Michael Schmidt on the Firing of Aaron Tapp: ‘You Can’t Just Grow a New FBI Agent Overnight’

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SCHMIDT: "And look, I think it’s very, very difficult to run the federal government in normal times. My guess is that it’s very difficult to run the FBI when you’re constantly getting rid of people that have developed this level of expertise. And as Michael, you know, could say, and I’m sure it’s true, you can’t just grow a new FBI agent overnight. Sure, you could probably get one within a year. But at the same time, there’s all that experience on top of it. And they’re not just getting rid of the low-level FBI agents. They’re getting rid of the FBI agents that have the most experience. And if something were to go wrong in any sort of fashion in this country that relates to law enforcement, the first question the media is going to ask is, what was the FBI doing? And did they miss something?”