According to former FBI special agent Nicole Parker, there are two FBIs. FBI 1 is apolitical, professional, and focused on crime fighting. FBI 2 is woke, activist, and corrupt.

In her forthcoming book The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw in My Time in the Bureau, Parker offers a list of the reasons she left the FBI in 2022. They include COVID-19 hysteria; lies about the Hunter Biden laptop; “overkill” in prosecuting rioters from January 6, 2021; the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago; the targeting of conservative Catholics; and a general “social justice push” in the FBI.

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In short, the bureau went woke.

Parker’s book comes at a pivotal time for the FBI. Director Kash Patel has been touting the success of the bureau under his leadership. “200 Days of Trump Admin, From Jan 20 to Present: FBI has arrested over 1,600 people for violent crimes against children, to include 270 arrests for human trafficking,” Patel wrote on his official X account. He added that 1,500 kilos of fentanyl have been seized in that time.

Patel’s emphasis on fighting crime is a return to the bureau’s original mission after what many critics argue was a period of political activism. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claims to have uncovered “overwhelming evidence” that former President Barack Obama manipulated intelligence to “lay the groundwork for what was essentially a yearslong coup against President Trump.” 

A component of that alleged crime was the FBI under then-director James Comey. Comey has admitted to briefing President Trump in 2017 on the Steele dossier, a discredited report that claimed the president was involved in sordid behavior in Russia.

Nicole Parker’s The Two FBIs arrives as these scandals are playing out in public. It is an absorbing read. Parker’s tone is forthright and honest, her personal history compelling. It’s clear she sides with Kash Patel and FBI Assistant Director Dan Bongino in the belief that the bureau became weaponized and politicized to help the Democrats. 

Parker was on the fast track at an exciting financial career at Merrill Lynch in New York when the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred. Parker was in one of the World Trade Center towers when the planes hit, and the event caused her to rededicate herself to public service and join the FBI. “I am a traditional girl and had never intended to have an overly demanding career,” she writes.

Originally from a poor family in Houston, Parker was raised with values like honesty, honor, and having a deep faith in God, who is mentioned frequently in The Two FBIs. Parker is also not afraid to question authority, particularly if that authority was playing politics and making bad decisions.

The primary objective of her book is “to differentiate between the 2 FBIs.” Parker wants to “commend the outstanding work of FBI 1 while exposing the corruption and weaponization of FBI 2.” FBI 1 “is comprised of those who join the FBI with pure motives to serve Americans, putting the needs of victims first. They are ethical, honoring their oath to uphold the Constitution and protect in a fair and unbiased manner. They keep their heads low, stay off the radar, and work hard, doing the heavy lifting while pursuing noble cases without fanfare or self-promotion.”

FBI 2, on the other hand, is “comprised of FBI employees who abuse their law enforcement power to push their political and social agendas. Many are self-promoters in leadership positions, either at headquarters in DC or in executive management nationwide, while others are field agents or support staff. FBI 2 is not confined to one location or one role; its members interspersed throughout the agency from top to bottom. FBI 2’s mindset covers a broad spectrum, exuding haughty arrogance from some and blasé laziness from others.”

Parker concludes it is not “an overstatement to say that the FBI is embroiled in a civil war.”

According to The Two FBIs, change began at the agency when Robert Mueller became the director in 2001. Mueller transformed the FBI from being a criminal investigation agency and converted it into an intelligence agency. This began to “dilute the focus” of the bureau. 

“In conversations I had with people who had experienced the following decades,” Parker writes, “we concluded that dilution might have sown the seeds of many of FBI 2’s future problems. Indeed, the majority of FBI 2’s politicized issues have stemmed from the intelligence/national security side of the house. Mueller’s FBI prioritized collecting, aggregating, and dispensing intelligence rather than the traditional crime-fighting focus.”

Things got worse under James Comey, who was sworn in as the seventh FBI director on September 4, 2013. Comey had worked as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and as the deputy attorney general. 

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According to Parker, there were reservations about Comey from the start: “It bothered us that he had never been a special agent—never carried the gun or the badge, never drafted an operations plan, never put his life on the line. We agents wanted a director who had been one of us, who understood what it was like to walk in our shoes. In essence, he was yet another stuffy former US Attorney, like Robert Mueller, an extension of the DOJ and his former buddies there. We didn’t want that.”

Parker’s chapter on Comey is damning, from his excusing Hillary Clinton’s misuse of classified materials to his narcissism and political activism. The former director, concludes Parker, “caused irreparable damage” to the FBI.