
Government Incompetence… or Something Worse? You Decide | 2/26/26
Some government failures don’t look accidental anymore. They look designed. When the same “mistakes” keep producing the same results, accountability becomes harder to ignore.In this episode of At The Mic Thursday Deep Dive, host Keith Malinak is joined by former FBI agent Steve Friend for a wide-ranging conversation about power, institutional incentives, and what happens when speaking up from the inside carries a personal cost.The discussion moves through recruitment practices, internal pressure, public narratives, and constitutional limits, not as a checklist, but as a growing unease…
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