FBI agent writes anonymous letter warning Americans

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/video/fbi-agent-letter-insurrection-trump-digvid

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  2. Why on Earth is this a video of a summary/quotes from the letter and not just the text of the letter itself?? Not mad at you, but at CNN.

  4. We need Democratic Governors to form a coalition immediately—it’s our best chance to stop creeping fascism.

    Democratic states control 70% of U.S. GDP. This is our best leverage to push back against authoritarian overreach.

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    I urge you to lead a coalition of Democratic Governors to counter the growing threat of federal overreach. Elon Musk now controls the U.S. Treasury payment system, giving him dangerous influence over federal funding. If we do nothing, critical programs could be sabotaged at his whim.

    We need a unified Blue-State Emergency Coalition to: Coordinate legal challenges to block unconstitutional federal actions. Declare a collective State of Emergency to protect state resources. Refuse cooperation with unlawful federal directives.

    This is not about partisanship—it’s about defending democracy and economic stability. We must act before it’s too late. You have the power to make this happen. Will you take action?

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  6. AI assisted transcription of the video:

    For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette. The letter reads free of political bias or moral judgment; it is not about any one person but an amalgamation of multiple FBI special agents. I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession. This is the quiet side of me that you do not know. I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an Allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent three months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an outlaw motorcycle gang. I intercepted and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep-cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty. Something else about me: I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I’ve investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at a resolution. I’m now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days—fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation, fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor? Who’s going to do it for me today? Deadline White.

  7. Here’s the letter:

    Uncommon Sense was a Common Vice

    Those with knowledge of the United States Marine Corps will recognize the irony of this title. I wish its words were not true, but as I write this, I believe they are.

    Currently, there is an effort to cull a significant number of career Special Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an unthinkable action that will gravely undermine the security of the nation well beyond what many of our citizens are aware. For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgment. It is not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

    I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of golf with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community. This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession.

    This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang. I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting. I spent multiple years monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

    Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

    I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do. I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?

    EDIT: formatting. I found the article on some dude’s LinkedIn page just by googling the title that I saw in the video.

  8. I hope this administration just keeps making enemies so republicans lose by a landslide in 2028.

  9. lemme guess. Fox is ignoring the letter.

    f’ing foreign propaganda op on American soil.

  10. Trump’s revenge tour is in full swing, and now he’s coming for the FBI. Thousands of agents who worked to hold January 6 insurrectionists accountable are bracing for retaliation because in Trump’s America, enforcing the law is a crime if it applies to *his* people. Now an agent is warning the country, but will anyone listen before it’s too late?

  11. Reposting because my original comment got deleted for tagging. 

    Here’s a video where the letter is read: https://youtu.be/g2D4wmmr9h4?si=dloR1G08YUZ8aXuY

    And u/ haveyoufoundyourself posted the full text here: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1ijzdhc/comment/mbi8poa/

  12. The letter as transcribed from the video:

    “For those seeking to raise their awareness, I offer this vignette, free of political bias or moral judgement. It’s not about any one person, but an amalgamation of multiple FBI Special Agents.

    I am the coach of your child’s soccer team. I sit next to you on the occasion in religious devotion. I am a member of the PTA. With friends, you celebrated my birthday. I collected your mail and took out your trash while you were away from home. I played a round of gold with you. I am a veteran. I am the average neighbor in your community.

    This is who you see and know. However, there is a part of my life that is a mystery to you, and prompts a natural curiosity about my profession. This is the quiet side of me that you do not know: I orchestrated a clandestine operation to secure the release of an allied soldier held captive by the Taliban. I prevented an ISIS terrorist from boarding a commercial aircraft. I spent 3 months listening to phone intercepts in real time to gather evidence needed to dismantle a violent drug gang.

    I recruited a source to provide critical intelligence on Russian military activities in Africa. I rescued a citizen being tortured to near death by members of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. I interceded and stopped a juvenile planning to conduct a school shooting.

    I spent multiple years of monitoring the activities of deep cover foreign intelligence officers, leading to their arrest and deportation. I endured extensive hardship to infiltrate a global child trafficking organization. I have been shot in the line of duty.

    Something else about me, I was assigned to investigate a potential crime. Like all previous cases I have investigated, this one met every legal standard of predication and procedure. Without bias, I upheld my oath to this country and the Constitution and collected the facts. I collected the facts in a manner to neither prove innocence nor guilt, but to arrive at resolution.

