{"id":19242,"date":"2026-10-27T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:56:25","slug":"live-with-former-fbi-agent-turned-whistleblower-steve-friend-what-is-going-on-with-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/live-with-former-fbi-agent-turned-whistleblower-steve-friend-what-is-going-on-with-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Live with Former FBI Agent-Turned-Whistleblower Steve Friend &#8211; What is Going on with the FBI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listened to the interview on audio, and found it pretty compelling, though worth noting I don&#8217;t trust FBI agents to even speak with one (you can go to prison for giving a false statement to an FBI agent, or thought to have done so via them lying, filing a false report &#8211; get an attorney if you have to). And we&#8217;ve seen the political cases, unfair federal trials with judges denying your lawful defense&#8230; Consequently, there used to be a six week cycle where the FBI would use CIs to gin up cases to drop in the news to make sure they keep their budget up&#8230; So Steve Friend (another are we in simulation name) gives a look into how the FBI operates with quotas, bonuses, unethical behavior around reporting what they actually do&#8230; And pay attention to how many special agents they have, and a minor point is how little priority they gave to CSAM enforcement while the feds are trying to use protecting the children to bring in digital ID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/u4\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script>\n\n<div id=\"rumble_v7f8ni2\"><\/div>\n<script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v7f8ni2\",\"div\":\"rumble_v7f8ni2\",\"startTime\":506});<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to the interview on audio, and found it pretty compelling, though worth noting I don&#8217;t trust FBI agents to even speak with one (you can go to prison for giving a false statement to an FBI agent, or thought to have done so via them lying, filing a false report &#8211; get an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19243,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions\/19243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}