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07/05/25 9:42 PM

#533036 RE: janice shell #533022

Super work, Goodbye to All That, Michael Feinberg. When the Trump administration goes after it's relative own...

"Ironically, some of the greatest successes of the first Trump Administration’s efforts against the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence services and their proxies occurred under my leadership: I was the principal investigative architect of the indictment of Huawei Technologies, and the unit I oversaw at FBI headquarters contributed to the FCC’s decision to bar China Mobile a license to operate in the United States. I supervised the case against a Zoom executive who assisted China’s Ministry of Public Security in its campaign against Chinese political dissidents in the United States. All in all, I played a role in many cases pursued under the administration’s China Initiative (I am aware that the China Initiative became controversial for political reasons and that the Biden administration formally ended it. None of the cases I was involved in were among those that gave rise to the controversies.) In short, I was an apolitical civil servant protecting the United States against its most salient near-peer threat.

Indeed, a cursory look at my pre-FBI background would reveal that, far from being some sort of leftist deep state operative, my personal beliefs generally lean right; I was vice-president of my law school’s most conservative organization, and my first clerkship was with a libertarian public interest firm.


it should remind every interested person of:

Hitler purges members of his own Nazi party in Night of the Long Knives
HISTORY.com Editors
Published: February 09, 2010
Last Updated: May 27, 2025
In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The event became known as the Night of the Long Knives.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-30/night-of-the-long-knives

No, it's is not a stretch to make a comparison like that between Trump and Hitler. In fact it is very apt:

"The specifics of my experience may be unique—details often are—but the broad strokes of the story have become unfortunately common in recent months, as more and more special agents are driven out of the Bureau on mere suspicion of political unreliability. These developments should be concerning to all Americans. In the past six months, the FBI—and, for that matter, the Department of Justice and intelligence community as a whole—has been forcing out a wide range of experienced personnel needed to protect our nation. Under Patel and Bongino, subject matter expertise and operational competence are readily sacrificed for ideological purity and the ceaseless politicization of the workforce. At a time of simultaneous wars across the globe and a return to great power competition, this makes us all less safe.

Your .. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/goodbye-to-all-that .. with links.