    I am now sitting in my home, listening to my children play and laugh in the backyard, oblivious to the prospect that their father may be fired in a few days. Fired for conducting a legally authorized investigation. Fired for doing the job that he was hired to do.

    I have to wonder, when I am gone, who will do the quiet work that is behind the facade of your average neighbor?”

    You’re welcome!

  13. on another hand – a little unnerving that someone in the FBI thinks the best/only(?) path forward here is to reach out to the public.

    somewhat incredible that there are not inter-gov forces to prevent this sort of thing.

  14. I don’t know how the FBI can do its job when it has to check to see if doing it will result in termination. With the chaotic fluctuation if desires from this administration how the heck are authorities going to know how/if they can do their jobs? The criminals are running the jailhouse. It’s all so absurd and likely deadly and makes America a much less safe.

  16. This is a powerful statement, and one that should terrify every single person in this country.

  17. I used to work for NORTHCOM, and reported FBI data, and it is eye-opening to see how many horrific crimes they are able to stop every single day. And we never hear about any of them. It’s too bad there wasn’t more transparency, because maybe people would find more value if they understood what happens behind the scenes.

  18. Again… Trump and his campaign sheep ALL said they were going after the DOJ, FBI, and CIA. We were ALL fucking warned. Why did 90 million sit this out?

  19. The orange bag of shit 💩snd his merry band of incompetents will be the undoing of America . There’s always been a faction of greedy capitalists and deplorable right wing opportunists chopping at the bit to get their dirty mitts on our American Democracy. Now that they seem to have it I guess it’s time to watch them fuck it up royally.

  20. They should quit calling this “culling” or “firing” agents. It’s a political purge.

  21. As a UK citizen im quietly sitting at home watching the Security Offices of the great United States of America being quietly dismantled from the inside by what to non Americans seems to be a mix of Putin, greed, a power crazed oligarch and poor education……and it is so sad and disappointing to see.

    What happened to the USA.

  22. Shit is getting bad and the best thing we can do is try to stymie them until the 2026 midterms and then hope Democrats win, and more importantly that they win any red seats in blue states as I don’t trust the elections in red states.

    America is on life support and we’re all fighting for the power of attorney so they can’t pull the plug.

    BUT we need to be as mentally ready as possible for the possibility that the metaphorical dam breaks a lot faster than expected.

    And yes that is a terrifying thought.

  23. I hate trump supporters and I wish nothing but the worst for them. Thats as much as I’ll say but I truly wish them the worst.

  24. For those saying “we need democratic governors to do something!!” what more can they do? What we need is republican governors and senators to stop being complacent in this coup. Yes, dems need to do more, but Republican government officials ARE LETTING THIS HAPPEN.

  25. It’s illegal. Stay at work. They operate as though you’ll let them do what they want

  26. I’m willing to bet most agents think this way.

    But let’s just say 1/10 possibly former employees at CIA or FBI, decide that protecting American Democracy and the Constitution requires a more aggressive approach. (They swore an oath mind you.) To protect vs foreign and domestic…..

    In what universe do the replacements even have a chance vs decades worth of experience about to be forced out.

    When Elons private jet flys into the side of a mountain or Trumps whole family dies of polonium-210 poisoning. The conspiracy theories will run wild, but come on now. These are not unemployed j6’s that are about to be turned out.

    If you do not think that the people who have dedicated their lives to making sure bad days are rare, don’t know the recipe for very bad days, you are part of the problem.

    There are some buttons that you just don’t push… these are not fanatics or religious zealots. These are disciplined, patient, methodical individuals that are well aware how bad guys think. The easy mistakes won’t get made.. Iran or Antifa or the Russian will get the blame but thats just how it will be designed to look.

    Dark dark days

  27. Bigly huge thanks to the person who wrote this. We need more, much more of this. Even with buggy AI dark maga billionaire bros cannot do anything about good people. 

  28. I’m a little disappointed. I was expecting the letter to be less self-centered and more about the grave danger our country is in. Every individual of any authority (military, FBI, CIA, politicians, All federal employees) needs to let America know what is happening. I don’t mean the racists attacks and ask the side show bits, but the complete eradication of all checks and balances. There is nothing stopping Rump and Muskrat from transferring US funds directly into their bank accounts. The inmates have overtaken the asylum. We at Defcon 1, for real.

