Dan Bongino speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2014. (Shutterstock.com)
Michael Feinberg, a former assistant special agent in charge at the FBI, was forced to resign in late May after it was discovered that he was friends with Peter Strzok, an ex-investigator whom President Donald Trump targeted in his first term for his anti-Trump sentiments.
That relationship with Strzok was enough for a political commentator and radio host to shove Feinberg out after he took over as the deputy director of the FBI.
MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked Feinberg about his "degree of alarm about both the politicization of the FBI and all the blind spots created by taking people off of critical things like counterterrorism."
The former agent made it clear that the problem is not with agents, but rather it's with the new Trump appointees.
He noted that there are many "moments in history where the security forces or the national police forces of a country became overtly ideological or overtly politicized."
They were not countries he thinks the United States should emulate.
"I would just also add that you mentioned counterterrorism operations at the end. I still lie awake at night, worried that a bomb is going to go off or a secret is going to get stolen, because we took our eyes off the ball," said Feinberg. "And if there ever is a mass casualty event involving either a domestic or international terrorist organization, you know, [FBI Director Kash]Patel and [Deputy Director Dan] Bongino are really going to have to answer to the American people and more importantly, to the victims families about why they felt so comfortable eviscerating those programs for the sake of providing extra bodies for immigration arrests."
See the interview clip below or at the link here.
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