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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Frank Figliuzzi is a national security contributor and regular columnist for NBC News and MSNBC. He was the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the government. He is the author of “The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence.”
Frank Figliuzzi was the FBI’s Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and served 25 years as a Special Agent. In his current role as a respected National Security Analyst, Frank appears weekly on live television for NBC and MSNBC news. Frank held senior FBI leadership positions in major American cities and was appointed the FBI’s Chief Inspector by then Director Robert Mueller to oversee sensitive internal inquiries, shooting reviews, and performance audits. Following his FBI career, Frank became a corporate security executive for a Fortune 10 company and led global Investigations, Insider Threat, Workplace Violence Prevention, and Special Event security for 200,000 employees in 180 countries.
As the Bureau’s head of Counterintelligence, Mr. Figliuzzi directed all espionage investigations across the U.S. government. Frank frequently briefed the White House, Congress, and the Attorney General. Mr. Figliuzzi directed an FBI internal disciplinary unit in the Office of Professional Responsibility and adjudicated allegations of serious misconduct against FBI personnel. Frank is the author of THE FBI WAY: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence (HarperCollins).
Frank is most noted for his clear and compelling television commentary regarding the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign, and coverage of tragic mass shootings. His FBI career highlights include: Leading the FBI’s efforts to counter economic espionage in Silicon Valley, California; Overseeing major financial crimes and public corruption investigations in Miami, Florida, and Cleveland, Ohio; Serving as on-scene commander of the largest HAZMAT evidence recovery effort in FBI history at the Boca Raton, Florida, site of the nation’s first anthrax murder; and, Publicly explaining the FBI’s successful operation against ten Russian sleeper agents inside the United States.
Mr. Figliuzzi earned a Juris Doctorate cum laude from the University of Connecticut School of Law, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature from Fairfield University. Frank completed certificate programs at the Harvard University National Security Program for Senior Executives in Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and at Northwestern University’s executive course on Leading Strategic Change at the Kellogg School of Management. He is a sought-after speaker, panelist and instructor on leadership, violence prevention, risk management, and the external and internal threats facing the United States
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0:00.0 | Hi there. Here I am. How are you doing? Shit is crazy, huh? Make sure you get outside, if you can. |
0:06.9 | Touch some grass, get in the woods, do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself. |
0:11.2 | Take care of yourself so that you can take care of others. Mainly me. That's right. Let's do it. |
0:20.4 | Stand up. |
0:22.6 | Yeah, we are off. |
0:24.7 | And I've got you and you've got me and we are joined today by the great Frank |
0:29.6 | the gloosie, who is a former FBI agent. |
0:32.6 | You might know from MSNBC. |
0:34.3 | He's written a bunch of books and he is a a regular commentator, and he is outraged at everything |
0:40.1 | that's happening in his old agency, and it was really great to talk with him for the first |
0:45.2 | time on the show. |
0:46.5 | Still getting people on the show for the first time. |
0:48.9 | Lots of new guests joining me, and I'm very, very excited to have you, you as always because I can't do it without you. |
0:56.5 | I hope to see you at tomorrow night's hangout. |
0:58.5 | I hope to see you in Las Vegas, March 28th through 30th. |
1:01.4 | Get your tickets now. |
1:02.8 | Learn more about what we're going to be doing together in the show links. |
1:07.2 | All right. |
1:07.8 | Wow. |
1:08.3 | Yesterday was a crazy day in news. |
1:10.7 | I've got your headlines and a whole bunch of |
1:12.8 | audio clips in addition to my conversation with Frank, which by the way begins at about 31 minutes into |
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