How Is This Not A Revolution At The FBI?

Just in the past few days, we've had this development:

The FBI has fired 15 agents associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with demonstrators at the height of protests over the police killing of George Floyd, according to the agents association.

The latest round of dismissals at the bureau came at the end of a monthslong review targeting 15 agents who were associated with the kneeling incident, according to one person briefed on the matter. Some agents who were present at the incident but didn’t kneel were not fired, the source said.

Followed by this one, which strikes me as even bigger:

The FBI secretly deployed more than 250 plainclothes agents to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, an operation so disorganized it unleashed searing frustrations among many of the FBI's rank-and-file that the bureau had lost its core competencies to "wokeness" and allowed its employees to become “pawns in a political war,” according to an after-action report kept from the public for more than four years.

Scores of FBI agents and personnel – many from the bureau’s premier Washington field office (WFO) – sent anonymous complaints to the after-action team detailing how agents were sent into an unsafe scenario without proper safety equipment or the ability to identify themselves readily as armed officers to other police agencies, the report obtained by Just the News shows.

But it doesn't end there:

Three senior FBI officials who were abruptly fired last month by Kash Patel, the FBI director, are claiming in a new lawsuit against the Trump administration that they were illegally terminated at the direction of the White House for purely political reasons.

. . . The three fired agents who brought the case were decorated veterans of the agency who had served in senior roles. One of them, [Brian] Driscoll, had briefly been acting FBI director while Patel was going through the Senate confirmation process. Steven Jensen served as assistant director in charge of the Washington, D.C., field office. Spencer Evans had once led the Las Vegas field office, but by the time he was fired he had been removed from that position and was being relocated to the Huntsville, Alabama, office.

But Sundance's take at Conservative Treehouse is hard to square with reports like those above:

FBI Director Kash Patel once again rises to defend the integrity of the institution he leads.

While Tweeting a link to a Fox News story quoting him, the FBI director says, “274 FBI agents were thrown into crowd control on Jan 6 against FBI standards. That failure was on corrupt leadership. Thanks to agents stepping up, the truth is coming out. Transparency. Justice. Accountability.”

Which begs the questions: 274 FBI plainclothes agents were going to do what, exactly?… How did the FBI know to have 274 agents “on hand” prepared to intervene? And where exactly is “on hand” located?

He links to a Fox News story that he seems to think proves his case:

The FBI responded on Saturday to a report that 274 plainclothes agents were at the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, clarifying the role of bureau personnel while still blasting former Director Christopher Wray.

While the agents were on hand, they were sent in after the riot had begun to try to control the unruly crowd, officials told Fox News Digital. That is not the proper role of FBI agents, and Wray was not forthcoming about what happened when he testified numerous times on Capitol Hill, Director Kash Patel said.

“Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police – something that goes against FBI standards,” Patel told Fox News Digital. “This was the failure of a corrupt leadership that lied to Congress and to the American people about what really happened.”

He added, “Thanks to agents coming forward, we are now uncovering the truth. We are fully committed to transparency, and justice and accountability continues with this FBI.”

As best I can read this, the FBI has released files on the January 6, 2021 episode that it had suppressed for four years. Director Patel attributed this to "corrupt leadership" (viz, Christopher Wray), and he announced, "we are now uncovering the truth". This may be defending "the integrity of the institution he leads", but that's only if you see it in the light of former agents like the late James Kallstrom, who led the TWA 800 investigation but said in later years that he "did not recognize the agency I gave 28 years of my life to".

If anything, it seems to me that Patel is trying to restore the integrity of an FBI that Kallstrom would recognize, not the FBI of Comey and Wray, or for that matter, Mueller. The second link above continues,

The most persistent complaint [from agents themselves] was that the bureau during the James Comey and Chris Wray era had become infected with political biases and liberal ideology that treated the protesters from the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots far differently than those arrested in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 episode.

“The FBI should make clear to its personnel and the public that, despite its obvious political bias, it ultimately still takes its mission and priorities seriously,” one employee wrote in a stinging review. “It should equally and aggressively investigate criminal activity regardless of the offenders' perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations; and it should equally and aggressively protect all Americans regardless of perceived race, political affiliations, or motivations.”

Just yesterday, other news confirmed that Patel is continuing a serious agenda of transparency:

The unsolved case of two pipe bombs planted at the major political parties' headquarters in Washington D.C. before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot is facing new mystery after FBI Director Kash Patel transmitted to Congress the lab analysis and interviews with a key witness who is challenging the official timeline of events.

. . . The mystifying evidence now has congressional investigators exploring stunning new theories, including whether the bombs were made to look real but not to explode to create a diversion during the Jan. 6 protest or whether someone came back and set the timers later on one or both of the devices.

"The single greatest action that facilitated the protester's ease of entry into the Capitol on January 6 was the placing of the pipe bombs, and the diversionary effect that had on security resources which would have otherwise been at the Capitol," said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee that is investigating the law enforcement response to Jan. 6.

"After that day, the FBI was zealous in pursuing those trespassing at the Capitol, but quite lacking in their pursuit of whomever placed the pipe bombs," he added. "One focus of this Committee will be highlighting the bizarre facts surrounding the pipe bomb case, hoping to bring much needed clarity on this subject to the American people.”

The allegation that Sundance and others at the conspracy-theory right seem to make is that Patel, Bongino, and Bondi are creating a smokescreen of frenzied but feckless activity that somehow just serves as a distraction from the real conspiracies that are still taking place. So, what are they covering up? January 6? The FBI has just confirmed that 250-plus agents were in the crowd, something it had previously denied, a central issue of the MAGA theory of recent history, and Trump is now demanding that this be fully explained.

The pipe bombs planted at the DNC-RNC before the riot? Ditto, Patel has just released genuine new information. This was another major MAGA question. Well, then, is Patel shielding high-level people who were complicit in all this skulduggery? Apparently not, he's actually firing them left and right.

Wait just one moment, though. What's the one name we aren't hearing in all this phony activity? That's right! Jeffrey Epstein! They're covering up for Trump, Epstein, Dershowitz -- probably Netanyahu! It's all gonna fall out about Epstein! Just you wait!