F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
Posted by nycdiveshack@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 86 comments
Posted by nycdiveshack@reddit | PrepperIntel | View on Reddit | 86 comments
Harper_Sketch@reddit
I got an add to join while browsing YouTube. Was horrified to see my incompetent-self qualified for everything except for being too old by a couple years. Makes me wonder if they purged the place and are looking for incompetent thugs.
ActiveSurprise172@reddit
Should we point out how lowering standards was viewed as permissible when it was regarding female firefighters, military and Indian truck drivers?
Cambwin@reddit
Requirements - 80-90 IQ, blind loyalty to the administration, ability to "just follow orders".
Can't wait to have my door kicked in my former Drive Thru workers for thought-crimes againsty the Almighty Glorious Leader of the United States of Amerika.
build_a_bear_for_who@reddit
They already lowered the standards a long time ago. Hope they set the bar even lower.
Opening_Proposal_165@reddit
No more Ivy League traitors, get some real Americans back into the agency
RachelRegina@reddit
~~Bachelor's Degree~~ Have seen The Punisher
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
I hope Deborah Edith Ann Thomas-Heaty finds them in good health and soon but it’s nothing going to happen
Soci3talCollaps3@reddit
They are trying to make it easier for Maga to qualify.
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
I’m so sorry that he is running everything into the ground. It will take a long time to recover from.
InsanityRoach@reddit
IMO, the US won't recover. We've hit a time in civilization were there are no more "catch up" mechanisms. Once a state starts declining, it'll only keep declining. And if it becomes a failed state, that will be that.
ChallengingBullfrog8@reddit
Yupp, America is circling the drain rn. You could elect AOC to president and she would get blocked by corporations and henchmen in the senate.
ChallengingBullfrog8@reddit
We won’t recover it from it. No president has undone the damage of Reagan, Clinton, or W Bush yet.
WaltzIntrepid5110@reddit
On the plus side, incompetent FBI does mean it will be easier to resist the authoritarian regime they are trying to build.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
The folks behind all this are people like Russ Vought (head of the office of budget management and primary author of project 2025) and Howard Lutnick (commerce secretary and former Cantor Fitzgerald which is the biggest supporter of the heritage foundation). They want an era of isolationism for the U.S. because they think this country can prosper with the right access to raw materials and straight labor. It’s why they are working on shutting down access to proper education, having Trump go on and on about acquiring Canada and Greenland which is partly for resources and accessibility but also as a buffer zone to the rest of the world. They have been convinced into thinking AI will figure out all the problems with Elon Musk (SpaceX/Starshield/Starlink/Grok) and Peter Thiel/Palantir.
Palantir is what found Elon his adult and kids DOGE team which most people have forgotten is really USDS which has access to most federal agencies. Understand that the decision by Trump to fire the NSA chief and his deputy may be in fact be the most dangerous decision Trump has made so far. Timothy Haugh like his last 2 predecessors were restricting the access and control Peter Thiel had through his company Palantir over the CIA/NSA to commit domestic surveillance. Palantir (just got $10 BILLION contract with the US government) who is now the biggest defense contractor for the CIA/NSA based on publicly available data on DOD contracts (they had $750 million added to their current contract a while back) along with providing day-to-day operations for both agencies. Palantir is contracted with state and local governments and police here in the U.S. The goal for Palantir is and always has been domestic surveillance. Palantir is an intelligence corporation which provides advanced analysis, sigint, osint, criminal and threat awareness and kill chain efficiencies to all levels of US, UK, and corporate agencies.
Now comes the push for removing Trump from office.
Elon was the early test to see if scapegoat mechanism would work and it sort of did for him. Which is sort of the plan, scapegoat mechanism at its finest. Peter is a key believer of scapegoat mechanism for which he says Trump fills that role. Thiel has been grooming JD Vance since 2011 as his benefactor and mentor, Thiel brought Vance to Mar-a- Lago to smooth over things with Trump so Vance could be VP, Thiel gave Vance $15 million in donations to run for Senate (the largest amount of money ever donated to a single Senate candidate ever)
Scapegoat mechanism is simple that you have someone in power take on a lot of bad actions then remove them and so the masses feel it’s been all undone. The test case was Elon and DOGE which worked perfectly seeing as how all the federal investigations into Elon are gone and DOGE is still at all the federal agencies. Elon’s employee Amanda Scales still has the private server setup at OPM. All the data they got from the federal agencies and Treasury department when they had hard physical access is still under their control.
