Trump to lower FBI recruiting standards

[Crepitus]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

wait, aren't they firing agents left and right under the guise of "cutting waste and fraud"?

But they are lowering standards to hire more?

Does this not raise alarm bells for anyone?

 

[Crepitus]

The Dems are going to now suggest Trump is looking to create a federal police state,

But only because it's true.

 

[Rambunctious]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

Good no more Harvard grads....

 

[JLW]

Do you think Comey had high standards?

Comey was a political appointee. We are talking about the recruitment of new agents that are to protect the nation against cartels, espionage and terrorism…but hey..why bother with standards for agents.,,eh?

 

[JLW]

Good no more Harvard grads....

Out with the Harvard grads and in with the GEDs…that will really make us more secure!

 

[Blaster]

Comey was a political appointee. We are talking about the recruitment of new agents that are to protect the nation against cartels, espionage and terrorism…but hey..why bother with standards for agents.,,eh?

The standards will be good so don't fret.

 

[Concerned American]

So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism.

As we learned during the past 30 years or so, college education does not guarantee education, intelligence or smarts. Industry required college education for salaried positions nearly exclusively from about 95 until 2010 and discovered it was a major mistake. Democrats with their college provided indoctrinations were exposed for the phonies they were. LMAO, meritocracy!

 

[JLW]

wait, aren't they firing agents left and right under the guise of "cutting waste and fraud"?

But they are lowering standards to hire more?

Does this not raise alarm bells for anyone?

ShockedCanadian raised the issue as well. It was also raised by FBI agents that Trump wants to turn the FBI into a type of federal police. From the NYTs article:

“Current and former agents said they worried that the changes would transform the bureau from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force. One of Mr. Patel’s favorite sayings is “let good cops be cops,” which grates on many agents who privately point out that they are not, in fact, cops.”

 

[Blaster]

ShockedCanadian raised the issue as well. It was also raised by FBI agents that Trump wants to turn the FBI into a type of federal police. From the NYTs article:

“Current and former agents said they worried that the changes would transform the bureau from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force. One of Mr. Patel’s favorite sayings is “let good cops be cops,” which grates on many agents who privately point out that they are not, in fact, cops.”

The FBI was weaponized under Obama and went after his political foes.

 

[Rambunctious]

Out with the Harvard grads and in with the GEDs…that will really make us more secure!

A lot of American heros only had GED's my friend.... Thousands of retired military with combat experience get pushed out by Harvard grads because of a stupid rule...
Trump fixed it....

 

[Concerned American]

Trump's the best at lowering standards.

Like Biden, Harris, Omar, Tlaib, AOC, Newscum, Piglosi and Warren are raising the bar, eh? You're a moron.

 

[Scoutster]

I'd hire them over a college grad.

 

[Auld Phart]

Trump's the best at lowering standards.

Democrats did that when they voted for Biden

 

[whitehall]

A college degree? Is that what's making the NYT hysterical? How many people are aware that democrat icon Harry Truman was the only president who lacked a college degree? The NYT didn't care at the time.

 

[pknopp]

Democrats did that when they voted for Biden

Its been going downhill for years.

 

[knuckles]

I think highly educated are more susceptible to brainwashing. The Covid Shit Showed proved that to be true.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Do you think Comey had high standards?

Peter Stzrok and Lisa Paige had standards?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine the agency’s primary mission of conducting complex investigations and tracking threats to national security.…

Under a plan pushed by the director, Kash Patel, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. will start welcoming new classes of recruits who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree…

The new plan, current and former agents say, seems to be part of a larger effort by Mr. Patel to have the bureau focus more on street crime, rather than on complicated cases touching on financial fraud, public corruption and national security. Doing so, they added, will erode the bureau’s reputation as an elite law enforcement agency, known for its selectiveness about its recruits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/fbi-agent-recruitment-requirements-trump.html

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So, the FBI is lowering its FBI recruitment standards so that now FBI agents no longer will need a college degree because as we all know we don’t need educated or smart agents working on counter terrorism. I do find it interesting that Kash Patel doesn’t want the FBI to focus on investigating financial fraud or public corruption…gee I wonder why…LOL

Oh noooes, the FBI has to lower the standards for the new alleged "meritocracy"

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

This is a good thing.

WHY?!?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Trump loves intellects who graduated from the top schools so this can't be his idea

Yeah, this is why he's been going after the top ivy leagues schools in the nation, because "he loves intellects".

Actually it's the other way around, he destroys the things that remind him of what he'll never be or that intrude upon his fairy tale version of how life in the U.S. was/is/is supposed to be.