We Are All FBI Agents Now

An open letter from a dedicated civil servant who has lost their job, just like my partner - plus EXCLUSIVE photos from the American Federation of Government Workers conference

My Fellow Democracy Defenders,

I wanted to share an anonymous letter from an FBI agent. They are trying to save our sacred democracy. All of us are FBI agents now, fighting back against fascism and our constitutional crisis.

The author of the letter reminds me so much of my partner. They are both brave, courageous civil servants fighting for justice and the American people. My partner is a BIPOC who has battled institutional racism their entire life. Sadly, we were fired from a DEI career a few weeks ago. We volunteer at our local Planned Parenthood, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups, and animals shelters. Our kids play soccer, just like yours.

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Please support all former and current public servants while you still have a chance. We will continue to push back the orange menace, muskrat, and their MAGA DOGE minions. Let us all show solidarity as good neighbors and build each other up, while preserving our institutions.

At the bottom, I have included a few photos from the American Federation of Government Workers conference. One of my friends attended the brave protests there. Here is Senator Chuck Schumer’s whistleblower website: https://www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

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Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice

Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware.

For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know.

However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure.

Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?

Anonymous FBI Agent

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