In September when the gap fund bill signed in March expires along with the deferred resignation program kicking in and the SSA/IRS data being handed over to Palantir as part of the doge plan they have provided for updating the SSA system there could be a lot of reasons for him to be removed from office.
Peter Thiel/Palantir just got what they wanted, access to a big enough database for the first step in complete surveillance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/trump-citizenship-database
Peter is also a major defense contractor for the UK intelligence community and army along with the major police forces in the UK. He branched out to their healthcare a few years ago with a contract to shift through all the data at NHS England which is done now so Kier announced that NHS England will be shutdown (not NHS). Peter through his company has full access to Norway’s government and civilian surveillance services. Peter/Palantir provides direct support for the IDF (Israel) in all their operations from Gaza to the West Bank to Iran.
Thiel directly owns roughly 180 million publicly traded shares which 7%. His investment firm Rivendell 7 owns 34 million publicly traded shares. Other Thiel vehicles own 37 million shares. Thiel entities also own 32.5 million supervoting Class B shares in Palantir. Those class b shares carry 10 votes while public ones carry only 1 vote per share. Now here is the kicker for why he still controls Palantir (link below), Thiel has sole investment power over 335,000 class F shares as part of a trust that has 49.99% voting interest in the company.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/palantir-stock-chairman-peter-thiel-b63415c7
Alex Karp the ceo of Palantir knew Thiel well before 2003 when Thiel tapped him to be ceo. Karp has condemned “woke” ways of thinking, calling woke a central risk to Palantir, that Palantir is a counter-example to companies he considers woke. Karp condemned pro-Palestine protests calling them an infection inside of our society, he remarked the peace activists are war activists and they should be sent to North Korea. Karp has said the west has a superior way of living and said he supports Palantir contract with ICE and using the software to enable separation of families.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/01/alex-karp-hill-summit-trump-00155571
Peter Thiel
• born in West Germany, grew up and went to school in the city of Swakopmund in West South Africa, the city was notorious for its continued glorification of Nazism to a dad who was an engineer working on uranium which was in violation of international law
• Partners with Elon Musk at PayPal, early investor in Facebook
• self-proclaimed Christian nationalist, believes women right to vote is wrong, idolizes Curtis Yarvin and Yarvin’s philosophy on replacing democracy with authoritarianism all in Peter’s own book
• Palantir after its creation in 2003 was bailed out partly by In-Q-Tel the CIA’s venture capital firm
mortalitylost@reddit
First time I've heard it put so succinctly into words, but ive been theorizing this has been the case since at least Bush Jr /Obama. I first noticed it when Bush made the Patriot act, and i was expecting Obama to undo it... when he didn't and it became the new norm, I realized this had to be by design, especially since no one cared anymore.
krazay88@reddit
lmao, that’s just called machiavelli Machiavelli spoke of a king who used a general to do all of his dirty work and then executed him to regain the people’s favour
agent_mick@reddit
Trump is a symptom, not the disease. No war but class war
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
Federal elections and to an extent state elections may seem daunting because of funding but there are a lot of elections that people can run for sometimes mostly unopposed. The local/township/district/council/co-op/school board/county, basically any governing body elections require little to low funding with mostly paperwork. The lower ones affect your day to day, the higher ones affect you long term and the folks around you.
Honestly the solution is an age problem. I’m 38 and I like many saw some of the signs early on but didn’t do anything. You saw it too, we all did. The elderly have been running politics forever and they were happy with the status quo because both parties were being corrupted with donations by the companies. Folks like Peter Theil and firms like Cantor Fitzgerald saw an opportunity, not just that but they saw the bigger picture while elderly politicians became a cycle of politics.
