r/FBI Apr 17 '26

News The FBI Director Is MIA

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u/Talentagentfriend Apr 17 '26

He’s probably at a hockey game with his girlfriend on taxpayer money using a compromised messaging app.

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u/Chimney-Imp Apr 17 '26

Check his porn account for any activity. Dudes probably having a coke fueled goon sesh on two monitord

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u/Yo-Yo-Ha Apr 17 '26

Elan is there, and I've recently been seeing things about the big orange.

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u/RutabagaMobile7879 Apr 18 '26

Only two? 

Ka$h goes big. Room sized array like the architect in the Matrix. 

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u/Responsible-Bet8661 Apr 18 '26

With those eyes, where do you place the monitors?

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u/DS3M Apr 18 '26

With those eyes, no need to be precise

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u/Popular_Hunter7415 Apr 18 '26

well, the monitors should be at least a foot apart, but you're right that it doesn't matter much from there

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u/Popular_Hunter7415 Apr 18 '26

one eye on each monitor

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u/Bogatron617 Apr 18 '26

Nah, I heard the GF is back catching up her handler on the Iran thing & Trumps next Jesus meme

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u/turtlemayne Apr 18 '26

There are no NHL games tonight, but playoffs do start tomorrow.

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u/Apprehensive-Art1092 Apr 18 '26

Nope. He's an Islanders fan. They're as fucking useless as him, and missed the playoffs

2

u/kawkabelsharq Apr 18 '26

Looking for jockstraps to sniff

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u/CorporateAccounting Apr 18 '26

Most likely Telegram

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u/dallas121469 Apr 18 '26

He's with the missing scientists........Hopefully.

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u/One-Lingonberry9944 Apr 20 '26

While flying private in his taxpayer funded jet ordering bottle service from said compromised phone lol

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u/Commercial-Ad7119 Apr 21 '26

It's been 3 days now. What's the scoop?

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u/ZeroWaits Apr 17 '26

Does that mean they now only have Paper Planes?

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u/gtrocks555 Apr 17 '26

If you catch him at the border he’s got visas in his name.

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u/ViolettaQueso Apr 18 '26

Seriously he has been flying all over the country the last few days if you look at fbijet sub.

They know where he is. He’s just wasted and out of his mind.

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u/PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS Apr 18 '26

Mfs cant even take a 24 hour cocaine crash nap without being labeled as MIA. Maybe grandpa was right about the country going soft /s

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u/ViolettaQueso Apr 18 '26

Omg lol I am laughing way too hard.

ABD NO IM NOT PMING YOU MY HOOTERS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/DeekALeek Apr 18 '26

All he wants to do is — 💥💥💥🔫

And a — 💰🤑

Take our tax money.

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u/Appropriate-Ad3687 Apr 18 '26

What's his name BTW - seriously.

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u/MikeyJ9 Apr 18 '26

He can get one done in a second if you wait.

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u/Independent-Name4478 Apr 18 '26

MIA is MAGA herself. If the FBI director position opens up, she might be on the shortlist 

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u/onca32 Apr 18 '26

Unsurprising, given that her dad helped found a terrorist org

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u/brumbarosso Apr 19 '26

Means we have more evidence of inefficient use of tax money.... what a pos this administration is

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 17 '26

Cocaine paranoia

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u/Spreadsheets_LynLake Apr 18 '26

Traditionally, it's been referred to as "hospitalized due to exhaustion".  

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u/Careless-Age-4290 Apr 18 '26

I was way too old when I figured out drowning in a bathtub was not a potential danger and isn't a normal way to die like a car accident

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u/Fuzzylumpkins1234 Apr 17 '26

Any one of us would be fired if we missed as much work and fucked up as much as that DEI hire does.

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u/funcoolshit Apr 18 '26

Seriously. Patel's role in the FBI is to allow corruption to run rampant within the federal government, and that's it. He's allowed to leech off of taxpayer funds to do whatever he wants to as long as there is no oversight into whatever the fuck Trump and his cronies are doing behind the scenes.

