Less than a week ago, readers might recall that Special Counsel Jack Smith announced his retirement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)–as we noted, heading out the door before Trump could fire him.
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After that news made the rounds, Missouri GOP Senator Eric Schmitt reacted to it by not only sharing his thoughts on Smith’s undistinguished tenure, but blasted the lawfare that happened during his time at the DOJ.
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That was only a harbinger of more troubles for the Justice Department. On Friday, Sen. Schmitt is now ringing the warning bells about what he describes as an “unprecedented hack of sensitive FBI information” that happened Thursday. He dashed off a letter to outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray about the disturbing hacking incident just days before the inauguration.
The Show Me state lawmaker shared the letter on his X account:
🚨Yesterday, there was an unprecedented hack of sensitive FBI information that compromises the Bureau’s ability to do its job and keep Americans safe. We must confirm @Kash_Patel and begin the much needed reform of the Bureau. My letter to the FBI below. pic.twitter.com/9VyvqkOnwS
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) January 17, 2025
He wrote to Sec. Wray, in part:
“I write to express my concern over the recent revelation that hackers obtained months of call and text logs from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, exposing sensitive details on agents’ communications with confidential informants.
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This cybersecurity lapse could have a chilling effect on confidential informants, who may second-guess current or future relationships with the FBI. This alarming breach demands both a comprehensive investigation and a thorough review of agency operations. But that won’t be enough.
This is not an isolated incident and this is yet another instance of the FBI failing to live up to its commitments as the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
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Schmitt then detailed the Biden administration’s harassment of Catholics, labeling them “extremists,” and the ransacking of a political opponent’s home, with the raid on Mar-a-Lago “in the dead of night.” Near the end, he chastised Ray and the FBI over its failures, telling him that “the American people expect answers but more importantly, they expect change.”
His alarming X post also includes a timely reminder, with the confirmation hearings continuing for the president-elect’s cabinet–that this latest example of mismanagement at the FBI underlines why Kash Patel needs to be confirmed by the Senate ASAP.
As I shared, we got a glimpse of what then-candidate Trump may have seen in Patel during the presidential primary, when a clip of him from May 2024, pledging to clean things up in the federal government relating to lawfare if given the opportunity, reemerged on social media a few days ago.
‘Only The Beginning’: Kash Patel Makes Explosive Comment on Merchan, the New FBI, and Ending Lawfare
While we see some signs that things are changing for the better, as my colleague Sister Toldjah wrote earlier on Friday, with the reassignment this week of Alethea Duncan, the assistant special agent in charge at the FBI-New Orleans field office, who told reporters the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street was not being considered a terror attack.
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And with Trump and (hopefully) Patel around in the new White House to scrub things from top to bottom of both corruption and wokeness, we saw the FBI preemptively close down the DEI office.
Signs of Change?
Bye-Bye DEI at the FBI: Bureau Makes Big Change Even Before Trump Re-Takes Command
Like many conservatives, regardless of which party a politician or bureaucrat belongs to, when they promise a course correction that benefits the American people and not their grip on power or job security–I’ll believe it when I see it.
