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| 2025-08-20 | |
Michael Feinberg, who was recently the assistant special agent in charge at the FBI’s Norfolk field office in Virginia, left the FBI at the end of May after he claims his direct superior told him that FBI deputy director Dan Bongino was scrutinizing his longtime friendship with Strzok, the disgraced FBI special agent who played a key role in the Trump-Russia investigation and was fired following the emergence of biased anti-Trump texts he had exchanged with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair. Rather than take a polygraph test about his relationship with Strzok, Feinberg says he quit the FBI instead of risking the possible demotion he says he was facing in place of the big promotion to FBI headquarters which he had been expecting. The FBI’s website says that “although we have used polygraphs to screen new employees for many years, since the 2001 Robert Hanssen spy case, we have also been requiring regular polygraph examinations of FBI employees with access to sensitive compartmented information.” ANTI-TRUMP OPERATIVES' NEW HERO Since leaving the bureau, Feinberg has been hailed this summer by some as a possible “Resistance 2.0”-style hero by multiple anti-Trump foes. He has appeared on CNN and MSNBC, talked with Daily Show host and Trump critic Jon Stewart, got a job at the Brookings Institute-affiliated anti-Trump outlet Lawfare, and more, all while lashing out at the FBI under FBI Director Kash Patel. Feinberg has hinted at a nefarious connection between Trump and Russia, has compared the current bureau to Communist-style spy agencies, and has suggested that the Trump administration had commonalities with the Nazi regime, all while promoting the views of his friend Peter Strzok and seeking to downplay the FBI’s wrongdoing during its politically-motivated Crossfire Hurricane inquiry into now debunked claims of Trump-Russia collusion. "RESISTANCE 2.0" EMBRACES FEINBERG Feinberg has been widely embraced by an array of anti-Trump figures who played a role in the “Resistance” against Trump during the president’s first term. Benjamin Wittes — described by Politico in 2017 as “The Bard of the Deep State” — is a longtime Trump critic, a self-described friend of Comey and Strzok, and the editor-in-chief of Lawfare, where Feinberg wrote his first article describing his resignation from the FBI. Feinberg will reportedly soon be working for Lawfare. New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt wrote multiple stories in May 2017 about Comey’s interactions with Trump — including the contents of the so-called Comey Memos, which described Wittes as “a friend of Mr. Comey’s” with Wittes writing that he gave a long interview to Schmidt “about my conversations with FBI Director James Comey over the last few months, and particularly about one such conversation that took place on March 27 over lunch in Comey’s FBI office.” During Trump’s first term, Wittes would celebrate Russiagate stories by posting on social media videos of a “Baby Cannon” firing. Wittes and Feinberg also say they are friends, and Wittes and Feinberg announced that Feinberg would be working at Lawfare soon after his resignation in late May of this year. Feinberg is now listed as a Lawfare contributor and has appeared on at least one more Lawfare podcast episodes with Wittes on the “Trials of the Trump Administration”, including one in early August on “the politicization of the Justice Department” and “the Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg.” WELCOME TO THE "OTHER SIDE“ "Boom, you're a great American. Welcome to the other side. There's lots of public service to do on this side,” Wittes said. “For those who do not know this already, Mike will be joining Lawfare in September as our next public service fellow. You will be hearing from him a lot. He's got a lot to say about the bureau, about the rule of law, about the Chinese Communist Party and its efforts against the United States, and again, about a whole lot of other stuff too. Mike, we'll be hearing a lot more from you. Welcome to the Lawfare clubhouse.” Feinberg also announced on LinkedIn in July that he was joining Justice Connection, a group which describes itself as “a network of DOJ alumni working to protect our former colleagues who are under attack.” Feinberg wrote that “the organization was a great help to me when I left the FBI earlier than I ever expected I would, and I’m looking forward to being able to assist those in a similar position.” Justice Connection tweeted in July that “we’re grateful Mike Feinberg has joined Justice Connection, part of what he calls ‘the exile community,’ to defend FBI agents from Kash Patel's dangerous purge of the bureau's apolitical workforce.” The Steady State — a group of former national security officials who include a number of Hunter Biden laptop letter signers — also embraced Feinberg, writing a letter which decried what they wrongly described as his removal and encouraging their followers to embrace Feinberg. The group, which says it has been resisting Trump since 2016, listed Feinberg as among those named in “a starter pack of individuals with expertise in national security who support the rule-of-law, civil liberties, and constitutional democracy.” Listed members of the Steady State include Hunter Biden laptop letter signers Larry Pfeiffer and John Sipher, Biden State Department spokesman Ned Price, Christopher Steele’s friend and former State Department official Jonathan Winer and so-called "anti-disinformation" business Newsguard's General (Ret.) Michael Hayden. Miles Taylor — the former DHS official from the first Trump administration who went by “Anonymous” when writing the 2018 New York Times piece which declared that “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” — has also repeatedly praised Feinberg. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." ___ Hannah Arendt The woman was prescient... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2025-08-20 08:46 |
| #2 When keeping your message consistent reaches a new height of ridiculousness. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-08-20 07:36 |
| #1 Projection is deep with these people. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-08-20 07:16 |