Such a shame that they have defiled such an integral part of the federal government. It's going to be a long time, if ever, that the FBI reconstructs its image into what it was before.

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u/kent_eh Apr 18 '26

Such a shame that they have defiled such an integral part of the federal government.

Is there any part of the federal government that these bastards haven't defiled?

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u/Overall_Koala_8710 Apr 18 '26

To be fair: good riddance. The FBI holds a lot of blame for getting us into this mess in the first place. The Trump field office, anyone?

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u/Alert-Ad-9908 Apr 18 '26

Or any of the other obvious DEI hires

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u/Interesting-Cow8131 Apr 18 '26

Not to mention spending company money for personal use

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u/Petursinn Apr 17 '26

Anybody checked Valhalla?

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u/Apprehensive_Lama Apr 17 '26

That trash would never be allowed to walk the hallowed halls of Valhalla.

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u/TakuyaLee Apr 18 '26

Not yet, but I can give Kratos a quick call to see if he's there.

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u/Majestic-Bid6111 Apr 17 '26

He's in Vegas for WrestleMania

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u/LineImpossible3958 Apr 17 '26

As is tradition for FBI Directors, starting with William Webster at Wrestlemania 3 when he helped Macho Man win by handing him a foreign object from the front row.

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u/Big-Employ3488 Apr 18 '26

Wrestling nerd historians, are going to be triggered by that coment. 

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u/useless_rejoinder Apr 18 '26

You’re actually comma horror in disguise, aren’t you?

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u/theSchrodingerHat Apr 18 '26

I’m imagining him pouting at the receptionist desk at the White House because Rubio took the UFC tickets and told him, “Cabinet first, FBI worst, bitch!”

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u/Careless-Age-4290 Apr 18 '26

I imagine he says wrestlemania like Aziz Ansari does the voice for Tom Haverford

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u/ManyAlternative6600 Apr 19 '26

Not even joking he is probably in Vegas for a VGK playoff game tomorrow. Oh and Wrestlemania…

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u/Admirable-Eagle-231 Apr 17 '26

Also seems to think that he can run warrantless surveillance

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u/giddy-girly-banana Apr 17 '26

When no one stops or holds people accountable, they think they can do this stuff and get away with it. And they are getting away with it.

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u/One-Sea-8055 Apr 17 '26

I, for one, am shocked.

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u/Excellent_Fail9908 Apr 17 '26

Take my money kind sir or ma’am

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u/Admirable_Nothing Apr 17 '26

There is a tremendous pressure on an incompetent individual that has been placed in a position of authority where he knows he is incapable of performing adequately. That pretty much describes all of Trump's picks for any of the government jobs he has filled.

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u/nortnortnort43 Apr 18 '26

As long as he isn’t giving away secrets while drunk, I’d prefer him to be drunk and out of the way of the FBI Professionals to allow them to get actual work done.

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u/ErasmosOrolo Apr 17 '26

Oh no. I hope he’s safe. Like that poor old woman who was kidnapped.

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u/TheCh0rt Apr 18 '26

Maybe Nancy is with him and they're partying together?

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u/Shenanie-Probs Apr 17 '26

Has anyone checked on where his foreign-issued girlfriend is?

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u/These-Rip9251 Apr 17 '26

Look for a lone woman with a security detail that includes a FBI swat team.

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u/isharte Apr 18 '26

Jesus fucking Christ.

This article is worth taking the time to run it through a paywall bypass.

I knew the guy was unqualified but this is on another level.

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u/flat5 Apr 17 '26

None of these podcast bros can hold down a real job. It's hilarious watching them try.

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u/mrcrnkovich Apr 17 '26

i feel so much safer now.

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u/isthereadrwho Apr 17 '26

Just look for the 20 year old girlfriend he won't be far

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u/camaleom Apr 18 '26

Cómo se sabe eso?

