During a Wednesday appearance on Ana Cabrera Reports, MS NOW national security and intel analyst and former assistant special agent in charge at the FBI Michael Feinberg claimed the FBI was losing capable leaders and wasting power, which has put the country at risk of a serious terrorist-like threat.

When asked about the dramatic leadership shakeup at the FBI, Feinberg vehemently whined there was “zero question that the FBI is less effective than it was before January 20th” due to forcing “out all the senior executives with the most experience in the organization.”

Feinberg’s best evidence? The failure to prevent the murder of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk:

The special agent in charge of Salt Lake City was an individual who had extensive experience in crisis events and counterterrorism operations. But she was pushed out a few weeks before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And we saw what a Keystone Cops routine that investigation was in the immediate aftermath.

No. If anything, we saw Director Kash Patel speak publicly before he should have, and that surveillance technology wasn’t as intrusive as conventionally assumed. Kirk’s death was not a failure on the FBI’s part.

Feinberg expanded his characterization of weakening aptitude onto the larger FBI body and portrayed its immigration efforts as frivolous:

… you’ve lost subject matter expertise. You have taken up to a quarter to a third of the workforce at any given time and detailed them to another agency to do immigration operations against children and grandmas. The FBI has not gotten an increase in resources or personnel in quite some time.  So, by definition, if you take that much of the workforce and take them out of the mix for the FBI’s traditional responsibilities, those responsibilities just are not getting done.

The federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigrants isn’t about humiliating “children and grandmas.” It’s about protecting American sovereignty and benefitting legal citizens. Feinberg should know better.

Back in September, MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian made a similar accusation against the FBI, tying together the Kirk assassination, the reallocation of resources towards illegal immigration enforcement and the threat of domestic terrorism, which was equally as ludicrous.

The worst thing about the personnel changes? The impending doom of an attack on U.S. soil: “We are at a much greater risk of a major national security incident than we’ve ever been before, simply because the people keeping watch are not being allowed to do so.”

Nonsensical. This former fed, who quit his job at the FBI after President Trump came back into power, likely holds an ideological grudge. Don’t expect reliable commentary from him anytime soon.

The transcript is below. Click “expand” read:

MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera Reports

November 26, 2025

11:13:02 a.m. EST

ANA CABRERA: But when you have upheaval at the FBI, at the very top and don’t — not to mention all the other leadership roles that have been, sort of, dismantled or people who’ve held those roles being, you know, let go, what does that mean for the FBI’s work and its ability to function effectively?

MICHAEL FEINBERG; Oh, there is zero question that the FBI is less effective than it was before January 20th by orders of magnitude. First of all, you forced out all the senior executives with the most experience in the organization. The special agent in charge of Salt Lake City was an individual who had extensive experience in crisis events and counterterrorism operations. But she was pushed out a few weeks before Charlie Kirk was assassinated. And we saw what a Keystone Cops routine that investigation was in the immediate aftermath.

So, you’ve lost subject matter expertise. You have taken up to a quarter to a third of the workforce at any given time and detailed them to another agency to do immigration operations against children and grandmas. The FBI has not gotten an increase in resources or personnel in quite some time.

So, by definition, if you take that much of the workforce and take them out of the mix for the FBI’s traditional responsibilities, those responsibilities just are not getting done. We are at a much greater risk of a major national security incident than we’ve ever been before, simply because the people keeping watch are not being allowed to do so.