Chris Piehota - Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Chris Piehota, a former FBI Special Agent who served as one of the bureau’s top career executives, discusses the dramatic changes he witnessed in the FBI during his 25-year career. Author of Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew, Chris reveals the internal challenges that have led to the FBI’s current crisis of trust, including leadership failures, cultural erosion, and operational missteps.

He provides a firsthand account of how the FBI transformed after September 11, 2001, and how those shifts have led to the agency's diminished reputation. From claims of political polarization to public calls for disbandment, Piehota shares why the FBI is struggling to regain the credibility it once had and what it will take to restore public faith in this vital institution.

Wanted: The FBI I Once Knew - https://a.co/d/blXwtj9

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0:00.0	Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. If you have a video, you can tell I have a beanie on, because it's beanie season here in Montana.
0:07.1	Yeah, it turned for winter about in the last 24 hours. Rain became snow and hopefully it's game on.
0:13.0	Two things to talk about before we get in today's episode. One of them is obviously going to be the Black Rifle Coffee advertisement read. Before that, though, let's talk a little bit about intellectual property. Intellectual property rights are the backbone of American innovation,
0:26.7	economic growth, and national security. By defending these rights, we secure our place as a global
0:32.1	leader in technology, safeguard our economy, and protect American ingenuity from foreign
0:36.9	adversaries like China.
0:38.5	And if you're like me, I don't think a lot about intellectual property because I don't feel
0:41.6	like I have any. But China's IP theft costs the U.S. economy about $600 billion annually.
0:49.3	And China is now leading the U.S. in 37 of 44 critical technologies that will define the future, including
0:55.0	AI, space exploration, and advanced manufacturing. There's also an increased dependence on foreign
1:00.2	producers. Weak IP protections only make it harder to maintain our technological leadership.
1:07.2	So what can be done? What can we do to strengthen our position? Well, there are some pro-innovation policies. Congress could pass legislation like the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, Pera, and the Prevail Act to strengthen IP protections. We can work to bolster agencies like the Small Business Administration, SBA, and the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the NIST.
1:32.7	And more than anything, your average person on the street, like me and you.
1:40.8	We can just think a little bit more about where we are sourcing things from, whether that's product or data, and start protecting our critical intellectual property.
1:46.7	Now, let's get into who makes this episode possible and the podcast for that matter.
1:47.0	That's right.
1:47.9	It's black rifle coffee.
1:49.4	This shouldn't shock you.
1:53.0	Right now, there is a black rifle Friday.
1:54.3	I was about to say black rifle coffee.
1:55.3	It's Black Rifle Friday.
1:57.2	Largest product drop of the year.
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