Former FBI agent Nicole Parker explains how DEI split the agency and led to disaster: ‘They were hiring idiots’
By Doree Lewak
Published Dec. 31, 2025, 4:22 p.m. ET
President Trump’s heralded decision to make DEI DOA couldn’t come a moment too soon for Nicole Parker.
The so-called diversity, equity and inclusion initiative was a boondoggle that wrought incalculable damage across every sphere of employment in the country.
No one knows that better than Parker, a former FBI special agent of 12 years who described how a civil war brewed inside the once-venerable agency, with “lines drawn” between two clashing factions she termed “FBI 1 versus FBI 2.”
One side represents “integrity, meritocracy and protecting the American people” while the other force pushes “personal agendas and identity politics, DEI and politically motivated cases” in lieu of serious crime investigations and “the upholding of law and order replaced by performative posturing.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/us-news/former-fbi-agent-nicole-parker-explains-how-dei-split-the-agency-and-led-to-disaster/
