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.

International affairs specialist and retired Naval War College professor Tom Nichols is astounded by reports that the FBI was demanding polygraphs for agents to prove their loyalty.

Speaking to host Katy Tur on Friday, Nichols and ex-FBI agent Jim Davidson, who leads the FBI Integrity Project, said that the ordeal must be leaving agents confused.

FBI Director Kash Patel may have exposed President Donald Trump to the risk of deposition, according to a lawsuit brought by senior FBI agents he fired, national security journalist Marcy "emptywheel" Wheeler wrote on Thursday.

The lawsuit from the former agents, Brian Driscoll, Steven Jensen, and Spencer Evans, makes a lot of damning claims about how Patel operated, including that he said they could not have voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris if they wanted to pass vetting for the Trump administration.

Several people on the left and right have cheered the words of New York Times podcaster Ezra Klein, who heralded right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as "practicing politics the right way."

Others, however, say Klein's kind words and calls for non-violence ignore Kirk's frequent calls for different groups of people to be killed or oppressed. Kirk has called for trying doctors of transgender patients and suggested that men should "physically attack" trans people. He also claimed those in the LGBTQ community should be "stoned to death," and told women, "submit to your husband."

President Donald Trump's handpicked leaders for the FBI are essentially cosplaying their roles, according to a veteran agent pushed out by the pair's purge of the bureau's ranks.

Michael Feinberg, a 15-year veteran working as an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, received a phone call from his boss asking about his personal friendship with former agent and longtime Trump target Peter Strzok, and he recounted to The Atlantic that he decided to maintain his dignity by resigning rather than be marched out the door.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested that some Democrats were guilty of crimes because they had stopped using the X social media platform.

During a Thursday interview on The Blaze, host Glenn Beck noted that former Secretary of State John Kerry had made his X account private, and Democratic attorney Marc Elias had also stopped using the platform.

Donald Trump's return to the White House has transformed the executive branch into what critics describe as a vengeful playground where personal grudges are more important than policy considerations.

But The Atlantic writer Tom Nichols warned that even the president's most ardent supporters are close to their limit — and Trump knows it.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter excoriating now-former acting Assistant Attorney General Danelle Sassoon after she sent her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi. And her letter makes allegations against Bove that could end up in court, a legal analyst warned Thursday on MSNBC.

Bove's letter first emerged publicly, and Sassoon's has since been released — which accused Bove of agreeing to a quid pro quo involving New York City Mayor Eric Adams.