I'm former FBI Assistant Director, Frank Figuzy.

Join me on a journey deep inside the world's premier law enforcement agency

to decode the mysteries and challenges of today's FBI.

The threats facing America are as real as the men and women who battle to protect us.

In this first of a kind podcast, we sit down with active duty FBI personnel who reveal their mission, their cases, and their lives. Let's go inside

the Bureau with Frank Figuising. We're a full-service public affairs show. Fielding calls from

reporters. Making sure that that relationship is nurtured and built and grown over a period of time,

and our credibility is there. The FBI can't do what it does without help from the citizen and when it knocks on their doors and asks for help.

When more we're able to provide a full picture of what the FBI does and who we are, the more the public will respect us.

Public's cooperation with the Bureau is essential. A real

true story of the FBI is largely one of expertise, success, dedication. It's all about, like

you so, trust, credibility relationship building. At the end of the day, we're accountable to the

public we serve. In this week that followed the firing of an FBI agent,

revelations of lying by FBI personnel regarding the investigation of Dr. Larry Nassar at USA Gymnastics

and deeply compelling testimony by top Olympic gymnasts.

I can't think of a more appropriate guest than the man who led public affairs for the FBI.

At the time of our recording, which was prior to the public hearings and testimony by the director and the inspector general,

Assistant Director Brian Hale was in his final days at the bureau having decided to accept a position

in the private sector. Brian spoke candidly about the challenges of managing the public face of the

FBI. We are thrilled to have you, Brian. You are really a leader of the public face of the FBI as head of

the national press office, your title's assistant director. Now we get to kind of go behind the scenes

of that public face of the FBI and learn more about how you interact with the press, the public,

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