‘Politically Captured Agency’: Why A Former FBI Agent Wants to Defund the Bureau
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, August 23rd. I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:10.6 | Today my colleague Elizabeth Mitchell is sitting down with a friend of the |
| 0:14.4 | Daily Signal FBI whistleblower Steve Friend. Steve shares his experience |
| 0:20.3 | within the FBI and the corruption that he saw within the Bureau. |
| 0:25.4 | And what exactly his journey was to reaching that point of becoming a whistleblower. |
| 0:30.7 | You might remember that he joined us here on the Daily Signal Podcast last April, and so we're so pleased to have them back for a deeper dive not only into his story, but where things stand today within the FBI. Stay tuned for Elizabeth Mitchell's conversation |
| 0:45.3 | with Steve Friend after this. Want the Inside scoop on what's happening here at the Heritage Foundation? |
| 0:57.0 | Check out Herd It Heritage. |
| 0:59.0 | Herd It Heritage features cutting edge analysis and thought from leading experts in and across the conservative |
| 1:04.4 | movement. And of course, the Heritage Foundation's premier events and programming brought |
| 1:09.5 | straight to you. Check it out at heritage.org |
| 1:12.8 | slash podcast or in the show notes. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm here with Stephen Friend. |
| 1:19.8 | Thank you so much for joining us today. |
| 1:21.3 | Pleasure to be here. |
| 1:22.6 | Could you tell us a little bit about your experience |
| 1:25.0 | in the FBI and why you decided to leave? |
| 1:28.0 | Well, I joined the FBI in 2014. |
| 1:30.0 | I was a police officer before that in Savannah, Georgia. |
| 1:33.2 | And because of that experience, they saw fit to send me |
| 1:36.0 | to a pretty remote location where I didn't need |
| 1:37.8 | quite as much oversight as many new agents do. |
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