通常情况下，联邦调查局（FBI）设有一名局长和一名副局长，后者协助监督局里的日常运作。然而，特朗普政府一点也不正常，这就解释了为什么在去年夏天，FBI决定需要设立副局长——右翼煽动性播客主持人丹·邦吉诺（Dan Bongino）和曾担任密苏里州总检察长的安德鲁·贝利（Andrew Bailey）。两人都没有任何FBI的工作经验。
Under normal circumstances, the FBI has a director and a deputy director, with the latter helping to oversee day-to-day operations at the bureau. The Trump administration, however, isn’t normal at all, which helps explain why, last summer, the FBI decided it needed deputy directors Dan Bongino, a right-wing provocateur podcast personality rew Bailey, who had served as state attorney general in Missouri. Neither had any experience at the FBI.
这场实验失败了。去年年底，邦吉诺辞职，不久后重返福克斯新闻。而上任仅仅一年左右，贝利也要离职了。
The experiment failed. Late last year, Bongino resigned and soon after returned to Fox News And barely a year into his tenure, Bailey is exiting, too.
MS NOW报道称，FBI联合副局长、前密苏里州总检察长安德鲁·贝利即将离任，以花更多时间陪伴家人。
MS NOW reported FBI Co-Deputy Director and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is leaving his post to spend more time with his family.
据两位熟悉其离职情况的人士透露，贝利……对于未能被任命为FBI局长感到沮丧。此前，在卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）屡次失误并引发对政府不利的舆论之后，曾有人向他提出过这一设想。
According to two people familiar with his departure, Bailey … was frustrated at not being named FBI director, a proposal once floated to him after Kash Patel had made numerous missteps and generated headlines that were unfavorable to the administration.
《纽约时报》的一篇相关报道补充道：“据多位熟悉他们互动情况并不愿透露姓名的知情人士透露，帕特尔先生和贝利先生合不来，而且经常很长时间不和对方说话。”时间会证明副局长将如何以及是否会被替换，以及FBI是否会恢复其更传统的领导模式，但在同时，当贝利在更新他的简历时，我们不妨停下来体会一下帕特尔领导下的FBI近来局势是何等的混乱。
A related New York Times report added, “Mr. Patel and Mr. Bailey did not get along, and often went long stretches without speaking to each other, according to multiple people familiar with their interactions who spoke on the condition of anonymity.”Time will tell whether and how the deputy directors are replaced, and whether the FBI returns to its more traditional leadership model, but in the meantime, as Bailey updates his résumé, it’s worth pausing to appreciate just how chaotic conditions at Patel’s bureau have been of late.
就在上周，例如，两名资深的FBI反恐主管被撤职——不是因为他们做错了什么，而是因为他们拒绝了一项要求：对一名被认为曾向斯蒂芬·米勒（Stephen Miller）的妻子、保守派播客主持人凯蒂·米勒（Katie Miller）拨打骚扰电话的人进行威胁评估。
It was just last week, for example, when two veteran FBI counterterrorism supervisors were removed from their jobs— not because they had done anything wrong, but because they balked after being asked to conduct a threat assessment on a person believed to have been making harassing phone calls to Stephen Miller’s wife, conservative podcaster Katie Miller.
联邦调查局（FBI）华盛顿外地办事处负责反恐事务的特工主管迈克尔·伯格瓦尔德（Michael Burgwald）和他的副手科特兰·雷（Courtland Rae）都拥有深厚的国家安全经验。但他们还是被调离了岗位。
The special agent in charge of counterterrorism in the FBI’s Washington field office, Michael Burgwald, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, each have deep national security experience. They were transferred from their posts anyway.
这大致与一个黑客犯罪集团窃取大量涉及潜在数万名现任及前任联邦调查局员工的敏感个人数据的时间相吻合。英国网络防御机构前负责人基兰·马丁（Ciaran Martin）对《纽约时报》表示，此次黑客攻击可能对该局的“作战能力产生巨大影响”，并可能成为历史上后果最严重的数据泄露事件之一。
This roughly coincided with a criminal hacking group stealing reams of sensitive personal data involving potentially tens of thousands of current and former FBI employees. Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, told The New York Times that the hack likely had a “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history.
大约一周前，帕特尔认为暂时中断与联邦调查局加拿大对口机构的部分合作是个好主意，因为加拿大的公共广播公司使用了与“9·11”相关的措辞，让这位联邦调查局局长感到不满。
About a week earlier, Patel thought it would be a good idea to briefly halt some cooperation with the FBI’s Canadian counterpart because Canada’s public broadcaster used phrasing related to 9/11 that bothered the FBI director.
同一周，帕特尔出席参议院司法委员会听证会，在解释为何降低新入职联邦调查局申请人的专业标准时显得力不从心。
The same week, Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and struggled to explain why he lowered the professional standards for incoming FBI applicants.
同一天，唐纳德·特朗普毫无根据地指责联邦调查局，称其在两年前调查针对他在宾夕法尼亚州巴特勒的疑似暗杀企图时故意敷衍了事。
The same day, Donald Trump falsely accused the FBI of deliberately doing a poor job investigating the apparent assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, two years ago.
需要说明的是，我并不是在通过这些例子深挖过去。相反，这些都是在过去短短时间内刚刚发生的事件。
Note, I’m not digging deep into the past with these examples. On the contrary, these are incidents that unfolded just over the last .
希望联邦调查局有朝一日能重新成为一个正常的执法机构。然而，那一天还远未到来。
The FBI will hopefully someday become a normal law enforcement institution again. That day, however, is not close.
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