Rogue agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation are reportedly chafing at being asked to participate in arresting illegal immigrants, a slight that’s leaving immigration agents “stranded” in the field without backup during dangerous raids.
A report by “War Room” correspondent Natalie Winters describes how career bureaucrats are bucking calls from Director Kash Patel to jump on board with cross-agency task forces intent on removing dangerous undocumented criminals from America’s streets. According to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend, concern is growing about a cohort of “certain rogue agents” who appear to be making excuses for why their field offices are unavailable during critical assignments.
“Particularly [agents] at the supervisor and management level are really working to obstruct the deportation, the mass deportation agenda,” Winters told host Steve Bannon.
Those senior agents are giving their subordinates the decision to “opt out” of certain deportation raids, she went on, “if they do not align with their personal or political beliefs.” Some of these individuals sit at the level of Squad Supervisor or Field Office Special Agent in Charge level.
“In at least two cases, Steve was relaying to me how a lot of these sort of left-wing FBI [agents], which [are] more concentrated at the management level or sort of supervisory roles… they were comparing them to Nazis trying to create a culture whereby these agents wouldn’t necessarily want to participate in these raids to begin with,” she revealed.
A city-by-city justification has been offered to agents as well, Winters explained, describing out senior leaders would encourage ambivalent agents to opt out of lower-profile raids when fewer staffers were required.
Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump’s selection to serve as Patel’s deputy, recently visited the FBI’s Phoenix office to participate in an immigration raid with ICE, Winters retold.
While there, “supervisors in these offices said ‘that’s not going to happen’ and actually ceased all deportation raid activities that day to have everyone in the office meet with Bongino.”
In another instance, a squad supervisor was asked in a text thread why a cohort of FBI agents was late in arriving to an imminent ICE raid.
“This supervisor said ‘no, we’re actually not’ and left ICE stranded without the FBI support staff,” Winter said.
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Patel, a staunch supporter of the President’s mission to carry out mass deportations, has been tasked with reforming an FBI culture that for decades has operated with a sense of autonomy outside the executive branch. Its agents were central in carrying out an August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents in Trump’s possession, and the Republican hasn’t let the Bureau’s bureaucrats forget it.
Similarly, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan have probed the FBI for leaks on pending raids, which they said endangered the lives of agents in the field. Both claimed to have found the source of several of those leaks and said those responsible would be fired and face criminal prosecution if possible
“The FBI is so corrupt,” Noem said at the time. “We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law.”