  29. I am at full alert and attention, but what do I do with that???

  30. These agents will sue, and win. They’ll get paid a lot, and deserve it.

    You and I, the taxpayers, will foot the bill.

    FAAFO

  31. A lot of comments here are missing the point of this coup and the warning. This is a plan to get rid of any agents who will stand in the way of fascism or investigate it, for that matter. And it is how yes man, akin to the nazi SA/brown shirts, will be put in as their replacements.

  32. So when is the US army going to stop this clusterfuck bomb of a government ?

  33. Isn’t the FBI famously extremely conservative? I’m sure they do good work but the shock coming out of these agencies when we all had access to the information in project 2025 is something else.

  34. Here’s the thing – they’r enot going to stop at firing. They’re testing the waters right now for prosecution of opposition. They’re want to prosecute private companies and citizens for their positions. They want to institute religious directives that clearly and flagrantly defy the first amendment. They are literally ignoring the constitution to clear a path for total and complete control of the nation and its people.

    I can’t say it playnly enough – we are all in serious trouble. I don’t just mean Americans, but our (nor former) allies, our trade partners, the entire planet.

    Because they’re not going to stop. They smell blood and they’re going into a frenzy.

  35. …and replaced with career idiots with no skills or qualifications.

  37. God bless the FBI

    I was at Bourbon and beyond a couple of years ago . Ended up partying with a group hard core knuckleheads from my old college town. As we consumed way too much Alcohol and blunts, it turned out that one of the guys in our group worked for the FBI. He was being a great husband, as his wife and he were having a great time with the gang. “No shit, all that’s cool, hey who’s making the next liquor run for us before Pearl Jam takes the stage….

    I blame the Congress of the United States for this crisis. They. should have locked Trump up. Now the game is about to get real. The left is not ‘weak’ rather we are now considering our next move.

  38. you know, in a way, its kind of like the chickens came home to roost ain’t it? FBI spent decades fucking with groups like the Panthers, doing people dirty, keeping files on people like Billie Holiday and John Lennon, and now they got a worse baddie than them.

    Don’t get me wrong- i do not want the FBI to go away. They are past the days of J. Edgar Hoover. As a true crime nerd I know that they do important work. I can see it in a level headed way.

    But part of me is like, “Welp, did you guys fight the REAL bad guys hard enough? Or were you more interested in bullshit nobody cared about?”

    This is all awful.

    period. But, see above….

  39. Yeah… I do not think the people doing the firing find the result to be BAD.

    They are HOPING to have a crisis to respond to with MORE authoritarianism.

  40. Put your name on it. We don’t need four more years of rogue potus staff bullshit.

  41. Unfortunately, I fear this was written at too high of a reading level to get through to anybody who needs to read it

  42. Leopards ate my face moment as I bet a few of these guys voted for Dump

  43. Where the fuck were these people BEFORE the election?

    How many times have I heard that the FBI is “Trumpland” – now that the Pied Piper is coming for them, they freak out? Fucking clowns.

  44. I’ve known about who Trump is ever since I was around 12-13 in the **early-mid 90’s**.

    I don’t need a warning, I’ve known who he is and has been for **decades**.

    This is why I voted against him and did EVERYTHING I could to make sure NO ONE made the **unbelievably**, **unfathomably idiotic, moronic, stupid, depraved, uneducated, disgusting choice of voting in that absolute sack of human fucking FILTH, Donald fucking Trump.**

    My plan did not work.

    I’m plenty aware of the dangers we now cannot avoid. I knew of them BEFORE everyone voted. I knew of his unique set of dangers since the NINENTIES. ***Where the absolute fuck was everyone else?***

  45. Wow cool a letter. Sure do wish the link here sent me to the letter instead of some video about the letter. ffs

  46. It’s weird. Conservatives are literally assembling a gestapo in front of our very eyes and we’re unable to do anything about it. This fucking sucks.

  47. I can’t help but think our new administration are Russian operatives bring down this country. I have no other explanation of what other could be going on.

  48. People have been sufficiently warned. People with an ounce of a brain didn’t need to be warned in the first place. The uncomfortable truth is that large numbers of people either (a) WANTED all the corrupt and incompetent stuff headed our way or (b) just couldn’t be bothered to care.

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