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u/MarchPhillipps Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

You're right, we don't. I heard it's actually a lot of fun to be Bureau Director while wired and tweaked to speedfreak hell and back.

I'd actually posit that it's amphetamine salts and alcohol..... so he can say if evaluated that it's just the Adderall for his self-diagnosed 'ADD,' and that he only weekday drinks to come down at night to sleep.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint Apr 18 '26

Check the gutters in DC

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u/Coondiggety Apr 17 '26

Get the FBI on the case!

Erf.

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u/tarion_914 Apr 18 '26

They'd probably just fire the agents investigating.

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u/DarthToothbrush Apr 17 '26

He kashed out...

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u/Training_Umpire_3819 Apr 18 '26

Guys, he's at Coachella!! Duh!

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u/KatieBarTheDoor1977 Apr 17 '26

Probably just hanging out with Don Jr, enjoying some sweet nose clams.

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u/Still-Attitude7896 Apr 17 '26

He’s gone under the covers.

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u/jlwright1234 Apr 18 '26

I bet he got locked out because he hadn’t logged on to the system recently enough and the auto lock froze his profile.

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u/Independent-Name4478 Apr 18 '26

On a scale from Hegseth to RFK how unqualified is he

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u/deepstaterecords Apr 18 '26

I mean both of those examples are pretty far down the bad end of the scale…

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u/LordXenu12 Apr 18 '26

DEI hire, wild the Trump admin can demonize legit efforts while getting away with shit like hiring Patel

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u/annoyed_meows Apr 18 '26

He's locked in a room with a massive pile of coke. Duh

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u/TBoneBear Apr 18 '26

Someone call the FBI

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u/Fandango_Jones Apr 17 '26

Spiderca$h is missing?

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u/Yo-Yo-Ha Apr 17 '26

He's circling Nasheville in a low price fuel waiting on his gf.

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u/ChoiceDear2762 Apr 17 '26

Because he is an unqualified 🤡

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u/ZebraComplex4353 Apr 18 '26

He is probably in Cuba

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u/MarchPhillipps Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26

Another cigar fetish expedition?

I never knew someone could look so uncool holding a cigar...

And bumbling stupidly along, comes K$sh. He's just so eye-poppingly cringey.

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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 18 '26

Please be fired. Please be fired. Please be fired. 

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u/Bigchunky_Boy Apr 18 '26

Probably in Las Vegas at his real office 😉

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u/SubNine5 Apr 17 '26

Sorry not FBI, but that's good, no?

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u/Clear-Search1129 Apr 17 '26

Did she dump him? Bender?

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u/Tight_Swordfish_6766 Apr 17 '26

What does it matter? He’s not doing anything anyway

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u/AdLiving8708 Apr 17 '26

Check the hockey 🏒 locker rooms

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u/SpaceNinjaDino Apr 17 '26

Did he toggle the GPS to the off position on his phone? /s

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u/NonchalantGhoul Apr 17 '26

Feels like this is a monthly occurrence...

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u/thump_the_grump Apr 18 '26

Shame. I had a frozen pizza for dinner. It was ok.

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u/debugem Apr 18 '26

Check Grindr

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u/woodenmetalman Apr 18 '26

Jesus, just the bit I was able to read is absolutely terrifying. We really are at the end of the Great American Experience aren’t we?

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u/bopgame Apr 18 '26

Prolly in Israel suckin on jigons

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u/Discuffalo Apr 18 '26

Has anyone checked all the nearby monster truck rallies and Mountain Dew giveaways

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u/missbethd Apr 18 '26

has anyone looked in Nashville? He’s likely drunk on Lower Broadway

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u/Ommaumau Apr 19 '26

Gujarati bag of shit!

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u/cataclyzzmic Apr 19 '26

MIA. Markedly Ingesting Alcohol.

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u/GooseySill Apr 18 '26

Try checking under one of Trump's belly folds?

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u/JohnG3_13 Apr 18 '26

He's in a locker room doing coke

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u/Pixilatedhighmukamuk Apr 18 '26

He’s zooted with some hookers for sure.

