FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration are leaving the U.S. vulnerable to espionage as they push the bureau to focus on immigration and adopt a more decentralized structure, former top agents are warning.
Under the Trump administration, the FBI has said it plans to relocate around 1,500 agents out of Washington, D.C., and has reassigned roughly a quarter of agents — up to 40 percent in some big-city field offices — to pursue immigration-related cases, rather than the bureau’s more typical anti-crime and national security work.
