Is a Domestic Cartel Attack Imminent?
Mike Force Podcast
Mike Glover
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Chris Piehotais a 25 yr FBI Supervisory Special Agent who startedhis career as a street-level Special Agent and completed his career as one of the FBI's most senior executives. Chris worked in a number of capacities to include global national security and technical operations, while also leading international public safey and security programs. Chris is the author of the book, "Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew", which chronicles his FBI career and gives readers an inside look at how the FBI changed, for better and worse, after the tragedy on September 11, 2001. Readers can learn what FBI leadership used to be, as taught by the old breed of FBI Special Agent and also see how the FBI lost its way. Readers will gain insight into how the FBI can be reset and reforged to once again be deserving of the trust and respect of the American people. "Wanted" is available at Amazon in print, ebook, and audio book formats.
Chris leads his own leadership and security consulting firm, YF5 Solutions, LLC, and can be contacted via email at: cpiehota@yf5solutions.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Chris, thanks for making the trip, man. |
| 0:10.9 | Pleasure to be here. Mike, good to see again. |
| 0:12.6 | Good seeing you. We're catching up on all the FBI drama. |
| 0:16.4 | There's a lot of drama to go around right now these days. |
| 0:19.2 | How are you feeling being retired? I mean, it's got to be weird, right? |
| 0:22.5 | Because I know you're a kind of guy who wants to fix problems, but you're also retired now. |
| 0:29.3 | So what's the dilemma for you now? |
| 0:31.7 | Watching what's going on, not being able to help, not being able to comment. |
| 0:35.8 | And, you know, what's interesting is some of the same, |
| 0:38.9 | I would say, decisions are being made now that were made after 9-11 that didn't turn out very well. |
| 0:45.7 | It's hard to offer guidance or support because all of us are gone from that time period. |
| 0:52.1 | So the new leadership is struggling through some things and |
| 0:56.1 | they're kind of learning by fire and it's a bad way to do things right now. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, I feel like institutionally, you guys, kind of the old guard, have a lot of legacy |
| 1:08.4 | knowledge that's very important that overcame a lot of political issues. |
| 1:14.8 | And you guys are the most resilient generation and class of agents. |
| 1:19.2 | And now you're all retired. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, I don't know if we're the most resilient, but I would say that we did weather some pretty significant storms after 9-11 and some other events leading |
| 1:29.6 | up to 9-11, Oklahoma City bombing, then the 93 World Trade Center bomb. So there was a progression |
| 1:35.4 | of events and then that massive change environment after 9-11 for the FBI. We weathered a lot of storms, |
| 1:43.4 | you know, and then the guys now who are there in charge |
| 1:46.8 | are weathering their own storms, but seeing some decisions being made that maybe we could |
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