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5 min readIn late September 2025, the FBI’s co-deputy director, Andrew Bailey, suddenly resigned. The official reason was wanting to spend more time with his family, but the cascade of events around his departure tells a different story. Bailey had been installed by the Trump administration to serve as a steady hand—a “grown up”—alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, who critics inside and outside the administration view as erratic. The breaking point appears to have been Patel’s decision to oust two senior counterterrorism agents in the Washington Field Office because they declined to investigate prank phone calls made to Stephen Miller’s wife as a counterterrorism matter. That demotion, along with Patel’s appearance at a wedding where he was photographed with a former FBI informant suspected of being a double agent, a catastrophic hack of the FBI’s own systems, and a planned trip to meet with Putin’s team, forms a pattern that former top DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer calls a corruption of the rule of law.
The Demotion That Broke the Camel’s Back
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- 2 (03:00) **Introduction: The Chaos at the FBI Under Kash Patel** - Host Ben Meiselas outlines multiple scandals unfolding at the FBI, including the sudden resignation of co-deputy director Andrew Bailey
- 3 (04:02) **FBI Hacked and Other Scandals** - The FBI website was catastrophically hacked by Shiny Hunters, exposing sensitive operational data
- 4 (04:48) **Kash Patel's Russia Trip and Mass Exodus** - Kash Patel is planning a trip to meet with Putin's team, while 2,600-2,900 FBI agents have resigned or been fired since January 2025
- 5 (06:04) **The Stephen Miller Prank Call Scandal** - Two senior FBI counterterrorism agents were ousted after refusing to escalate prank phone calls made to Stephen Miller's wife
- 6 (07:28) **Alina Habba's Wedding: Kash Patel with a Suspected Double Agent** - Trump's former lawyer married a Turkish billionaire, and Kash Patel attended alongside a man the FBI believed was a double agent
- 7 (09:19) **The Lawsuit from Fired FBI Officials** - Three top former FBI officials filed a lawsuit detailing their unlawful termination by Kash Patel
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Show Notes
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the sudden resignation of Andrew Bailey, one of FBI Director Kash Patel’s top deputies, amid sweeping departures from Trump’s FBI. Ben also interviews former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer about the turmoil inside the administration and what Bailey’s exit reveals about its leadership.
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