Uncorrupting the FBI

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s a tale of three attacks. The murderous rampage through the French Quarter, the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, and the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol. To a former FBI and Justice department guy like Kenneth Strange, who spent time on the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), each of those incidents are very different, with unique causes and motives. Strange believes the FBI has lost its way and allowed political pressure to distort how it allocates its resources. He joins Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done,
0:18.0	chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.
0:22.8	Be very prescient, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:31.9	We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:34.2	and we're going to try to go further.
0:36.3	Great investigative reporting, Peter.
0:37.5	You're the only one doing it.
0:38.3	Thank God.
0:43.3	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,
0:44.9	The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:52.7	Hi, this is Peter Schweitzer, and welcome to the Drill Down, where we relentlessly expose cronyism, corruption, and the abuse of power in Washington, D.C. By my side, of course, is the co-host, Eric Eggers. Eric, how are you? I am by your side, but things are not the same as they once were, Peter Schweitzer. They're different. It's a new year. We're in a new studio. So if you're watching online, thank you. And it's a new look. And you
1:12.7	seem much more approachable these days. Gone is the blazer. But I like that we're getting a more
1:19.9	authentic look at you because you are wearing Orvis. And that is like who Peter Schweitzer is
1:23.8	deep down in his soul. Yeah, I just don't have a branding agreement with Orvis, which I wish I did have. I was saying earlier, by the way, I like the new location before it was it was a tighter space and I don't like being in tight spaces with you. I don't know what it is. I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm not saying you're a threat to anything, but it was just kind of odd. So it's good to have the elbow room.
1:45.2	You may not think I'm a threat yet somehow I feel attacked. And let me just say that what actually Peter Schweitzer likes about this new studio, just to give people a bit of a peek behind the curtain here at GAI, our old studio was actually in the other building. So Peter Schweitzer had to go through the agony of walking 30 yards across a breezeway to get
2:05.4	to our old studio.
2:07.3	And so now he can just go downstairs.
2:08.8	And so we can add this podcast to the list of saying Peter Schweitzer, including
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