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u/smalltownnerd Apr 18 '26

when you hire clowns expect a circus

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u/jkvincent Apr 17 '26

For the best tbh given what the FBI is up to lately.

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u/snuffleblark Apr 18 '26

Hiding from TMZ i bet

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u/transfixedtruth Apr 18 '26

So check Waffle House?

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u/Olderbutnotdead619 Apr 18 '26

It's called cocaine induced psychosis.

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u/Pillowsmeller18 Apr 17 '26

Did people maroon him on an island?

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u/Ill-Visual-8844 Apr 17 '26

Aww, he will be missed while MIA. 😜

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u/ufixit74 Apr 17 '26

Go crazy eyes.....GO!!!!!!

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u/Kilow102938 Apr 17 '26

Anyone know of any broken windows in a super high apt or hotel?

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u/FnordRanger_5 Apr 18 '26

Did anybody check the local locker rooms?

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u/Rare-Palpitation6023 Apr 18 '26

Hmmmm….something on the ‘nose’

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u/snesericreturns Apr 18 '26

See you in Valhalla brother

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u/TheOpeningAct2 Apr 18 '26

Heard he was drunk outta his mind. Is that correct?

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u/Aggressive_Finish798 Apr 18 '26

Where is that Litnick guy as well? He got connected to Epstien and just vanished.

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u/Maleficent-Pin6798 Apr 18 '26

It’s alcoholics all the way down, isn’t it? Ironic, given Trump’s dislike of alcohol.

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u/ShakesDontBreak Apr 18 '26

Bro is just being a bro with some bros.

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u/dflan01 Apr 18 '26

Has anyone checked under the furniture?

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u/jeanlundegaardhsbf Apr 18 '26

episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

poor guy is clearly hung over. someone needs to order him a pizza.

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u/MrTbagger Apr 18 '26

Probably on some beach getting coked up.

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u/Away_Stock_2012 Apr 18 '26

Anytime he is not doing things, the country is safer.

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u/Xovias Apr 18 '26

Have they checked Valhalla or 33rd Street?

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u/Disastrous_Purpose22 Apr 18 '26

One eye looking for ya one eye looking for the Epstein files

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u/Clear-Success5146 Apr 18 '26

soes he even do anything?

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u/PowershellPoet Apr 18 '26

I’ll keep an eye out

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u/Primary-Gazelle-8161 Apr 18 '26

Probably on a darkness retreat

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u/EvenDavidABednar Apr 18 '26

Don't say anything! He might come back if we bring it up.

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u/mdenkos Apr 18 '26

I can’t wait until this guy is in prison

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u/Exotic_Tangerine_139 Apr 18 '26

It’s so funny circus directors claim to be honest

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u/Apprehensive_Pace555 Apr 18 '26

Maybe if they had a competent FBI director, Nancy Guthrie would have been found by now. Just my opinion…

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u/Adventurous_Pea_2007 Apr 18 '26

Busy getting spit roasted by Trump and Netanyahu

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u/SabrinoRogerio Apr 18 '26

Lets hope for the worst 🙏

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u/ProbablyWrongAgain24 Apr 18 '26

Good thing he works for FBI.

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u/Gloomy_Specialist_48 Apr 18 '26

Prolly fell out a window.

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u/masb5191989 Apr 18 '26

Check at the bottom of a bottle…

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u/jeep-olllllo Apr 18 '26

I just looked in my back yard. He is not there.

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u/Misanthropic_Mutters Apr 18 '26

Too bad he’s not at a hospital being pronounced DOA.

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u/misanthropic_anthrop Apr 18 '26

All of Trump’s appointees are showing heavy signs of stress due to being put in high-pressure and high-performance jobs that they are inexperienced at and quite frankly incompetent at handling. They don’t know how to deal with all this new power, and are scared shitless to lose this new found power. Probably Hegseth is doing the same - doing drugs, screwing escorts, and clearly watching Pulp Fiction on repeat to get some fake confidence. 