As I said earlier I’m 38, more specifically I grew up and still live in New York City. The suburbs but still the city. Here we have had our share of villain politicians. The problem is they were replaced but not the old ones who stayed in power here and in other states. Chuck Schumer has held his seat of power for over 20 years, Mitch McConnell has held his seat for even longer. Term limits should have been a thing for the Supreme Court. I’m still angry Ruth Ginsburg in her arrogance thought at 80 and surviving cancer twice shouldn’t resign even though Obama begged her to so he could replace her. Some time after that Scalia died and Mitch McConnell made up some bullshit about political norms that Obama in his last year of office couldn’t nominate someone and Obama like the rest of them Dems was weak and obliged even though there would have been no issues.
The Supreme Court would have never become this monster, Roe v wade would have remained, Trump would have never gotten political immunity and we would still have checks and balances. I’m still angry that Biden listened to his chief of staff who said make Garland your AG to remain unbiased. I’m angry Biden didn’t ignore political norms and fire Garland to replace him with someone competent. The elderly wanted the status quo of companies running healthcare.
All of it has to change and now. Folks 25-55 need to run/volunteer then run for local/district/county/township/council/board/city/state then eventually move up and run for federal to replace both parties with people who understand the toughness of life. Nancy Pelosi supported a 76 year old cancer patient over a 30 year old colleague for an oversight committee. The elderly caused while the younger generations did nothing.
If we do nothing now then it will truly be too late to ever do anything.
indel942@reddit
I only have one response to this: "Best laid plans...".
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
I wish, but this plan has been in the making since 2009
LittlehouseonTHELAND@reddit
Totally agree with everything you’ve said here. And Stacy Abrams would make a fantastic President. I was so hoping the powers that be in the Democratic Party would try to make that happen, maybe as a successor to Biden. Maybe someday.
ForthrightGhost@reddit
I agree with everything you’re saying except for the blame. All of us are to blame, mainly because we all have been ignorant of the systemic problem since this countries inception, but most importantly, you forgot to mention that evidence has risen that Trump had the election rigged and that both parties, which really have always been one party, have been working together very well to trick both Democrats and Republicans into thinking that there isn’t an oligarchy.
indel942@reddit
Damn right! Even now, look around you and try to find people who give a shit about what's happening. You won't find many. Most are asleep at the wheel or think it won't affect them. My mother lives overseas and I told her that I was planning my escape from here and she is worried that I am losing my marbles.
For the longest time, I used to think that dems were on people's side. That's true only to a very limited extent. Save a couple people like AOC and Bernie, they are all beholden to the same class of billionaires that republicans are. These people have golden parachutes and escape hatches planned already. They won't be the ones who would suffer when shit hits the fan.
Still, when all is said and done, the blame lies with us the people. If you don't vote, or don't vote based on rational thought, you are 100% complicit in the downfall of this country and you deserve every bit of shitstorm coming your way.
indel942@reddit
Understood and agreed.
LittlehouseonTHELAND@reddit
Totally agree with everything you’ve said here. And Stacy Abrams would make a fantastic President. I was so hoping the powers that be in the Democratic Party would try to make that happen, maybe as a successor to Biden. Maybe someday.
litreofstarlight@reddit
Gay people being Christian nationalists will never not be hilarious. He should look at how being fash-flavoured worked out for Ernst Röhm.
ApplicationNearby641@reddit
Great post.
United Corporations of America, here we are.
The thing i notice is the de-centralization of government cybersecurity and intelligence functions....they are firing people who will IMMEDIATELY have jobs in the private sector calling to them - federal knowledge gets shifted to private corporations... Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Crowd Strike -- the new "NSA"s are private, they often know faster than the NSA if cyber attacks are happening, have rival NSA capabilities....we are not naked.
The holes - small hospitals, energy grid systems, things that are not normally updated, things that are still running windows 98 in factories that are vulnerable.
The states or fed should catch up the security in those areas so they are not naked.
tmwdd85@reddit
Outstanding post. This should be everywhere.
N0n3of_This_Matter5@reddit
🏆🏆🏆🏆
PrudentLingoberry@reddit
thats the intention: run it into the ground, sell off the parts to the highest bidder
UncreativeIndieDev@reddit
Less and less do I think recovery as a nation is possible. I think, as Trump and his ilk tighten control more and more, we'll see the decline become more and more pronounced. At some point, either they'll just simply round up and kill anyone who is remotely against them, or the country will begin to splinter as even the most moderate of opponents realize there will be no democratic or legal method to end this as it is increasingly apparent there will be no elections allowed that challenge Trump’s power. Maybe it takes a few years when the Midterm elections are supposed to happen, four years when the next presidential election should happen, or just a few months when Trump figures the military has no one left to oppose him and decides even the slightest pretenses of democracy are no longer worth maintaining.
