280. From Leaks to Lies: 50 Reasons Trust in FBI Leadership Has Faded
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As Kash Patel takes the helm as FBI Director, he struggles to overcome a decades-long loss of reputation when it comes to FBI management.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Accusen here. |
| 0:06.4 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Today, from leaks to lies, 50 reasons trust in FBI leadership has faded. |
| 0:18.0 | The FBI has many successes to its credit and a league of honest hardworking agents. That's how it's |
| 0:25.8 | supposed to work. Unfortunately, the agency has also been plagued by scandals and controversies |
| 0:32.3 | that have rocked the public's faith and its ability to consistently operate as an honest law enforcement and |
| 0:38.8 | intelligence agency. As Cash Patel takes the helm as new FBI director, he has stated that he |
| 0:45.5 | plans to dig deep into systemic corruption and incompetence to reinvent the agency. He has a big |
| 0:53.0 | job. Today in this podcast, we're going to go over what I think |
| 0:57.0 | is a relative short list of 50 FBI missteps and abuses that have shaken public confidence |
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| 1:37.0 | First, James Baker as an allegedly illegal leaker. Former FBI Chief Counsel James Baker was reportedly involved in leaking sensitive |
| 1:48.0 | information while in office, including to the media about the Trump-Russia probe, yet he faced |
| 1:54.5 | no prosecution despite internal reviews suggesting misconduct. This fueled distrust in FBI leadership's integrity. I will tell you that on the |
| 2:04.0 | inside, at the time FBI agents, at least ones I spoke to, fully expected Baker was in huge trouble |
| 2:11.5 | and going to face prosecution, but he never did. Incredibly, he went on to become Twitter's Deputy General Counsel and was |
| 2:22.4 | involved in what later became known as the Twitter files. It was exposed how the FBI had many |
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