The New York Times is living up to its reputation as the Pravda on the Hudson. The Old Grey Lady was all too happy to show a little leg for the weaponized and highly politicized FBI of a necrotic Joe Biden, and the shadowy masters of the autopen. The Times is fond of humanizing monstrosities of totalitarianism. Famously, in the 1920s, the Times titled a piece on a young political figure—“New Popular Idol Rises in Bavaria.” A decade later, the world would come to know that Bavarian idol as Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany.
Its track record hasn’t improved since the 1920s, championing every iteration of despot produced humanity’s darkest impulses. So, one would expect the ideologues masquerading as journalists to undermine the debridement occurring under FBI Director Kash Patel’s watchful eyes. A rebalanced FBI, guided by facts and not narrative, politics, or ideology is an unsettling prospect for someone like NYT columnist Adam Goldman.
He recently penned a column titled, “Unease at the F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials.” But, the unease belongs to Goldman, and to liberals like him, who sense their grip on America’s finest law enforcement agency slipping by the day. The lawless are finding the return to law and order—led by an objective and fact-based federal investigative institution—existentially unsettling. The political corruption that has defined the Democrat party is now a target of the unblinking gaze of an institution that never sleeps.
Goldman has received the Pulitzer Prize on multiple occasions, including for his coverage of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election—a narrative later discredited when elements of Hillary Clinton’s opposition research were revealed to be the sole basis for FBI investigations influenced by Democrat interests. But Goldman doesn’t issue retractions, nor does the Pulitzer committee.
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Goldman reporting on Director Patel’s FBI is like asking Mohammaed al-Sahhaf (Baghdad Bob) to fact-check the Gulf War.
As an enterprise, the NYT published extensively and erroneously on the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation, managed by highly partisan and later discredited senior FBI officials. In February 2017, the NYT reported that Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials. All of this reporting has been subsequently debunked. Even former FBI Director Comey admitted the NYT had been inaccurate in its reporting. He stated, “In the main, it was not true.” The Paper of Record is simply a dedicated propaganda organ of world-wide totalitarianism, social marxism, and the Democrat party opposition research.
Most of Goldman’s recent column focuses on personnel issues, with a hefty sampling of quotes from Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino. Meanwhile, current FBI officials have been notably restrained in responding to his opinion piece disguised as reporting. Whenever the major premise of reporting is predicated on “sources who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation,” the journalistic equivalent of an X anon account, the author enters the realm of the tabloid.
However, an FBI spokesperson did respond to Goldman’s claims in a statement to Townhall, saying: “The Bureau under Director Patel remains focused on a singular mission: keeping the American people safe. Personnel decisions are made with that mission in mind, and any actions taken, whether restructuring or reform—reflect our commitment to restoring trust, protecting national security, crushing violent crime and ensuring the integrity of our operations.”
Goldman purports to be concerned about the obliteration of “decades of experience in national security and criminal matters.” But what strikes fear into his heart is the obliteration of politicized top cover. And that is precisely what Director Patel is laser focused on accomplishing.
One of his allegations implicates the use of polygraphs to weed out media leakers. Goldman sets the stage by implying the use of polygraphs has now been weaponized, and is used to cull unsuspecting agents in a dragnet of purist vengeance. However, as my trusted colleague Mr. Regan recently noted in a sharp and insightful Substack piece, “…polygraph has always been used. Especially in high profile/sensitive cases. Agents are sometimes asked to sign an additional NDA and [are] polygraphed before and after a major investigation. This also reflects my theory that few of Goldman's sources are onboard agents. Talking to the NYT (or any unauthorized media hit,) is not smart if you’ve been warned about polygraphs. Maybe just do your job.”
The inference here is that Goldman’s sources are likely the usual suspects—former senior executive service FBI officials, blindly partisan and routinely paraded out by CNN or MSNBC—individuals with personal axes to grind with the Trump administration. And likely, as Mr. Regan says, “were [the same people] whispering in Adam Goldman's ear during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, for which he got a Pulitzer despite being stunningly wrong.”
Goldman attempts to make a federal case out of “forced retirements” and Special Agent in Charge (SAC) transfers. But, personnel changes are an ever evolving, natural phenomenon based on a myriad of factors. In terms of SAC transfers, there’s nothing unusual about shuffling the deck. In fact, it can be a sign of a healthy leadership cadre. Again from my colleague, Mr. Regan, “‘Special Agents in Charge were previously rarely removed.’ Really? I could write a book about SACs I’ve known who were taken out over Inspection issues, morality issues, food fights with the U.S. Attorney and DOJ, and a host of other reasons.”
Finally, Goldman weakly points to the dissolution of a single public corruption squad at the Washington Field Office. Goldman is understandably distressed, since that was the squad which supported former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s fruitless, banana-republic-style inquest.
Goldman laments the deconstruction of policies and structures forged with hammer and sickle by Barack Hussein Obama in an attempt to remake the FBI in the image of the KGB. That isn’t hyperbole—it’s the objective of social Marxists like Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrats who played sock puppet with Joe Biden. Thank God for Kash Patel and the good men and women of the FBI.