In the former scenario, we would likely end up like Russia: a fascist state where all meaningful elements of opposition have been eliminated and the ruling oligarchs can do as they wish as the remaining population accept despair as the norm and simply take their anger out on those marked as "others." I don't think there would be any chance of recovery in that scenario, at least without a major foreign intervention. Whereas you can find critiques of Russia that claim no democratic revolution has swept across it during the current war because they never had a real democracy to look up to, the U.S. would instead have the issue that the very ideas of what democracy, freedom, and rights would be so thoroughly distorted by its population that an open fascist dictatorship would seem the most free and democratic government in the world simply because it was American.
In the latter scenario, I think some parts of the U.S. could manage to break off and recover in their own ways, though certainly different from before. For example, California is the easiest to see trying to do so, but it is not uniform as a state. Go further inland, and you will find many conservative towns that would lynch the nearest liberals they could find in such a scenario. Thus, if California tried this, such towns would either not leave or be made desolate by the fighting that would likely wreck havoc there. So, the state, and similar states and territories if they go this path, would not be recovering from the position they are in today, but a far worse one especially when you consider how their connections with much of the rest of the U.S. would be severed. However, this might unfortunately be the only "hopeful" scenario that can still happen. At least in this case, some parts of the U.S. would still cling to democracy and the freedoms we once cherished and potentially chart a new more hopeful path if given enough time.
UrbanSolace13@reddit
It'll probably take 50 years to recover from four years. The next two generations are fucked.
DukeOfGeek@reddit
Republicans Ruin Everything.
wwaxwork@reddit
If they don't win the next election it slows the next government from coming after them.
ytman@reddit
How? With any willingness the Executive has all the means per Trump.
InsanityRoach@reddit
Dems never make use of those means.
Malcolm_Morin@reddit
Recover...?
FormerNeighborhood80@reddit
I still have hope. I still believe there are good people out there who will do the right thing. I can’t imagine our democracy being gone.
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
Don't be sorry. This is what Americans evidently wanted. What they paid for... what they deserve.
ytman@reddit
It will go global. They won't be able to just dominate the continent and succeed. US Empire and power is globally acquired.
Valar_Kinetics@reddit
Honestly the idea of working for CIA in this same “shit we need the dudes” capacity, as a mid-career industry changer, would be appealing lol. I don’t want to be involved with anything domestically, however.
ApprehensiveStand456@reddit
So you’re saying I have a chance!
MediumEvent2610@reddit
Pretty soon all you’ll need to be qualified for a government job is a “MAGA” hat.
alaskanslicer@reddit
squidwardsaclarinet@reddit
They hated the deep state because they wanted to be it.
WhereAreMyDarnPants@reddit
DylanFTW@reddit
They removed the age limit for ICE. Not even a joke.
carnivorewhiskey@reddit
Lower recruitment standards based on merit, correct? Is the merit just a Trump loyalty test? Chose Trump over the constitution and human rights.
ImSirius678@reddit
Order following thugs with guns, that’s all of em. Dea fbi cia ice local pd military branches etc doesn’t matter what uniform they wear. They hate you and will gladly stomp you out for a paycheck.
xcrunner1988@reddit
Of course. Trump doesn’t care about external threats. He is one. He’s concerned about crushing the opposition.
fullload93@reddit
Reduce training from 18 to 8 weeks (improper agent training), no college degree required (lack of intelligence, more thuggery), and over 5k employees laid off due to the budget cuts.
That stupid fucking Kash Patel and his assistant Dan Bongino are massive piece of shit who have no idea how to run this agency and WILL drive it into the fucking ground.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
They aren’t the ones behind this…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/jm8z2m2Ky3
Low-Ad-1448@reddit
So bots/foot soldiers
Nick85er@reddit
"Remember Quantico!" shall be their rallying cry.
Fuck fascism, and all the enablers allowing this to happen.
Doctor_Moon69@reddit
Does this mean I can actually fulfill my childhood dream of being a FBI agent?
