'Putting the nation in jeopardy': Trump's FBI chief plans mass layoffs -- and a lot more

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Source: Raw Story

August 15, 2025 7:06PM ET


President Donald Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel is planning massive changes to the nation's top law enforcement agency, which experts fear would cripple their ability to keep America safe.

The news was reported by MSNBC's Ken Dilanian on Friday evening.

"FBI Director Kash Patel is imposing changes aimed at transforming the bureau into a national police force focused on violent crime, current and former officials tell MSNBC — at the expense, they say, of the FBI’s longstanding role protecting U.S. national security from terrorists, hackers and spies," wrote Dilanian on X. "On a national call Thursday, top FBI official Jodi Cohen informed the heads of more than 50 FBI field offices that Patel plans to equip FBI agents with tasers; that all agents are expected to spend time investigating violent crime; and that the bureau will begin allowing other federal law enforcement agents to join the FBI after an abbreviated training, whether or not they have a college degree."

FBI agents typically carry firearms, but rarely tasers or other "less-lethal" weapons common among municipal patrol officers. At the same time, Dilanian reported, Patel plans a dramatic staffing cut at the bureau, with "plans to cut around 15 percent of its workforce — 5,800 people from a total of around 37,000, the FBI field office leaders were told, according to the sources."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-kash-patel-2673888718/

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1. " join the FBI after an abbreviated training "

What type of training? Expressing your loyalty to president buffoon? Making sure you look the other way when the govt does something criminal?

[popsdenver]

9. Making room for all the

insurrectionists he pardoned, as well as Militia Members from across the U.S.

We can be sure that Trump and Republican Fascists will weed out all the Non-MAGAot agents to create openings........................

[Omnipresent]

2. In other words, they want eliminate any "embedded deep state employees".

Then they can replace them with their own. Otherwise, this move makes no sense.

[Biophilic]

3. More and more of their "private" police force.

[Bluetus]

5. The "I" in FBI is for Investigation

And that means seeking the truth about people violating laws.

This administration has no use for laws or truth, therefore no need to many investigators. They can simply lock up and torture anybody they want now without any due process.

[Native]

8. Exactly

[Lovie777]

4. GQP have put the USA in danger...................

we are not safe from within nor from outside. Inviting a murderous dictator proved that.

[lonely bird]

6. Impeach him now

This is directly dangerous to the country.

[Hey Joe]

7. It's the enshitification of absolutely everything

that used to actually work in this country.
They are the destroyers of competence, integrity and decency.
Never in my life have I ever imagined that this nation would be brought so low as it is now.

[kimbutgar]

10. Sounds like they are setting up a police state to scare us into submission to the orange pedo felon.

[red dog 1]

11. K&R

'Putting the nation in jeopardy': Trump's FBI chief plans mass layoffs — and a lot more

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— TrumpSumpPump1 (@trumpsumpump1.bsky.social) 2025-08-16T17:57:56.617Z

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Thank you! Fixed.

I had been looking at both of them at post time and copied the wrong link.

[KPN]

12. Not to worry. That's what all the ICE money is for

— to provide backfill of sorts for FBI reductions. Plus easier recruiting, no education or 4-digit IQ requirements in ICE hiring.

[Karasu]

14. "...changes aimed at transforming the bureau into a national police force focused on violent crime."

Oh, boy. Yet another one.

How many national police forces do these fascists fucking need?!

[Evolve Dammit]

15. He said he wanted to turn FBI HQ into a "museum." This should surprise no one.

[MissouriDem47]

16. Putin Loves It

Putin applauds anything and everything TACO and his administration does to weaken the US.