MONITOR INTEL

“It showed a lack of understanding of what the bureau at the headquarters level does. And so this was the first instance, I would say, of a pattern that we would see after that of decisions first, and then everybody scramble and figure out how to make it happen later.”

“And the goal has always been that once she is comfortable, then she will be out with them. But it would be inappropriate for us to rush it. We want to see them together.”

“There was from what I learned on a senior conference was that the president had seen video footage or pictures of the raids that were being conducted around The United States and was angry that he did not see the well known FBI flak jackets with the yellow FBI on the back.”

“2021's inflation surge moderated in 2023, while the Federal Reserve continued to raise its interest rates in the first half of the year.”

“2023 also saw the roots of a global banking crisis arise out of four American regional banks, the two largest being Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank.”

“With Dan Bongino's selection to be his deputy director, I realized in that moment that it was not going to be okay. Dan Bongino struck me as somebody who had really lost his way, particularly some of the most alarming things he would say would get clicks and kinda work their way into algorithms.”

“What we found was an agency that was really straining under political pressure where the leadership was transformed into something much more partisan than anyone at the FBI had seen before. Agents were finding themselves doing work that felt to them like it was different and at odds with their own sense of mission and purpose.”

“Most importantly, he's somebody who has spun conspiracy theories about the bureau in the past. He says that Joe Biden rigged the twenty twenty election. He thinks that there were FBI agents involved in planning the January sixth attack on the Capitol, which is part of why Trump picks him.”

“The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day-long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.”

“The rise of artificial intelligence and large language models dominated not only the economy but has also been at the root of a Hollywood double strike conducted by Writers Guild of America and a SAG APTRA strike.”