI director, according to His profile LinkedIn. Mentzer, who retired the position of FBI in 2018 and worked as a firearms coach in the FBI academy, simply lists his affiliation as the “Office of the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation”. Mentzer did not respond to a message sent via LinkedIn.
Ferguson, retired FBI undersecretary and former assistant of MP Jordan, recounts himself as a “senior political advisor, the director of the manager,” His profile LinkedIn. Ferguson, whom NBC News asked via LinkedIn about his role in the FBI, asked that he “returns home to help.”
Ferguson said In the LinkedIn post He was leaving his position in the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives to serve “in the new administration”. He described his work there as “an honor for life,” and added, “On the equal footing, she was an opportunity to work with Jim Jordan, a legend of my great condition to O.”
Ferguson referred questions to a spokesman for the House of Representatives, who declined to comment. CNN previously mentioned Ferguson employment.
Jordan, Chairman of the House of Representatives Judicial Committee, accused the FBI regularly, without indicating specific evidence, as a corrupt tool for the Biden administration. He claimed that the FBI helped suppress a story about the laptop of Hneter Biden and avenge the informants.
Jordan says that the FBI has participated in political motivated investigations from Trump, and former director James Come and his major assistants sorted for criticism.
Jordan is also an audio supporter of Trump’s candidate, Patel, who invited the FBI “One of the most cunning and powerful weapons in the deep state,” A reference to party allegations that job officials have been secretly drew to undermine Trump.
Ferguson has strongly trade in some of the most conflict issues in war in LinkedIn, including discussions about race and sex.
Ferguson wrote in a publication in 2021, which Disney Corporation criticizes its position, “Wake up”: “The vast majority of Americans, including my family, are tired of the presence of a false narration on the” systemic racism “that forced our throat,” Ferguson wrote in the publication of 2021 criticizing Disney Company for its “wake up” position.
according to News reportSocial media publications, Ferguson participated in the school’s board protests in Fairfax County, Virginia, some of which received national coverage.
In 2022, it is Talk to Fox News In protesting his objections to changes in sex policies, saying that he found it “very inappropriate” for schools “to address these politically charged buttons, very dynamic, at such an early age.”
Jordan also published exaggerated claims on the memo of the Ministry of Justice, which was supposed to allow the Federal Investigation Office to help educational areas with threats, as some stated that the federal authorities were taking parents to be local terrorists.
“The office was never in the field of investigation into the speech discourse or the police in the meetings of the school board or anywhere else, and we will never be.”
The FBI is currently leading a manager designed by Trump-a professional office employee who runs his office in Newark-while a vote is awaited on Patel. WRAY recently resigned after Trump made it clear that he would replace him.
Anxiety among former officials
Former FBI officials have told NBC News that the office is needed for reform and modernization, especially in the digital age with the growth of electronic threats from China and other competitors.
A former FBI official, who asked not to be identified so that he could speak frankly, said that the allegations that the office had been assigned to exaggerate.
He said: “I get the counter -match:” The place has spoiled to a large extent that he is very politicized, we need his heart upside down and fix everything. “But give me an example of the place that the organization made a mistake … Where is the evidence? It is a solution for a problem. ”
A former official of the FBI (the FBI), who asked not to be named, said, citing fears of revenge, that the modernization is necessary in the office, but he expressed concern about political loyalty tests.
He said: “There is a difference between the reforms that make the office more effective and efficient,” in exchange for an ideological implantation unilaterally and the purification of people who do not share this point of view. ”
Frank Veglosi, a NBC news shareholder who retired as head of the FBI department after a long profession, including many high positions, said the arrangement was a problem in his face.
“We must all support any attempt to make health reforms in the country’s most powerful law enforcement agency,” Fegiozi said, but he warned, “There is a serious perception that this relates to politics much more than imposing the laws of our countries.”