One-Dot-7111@reddit
But i was told we were moving towards meritocracy
J0E_Blow@reddit
Not under Trump
ytman@reddit
The FBI being inept is going to be a spectacular thing.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
The problem is it’ll be ICE with the fbi resources and data
FindStrelok2020@reddit
No child left behind, but for federal agents? I’m sure it’ll be fine….
AlfredoCustard@reddit
So DEI?
iFuckingLoveBoston@reddit
Those agents are pussies and won't do a thing. Because they are pussies.
Likes2Phish@reddit
Trump's private gestapo
Cost_Additional@reddit
Tbf if you're shifting the scope and targets of the FBI why would you need the same exact training program?
Murder_Hobo_LS77@reddit
The only thing I want to see from federal law enforcement recruiting is a removal of the pseudo science(polygraph) and removing some of the administrative hurdles that plague the process.
Everyone should get the same background checks, the same disqualification factors, and an impartial oral board. As it stands pseudo science can disqualify applicants that should otherwise proceed through the process.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
Well they are only doing this because they convinced over 5000 agents to retire in September so they could say they saved money for the budget. Now they don’t care for any formal education and instead of 18 weeks at Quantico it’s only 8.
Murder_Hobo_LS77@reddit
Oh yeah el presidente bone spurs entire admin is full of short bus riders.
Just saying I don't mind change, but it needs to be positive change such as formally killing the polygraph industry law enforcement wide.
This is just going to give badges to dumbasses who won't know accountability if it bit them on the nose.
Outis918@reddit
Brb joining the FBI
Unfair_Inevitable934@reddit
They want the FBI to basically be federal street cops.
Malnar_1031@reddit
The plan is to blend all agencies as much as possible and then tell us what's the point of having multiple agencies when just one will do. And that's how the President creates his own private police force.
Ok-Vegetable-8170@reddit
Yes this exactly. That’s why it’s almost becoming difficult to distinguish between these federal agents working with police. Eventually they will all be wearing red T Armbands.
PoorClassWarRoom@reddit
We are jumping deep into taking full control of the violent arm of every level of government. Local PD, Sheriff, military, FEMA somehow, all the 3 letter agencies, etc.
I revoke my consent.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
It happened in 2017/2018 when Google left the intelligence community letting Palantir fill that role. Since then Palantir has slowly been working with the heritage foundation.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/WnjFxUlJs5
mar421@reddit
Detective Dewey reporting for duty.
Effective-Ebb-2805@reddit
The WHOLE administration, top to bottom, is the epitome of rock bottom standards. Good job, American electorate! Dumbasses! Here's a word for y'all: KAKISTOCRACY. The US has, at long-last, the government it deserves: a goddamn, true-to-life kakistocracy.
trebordet@reddit
How can you go any lower than lose at the top?
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
This is how…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/ght9yqLHMc
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/I5znDwvTgK
ShiningRayde@reddit
Elon Musk complaining about DEI lowering standards for doctors which would lead to deaths - in his mind, of course.
esepinchelimon@reddit
Requirement #1: Absolute loyalty to Don Diddler
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
For now….
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/xXiZuR4JY4
lordoftheslums@reddit
I swear this admins pandering to ten year old boy’s fantasy concept of being a GI Joe.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
More like this…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/za2wHc58Lj
flaginorout@reddit
So while this sounds like a bridge too far, I will say that I’ve heard opinions before that recruiting standards were ridiculously too high as well.
For years the FBI DQ’d applicants for basically ANYHTHING. Smoked weed a few times in college? Got a trespassing citation when you were 17? Got suspended from high school for a fistfight? No thanks.
They were recruiting absolute puritans, which was a pretty small pool. And they eventually realized that they were passing over some otherwise rockstar candidates in favor of mamma’s boys.
And the educational requirements got silly too. If you didn’t have an advanced degree or went to a top 20 school, your chances were slim.
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
Those aren’t standards they are reducing, instead of 18 weeks of training at Quantico it’s now 8 and no formal education is required
oRAPIER@reddit
Endgoal being to make sure party/ideological loyalists don't get weeded out by needing to run further than mom's basement or have baseline ethics, I suppose?
nycdiveshack@reddit (OP)
More like this…
https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/za2wHc58Lj