New FBI Internal Report has Americans Asking: Time to Burn It Down and Move on?
A new internal report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation just dropped, and it’s a doozy. What it reveals is a full-scale institutional collapse. Is it shocking? Probably not. For years, Americans have watched the FBI drift, slip, and turn political. This report not only confirms all that, but it also shows things are even worse than we realized. This has a lot of people asking: is it time to burn the FBI down and call it a day?
This report reveals that the agents inside the bureau aren’t just unhappy and frustrated. They’re also confused, frightened, hollowed out, leaderless, and driven more by activism and bureaucracy than actual law enforcement. The people running the FBI don’t know how to lead, and the people inside the system are scared to do their jobs.
Gee, that sounds comforting…
We read the report, so let’s break down what’s really going on behind those doors.
According to the report, the FBI stopped asking its employees how things were going years ago because leadership was afraid of the answers. They didn’t want to hear what agents were worried about. Another issue is that newer hires came from activist-heavy backgrounds instead of investigative backgrounds, and many of them treat federal law enforcement like a university HR department, where feelings matter more than fieldwork. DEI committees wield more influence than case agents. Promotions aren’t about performance. They’re about whether the right ideological boxes are checked.
Are you black, female, and gay? Congrats, you’re a leader, even though you’re not actually qualified…
Morale has been going down the tubes for about 20 years. Immigration enforcement work scares half the workforce because they were never trained for the physical or ethical demands. That means a lot of the newer hires came from soft, non-enforcement backgrounds and were suddenly expected to jump into high-risk field situations without the training, experience, or institutional backup needed to handle the physical danger or the political blowback.
Here’s where things go from bad to downright absurd. Agents say they get their big updates through social media instead of internal briefings. What? The FBI is logging onto X to find out what’s going down? That is unsettling on every level imaginable. According to the report, the people on the ground are often the last to know what’s going on.
Oh nice… the FBI is basically refreshing posts from “MAGAPatriot2025” to figure out what’s happening. Comforting.
And if that isn’t bad enough, many of the same weaponized political operatives involved in anti-American targeting against Trump supporters are still posted up, nice and cozy, just waiting for a friendlier administration so they can get back to business as usual.
But there’s more…
International cooperation has collapsed. Counterintelligence work is shaky, at best. Counterterrorism is all over the map and totally inconsistent. And in the middle of all this, you have a politically weaponized culture that implemented DEI into every department, creating a mini-bureaucracy inside the already insane bureaucracy with veto power over almost everything.
The culture inside the bureau has shifted so far from real investigative work that the whole institution feels unhinged and unanchored.
There’s a great X post that sparked a firestorm and highlights more of the core findings from this internal “pulse check.” It lays out the internal chaos straight from the agents themselves and shows how deep the rot goes behind the scenes.
Notes on FBI’s 2025 “Pulse Check”
-FBI stopped surveying agents in 2017 as the bosses feared what would be reported
-agents hired in the last decade are largely leftists, and disproportionately drawn from fields like education rather than policing. Their political views affect their work, with feelings mattering more than casework. Unstated implication is that change in sex composition of FBI has affected function.
-similar to rest of Trump II, FBI employees receive news via public social media posts by the bosses rather than internal communications
-many FBI agents are unhappy about working on immigration cases due to physicality & ethics of the work. Clear that a immigration enforcement training program for FBI agents is needed.
-DEI empowered a vocal minority by formally organizing them & giving them oversight over most work through DEI compliance requirements, similar to what was described by Huda Mukbil in CSIS. DEI compliance was necessary for promotion, leading to filling of upper ranks of FBI with leftist fanatics
-Justice is vague as to the degree which it will support agents from ICE & FBI in violent incidents during immigration enforcement
-those involved in spying on Republican officials remain at their positions in the FBI
-morale has steadily declined for 15-20 years per the most veteran agents
-cuts in counterintelligence work worry many. Perhaps worthwhile to review, but I’d guess that it’s a justifiable response to counterintelligence abuses against law-abiding Republicans
-international cooperation has worsened while local cooperation has improved. An excellent sign – FBI was utilizing Canadian & UK intelligence services to get around due process requirements under the previous administration
-most vocally anti-Republican Special-Agent-in-Charge (SACs) have been purged, but the quieter opposition is biding its time until Patel is replaced. This is particularly a problem away from the East Coast – seems that Patel’s personal presence is required to get rid of the DEI devotees
-discussions of counter-terrorism effectiveness vary, and should be worrying to Republicans given their extensive abuses.
-Current crop of Justice’s prosecutors are applauded by all for their aggressiveness
-Patel is universally disliked, but overall comes off as a success. His job is to prevent the FBI from tormenting the Republican Party, not effectively fight crime or push “civil rights”. He’s succeeded for now, although the problems are clearly deeply rooted, apparently to the end of the Mueller and beginning of the Comey directorships.
You can read the entire report here.
What this report really shows is that the problems inside the FBI didn’t start last year or even five years ago. They’ve been building for decades. Team Trump can steady the ship for now, but fixing something this damaged will take eons, if it’s even possible. Every time a Republican steps out, the same scumbag operators are right there waiting to drag the bureau back to the woke/DEI culture.
So the question becomes practical: do you try to fix a structure that’s been rotting for twenty years, or do you burn it down and call it a day? One path means endless trench warfare with the same people who created this mess. The other means clearing the slate and creating a law-enforcement agency that serves the country instead of politics.
The country has to decide whether this is salvageable or if it’s smarter to stop pouring new parts into a machine that no longer runs.