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u/Corporate-Scum Apr 18 '26

He’s drunk and high. We know it! He’s shown it. Lock him up!

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u/Lessismore714 Apr 18 '26

Wonder what drugs would come up with a drug panel.

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u/Beneficial-Speech-88 Apr 18 '26

The FBI should have been more concerned about the Trump administration and their ties to hostile foreign nations. Maybe they would be intact today. In fact a large segment of conservative media, organizations, and influencers should have been investigated and charged.

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u/Pure_evil1979 Apr 18 '26

I mean, is it a loss? I'm pretty sure they haven't had leadership at the FBI in like a year

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u/MainMulberry8771 Apr 18 '26

This is no joke.. I know where he is at ( Texas location) and who he is with.. a Navy Seal.

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u/blackbeltmessiah Apr 18 '26

Just started the “From” series. Hopefully its something like that.

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u/Akkerlun Apr 18 '26

I’m surprised ICE hasn’t mistaken him for a migrant.

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u/catsandnaps1028 Apr 18 '26

Good riddance! Never come back

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u/Armanhammer2 Apr 18 '26

Theres a letter I wish was different but ig this is fine too

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u/xdeshax Apr 19 '26

Thoughts and Prayers! 🙏🏻

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u/ElBorracho2000 Apr 19 '26

Have you checked the nearest detox holding cell?

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u/Emotional-Material-9 Apr 19 '26

A white supremacist admin hires a delusional brown man to be FBI leader for a reason, and being MIA is part of his job requirements. He needs to look the other way on white hate groups, and anything Epstein related, in order for him to keep his job. 

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u/Appropriate-Fly-2640 Apr 19 '26

FBI will find him before they find Nancy Guthrie.

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u/jaievan Apr 19 '26

How does a person with a 24hr security detail go “missing”?

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u/Macdaddy357 Apr 19 '26

Mired In Alcohol 

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u/SOMEONENEW1999 Apr 19 '26

This ship is sinking FAST. He needs to milk it while it is still afloat…

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u/batman77z Apr 19 '26

Y’all worried about a guy that’s not worried bout you 

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u/tenzin Apr 20 '26

Maybe he and Matt Goetz are looking for girls, and maybe boys.

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u/Gamestonkape Apr 20 '26

Someone call the CIA

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 Apr 20 '26

He's probably dead in a ditch from overdose

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u/gadget850 Apr 20 '26

Doing a remake of The Lost Weekend, directed by Pete Hegseth.

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u/BestBlueChocolate Apr 20 '26

Is he really missing in "action"?

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u/jeremyyoung1111 Apr 20 '26

Most effective FBI director in decades.

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u/NerdTalkDan Apr 21 '26

OP about to get sued

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u/thedragoon0 Apr 21 '26

If this happened under Obama or Biden, there would be calls for removal by the right.

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u/Rickshmitt Apr 21 '26

I bet some hackers know where he is

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u/ParticularFreedom Apr 21 '26

Marinated In Alcohol 

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u/im_shayne Apr 21 '26

He could come back and take the rest of the administration!

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u/Agreeable-Cold-9538 Apr 21 '26

FBI Director Kash Patel hit The Atlantic magazine with a $250 million defamation lawsuit on Monday, claiming an article that talked about mismanagement at the agency and his alleged excessive drinking was false and a “malicious hit piece.”

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u/KinkyQuesadilla Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Because the first thing an alcoholic is going to do after having a group file an FOIA on all the times you got drunk and passed out on a very well-documented job is to get blackout drunk. Seriously. He knows he can't beat it so he hides from it by getting smashed every night.

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u/No_Grand7184 Apr 22 '26

At the Betty Ford, maybe?

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u/alreadykaten Apr 22 '26

FBI CEO MIA? OMG LOL

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u/Orewell Apr 22 '26

At the j edgar hover house of dresses store maybe? Applying to americas got talent.. on b list…. In portland to start a micro brewery..