Here's the first thing you need to know about Michael Feinberg. He does not like the

director of the FBI, Cash Patel. He's a clown.

This is somebody who is only willing to engage with intellectual arguments in as much as they will help him force his political vision on others.

Michael spent 16 years at the FBI himself, and he has done the research when it comes to Cash Patel.

I read his books.

It was clear his name was always in the mix for becoming the director if Trump won the

2024 election.

So I read government gangsters.

I read his three children's books.

And it became very apparent that this is not a serious thinker.

You might not be surprised to learn that Michael left government service a few months back.

But with Cash Patel testifying in front of Congress this week, I thought he could offer useful

insight into what's been going on at the Bureau.

Long story short, he knows a whole lot of people who, like him, have left.

Almost everybody I knew wanted to stay in and hold the line as best we could.

But the loss of state capacity in terms of our ability to protect people from both

crime and national security threats is vanishing at an alarming rate if it's not already gone.

Michael describes a bureau whose mission has been warped from the top down.

Many agents have been reassigned to work on immigration issues, for instance.

Which is fine, in theory.

Except that means there are other investigations that have been abandoned.

Michael even discovered that some agents who were riding along with Homeland Security

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