华盛顿讯——据美联社周五获得的一份内部通知，联邦调查局已向全体工作人员发布一份机密报告，该报告探讨了该局历史上“表现欠佳的若干阶段”。
ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — The FBI has released a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau’s history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
目前尚不清楚这份名为“帕特尔报告”的文件具体记述了联邦调查局历史上的哪些事件。不过这份报告的出现与局长卡什·帕特尔的一贯立场相符：他经常批评前任领导层，并决心清除那些他认为曾使联邦调查局政治化的特工及其他雇员。然而，帕特尔的批评者则指责他本人正在使联邦调查局政治化。
It was unclear what episodes from the FBI’s past are chronicled in the new “Patel Report.”But the document’s existence is in keeping with Director Kash Patel’s frequent criticism of the leaders who preceded him as well as with his determination to rid the FBI of agents and other employees he contends have politicized the bureau in the past. Patel’s critics, however, accuse him of politicizing the FBI.
尽管帕特尔在去年的任命听证会上承诺不会“回溯过去”，但他仍鼓励对前任高级官员展开调查，并主导了多轮裁员行动。被解雇的人员中包括曾参与多年前对唐纳德·特朗普总统调查的雇员、在2020年种族正义抗议活动中单膝下跪并被拍下照片的人员，以及参与撰写一份关于天主教极端主义、存在争议的分析备忘录的工作人员。
Though Patel pledged at his confirmation hearing last year that he would not look “backward,” he has encouraged investigation of former senior officials and has presided over waves of terminations, including of employees who participated in years-old investigations of President Donald Trump, were photographed taking a knee during a 2020 racial justice protest and contributed to a disputed analytical memo about Catholic extremism.
在发给全体工作人员的备忘录中，联邦调查局两位副局长克里斯托弗·拉伊亚与安德鲁·贝利称：“帕特尔报告之所以回溯历史，是因为问责工作有此需要。”该备忘录还将这份报告描述为“标志着我们历史的一个阶段就此结束，一个充满光明未来的新阶段由此开启”。贝利本周早些时候宣布辞职，他的最后工作日即为周五。联邦调查局拒绝对该报告发表任何评论。
“The Patel Report looks backward because accountability demands it,” says a memo to the workforce signed by the FBI’s co-deputy directors, Christopher Raia and Andrew Bailey, that describes the document as marking the “closing of one chapter in our history and the beginning of another complete with a brighter future ahead.”Bailey announced his resignation earlier this week, and his last day is Friday. The FBI declined to comment on the report.
电文还写道：“我们无法改变在我们接手之前发生的事。但我们可以坦诚面对历史。我们可以承认失误而非加以掩饰。我们可以追究相关人员的责任。我们可以修复已经破损的环节。我们还能建立起足够严密的防范机制，确保过去的错误再也不会决定本机构的未来走向。这些举措完全符合任何致力于不断进步的优秀机构的标准。”目前尚不清楚这份报告是否提出了具体建议或要求采取行动来弥补过往的不足。
The message also says: “We cannot change what happened before we arrived. But we can confront it honestly. We can recognize failures instead of protecting them. We can hold people accountable. We can fix what was broken. And we can build safeguards strong enough to ensure the mistakes of the past are never allowed to define this institution again. These steps are consistent with any institution of excellence that is constantly striving for improvement.”It was unclear if the report made recommendations or demanded any action to address past shortcomings.
FBI在电文中称，该报告旨在“强化机构内部的问责机制”并重新赢得“公众信任”。然而，帕特尔的批评者指出，在他任职期间，FBI针对特朗普的所谓政敌展开了带有明显政治倾向的调查；同时，那些奉命调查这位共和党总统的特工也遭到了处罚。这些行为严重损害了人们对美国这一顶级联邦执法机构的信任。
The FBI message says the report is meant to ”promote fierce organizational accountability” and rebuild “public trust.”But Patel’s critics say the politically charged investigations into perceived adversaries of Trump that the FBI has started under his watch, as well as the punishment of agents who participated in investigations into the Republican president to which they were assigned, have eroded faith in the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency.