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The report, scheduled to be presented to Congress later this week, is dubbed a "pulse check" of the FBI’s first six months of leadership from February through August under Cash Patel. It paints a bleak picture of the agency, claiming it suffers from longstanding issues—low confidence among agents, operational paralysis, and a deeply ingrained partisanship that hampers its effectiveness.
According to the report, the FBI has become a "chronically underperforming agency,” hampered by political bias and internal strife. The authors cite interviews with current and former agents, describing the agency as “debilitated,” with a culture tainted by fear and internal hostility.