Not surprisingly, during another Trump administration, a group of former top law enforcement officials has penned a letter slamming the current administration and its efforts to weed out the establishment types.

According to Fox News, a group of former intelligence, diplomatic and national security officials for the FBI wrote a letter excoriating FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino for their most recent "purge" of the bureau. 

The group of former officials accused Patel and Bongino for firing several FBI agents and officials for not having the appropriate level of loyalty to President Donald Trump.

The former officials even have their own group name, called "The Steady State."

What's going on?

In the letter blasting Patel and Bongino, "The Steady State" claims that the firing of "Agents Brian Driscoll, Michael Feinberg and Walter Giardina" was an attempt to dismantle the bureau's "long-standing independence."

They also claimed that the current FBI leadership is setting the FBI up to be a "tool of political loyalty."

Fox News noted:

The Steady State also claimed the agents were canned because they were not loyal to President Donald Trump, before accusing the administration of appointing Patel and Bongino to powerful roles despite not having resumes that meet the "basic standards" to lead the "world’s premiere law enforcement agency."

The group hilariously claims that the bureau has been taken from a "respected" institution to something that is used by the president as a political weapon, which is ironically exactly what it was used for under President Biden.

"It is not about reform. It is about control. The aim, it seems, is to transform the FBI from a respected, constitutionally grounded investigative service into a personal enforcement arm of a political figure," the letter reads.

They added, "We have seen these dynamics abroad—leaders who demand loyalty from security services not to the law, but to themselves. These regimes do not end well."

"The nation is watching"

The dramatic letter went on to insist that the FBI has been a "bulwark" against "corruption."

"The FBI has long been a bulwark against such corruption: an institution where rule of law and civil liberties are held in balance with the demands of national security," the letter continued. "Its independence is not a bureaucratic feature; it is a democratic necessity."

The letter concluded with "The nation is watching, and will be inspired by the FBI. And history will remember."

It's funny how that wasn't a raised concern when the FBI was actually being used for political targeting and was rife with politically corrupt officials and agents.