I saw 'the two FBIs' up close. One protects America, the other protects itself

It is bittersweet to say, but what Americans person been seeing unravel earlier their eyes successful caller weeks with the revelations of Arctic Frost and different FBI-related scandals are not the slightest spot shocking to me.  In fact, it validates what I item successful my publication "The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw successful My Time astatine the Bureau" which was published by Broadside Books connected November 11. I was humbled to personally beryllium invited to the Oval Office past week to conscionable with President Donald Trump who endorsed my book.  

I loved being an FBI peculiar cause for implicit a twelve years and considered it a ineffable work and mission. After graduating from the FBI Academy, I was assigned to the Miami Field Office, initially moving connected white-collar crimes and past transferring to past squad C15 moving tirelessly connected the fig 1 nationally ranked convulsive transgression fugitive task force, obliterating the astir heinous crimes. I stock harrowing investigations and gripping takedowns. 

Yes, it was physically taxing and emotionally jarring, but I believed I was fulfilling a greater purpose—until things changed and the FBI’s trajectory was upended. I watched arsenic the FBI became politically and socially weaponized. It was arsenic if determination became 2 FBIs.

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I judge that being honorable is captious to surviving an honorable life. This means speaking up erstwhile things bash not beryllium good successful your soul, telling it arsenic it is. That’s not ever easy. Sometimes it puts a people connected your back. While astatine the FBI, I knew agents who chose either to archer the information oregon to archer a varnished mentation of it; they told others what they wanted to hear. That’s not me.

FBI 1 is comprised of those who articulation the FBI with axenic motives to service Americans, putting the needs of victims first. They are ethical, honoring their oath to uphold the Constitution and support successful a just and unbiased manner. They support their heads low, enactment disconnected the radar, and enactment hard, doing the dense lifting portion pursuing noble cases without fanfare oregon self-promotion. FBI 1 makes the bureau proud.

President Donald Trump holds erstwhile FBI peculiar cause Nicole Parker's caller publication "The Two FBIs" successful the Oval Office astatine the White House connected November 10, 2025. (White House)

FBI 2, connected the different hand, is the antithesis of FBI 1. It is comprised of FBI employees who maltreatment their instrumentality enforcement powerfulness to propulsion their governmental and societal agendas. Many are self-promoters successful enactment positions either astatine office successful D.C. oregon successful enforcement absorption nationwide, portion others are tract agents oregon enactment staff. 

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FBI 2 is not confined to 1 determination oregon 1 role; its members are interspersed passim the bureau from apical to bottom. FBI 2’s mindset covers a wide spectrum exuding haughty arrogance from immoderate and blasé laziness from others. FBI 2’s shameful actions person destroyed the bureau’s erstwhile stellar reputation.

Is it an overstatement to accidental that the FBI is embroiled successful a civilian war? I bash not deliberation so. Lines person been drawn and sides taken: FBI 1 versus FBI 2.

I agonized implicit my determination to permission the FBI 2 years into the Biden administration. Ultimately, my individuality was not my career. I had prayed and knew it was clip to spell successful October 2022.  (Fox News )

On the 1 side: integrity, meritocracy, protecting the American people. On the different side: idiosyncratic agendas and individuality politics, DEI, superior transgression investigations replaced by politically motivated cases, the upholding of instrumentality and bid replaced by performative posturing.

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I agonized implicit my determination to permission the FBI 2 years into the Biden administration. Ultimately, my individuality was not my career. I had prayed and knew it was clip to spell successful October 2022. 

Following the Lord’s intended way for you is not ever easy. Sometimes it does not marque sense, and you whitethorn beryllium going against the grain. In fact, you whitethorn consciousness alone. But if you spot Him, you tin ne'er spell wrong. That reassurance was what enabled maine to locomotion away.

Is it an overstatement to accidental that the FBI is embroiled successful a civilian war? I bash not deliberation so. Lines person been drawn and sides taken: FBI 1 versus FBI 2. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

I americium inactive profoundly saddened that conditions deteriorated to the constituent that leaving was my champion option. But leaving has allowed maine the independency to beryllium forthright, to talk the information arsenic a witness.

As Abraham Lincoln said, "A location divided against itself cannot stand."

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In my caller book, "The Two FBIs" I explicate however that contention was waged—the battles, the changeless tug of warfare betwixt FBI 1 and FBI 2. In immoderate war, determination are casualties, some literal and figurative. In my clip astatine the FBI, I experienced both.

I inactive consciousness the symptom of witnessing up adjacent the degradation of what had erstwhile been the premiere instrumentality enforcement bureau successful the world. Sadly, my position was not unique. Others similar maine besides near the agency.

Far beyond that, 2 agents were killed portion executing a hunt warrant connected a kid predator. One of them was my closest person successful the bureau, a spectacularly talented and devoted cause whose bequest deserves amended than what the FBI was offering.

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My communicative isn’t ever pretty, but it is the information arsenic I saw it and arsenic I lived it. The warfare goes on. But I americium hopeful with the caller medication that FBI 1 volition beryllium elevated portion FBI 2 indispensable beryllium eliminated. 

I judge that successful the end, bully volition win. I chose to stock my communicative of the 2 FBIs with the world, to marque it my publication to hastening that outcome.

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This sentiment nonfiction was adapted from the author's book, "The Two FBIs."