Nicole Parker - Former FBI Agent Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, probably not a good idea to lie to the FBI.
Seven fifty one hour time here in Houston's boring News,
Nicole Parker's with us former FBI agent. She has a
brand new book. By the way, she will be in
the Woodlands tonight for a book signing. We'll find out
more about that before we get done for the day today.
But I want to ask you about the title here,
the two fbis the bravery in betrayal. I saw my
time at the bureau. Obviously, the rank and file, you know,

(00:23):
the people who have been at the FBI for for
years are there to do a very specific job and
try to go about doing their job in the best
way they know how. And then there's the politics. Where
does the politics begin at the FBI.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Houston
is my hometown and I'm happy to be here today
and to join y'all. You know, I joined the FBI
as a special agent back in twenty ten, and I
came as a result of previously witnessing the nine to
eleven terrorist attacks in New York City. At the time,
I was working at Merrill Lynch and I heard the

(01:00):
first plane crash into the North Tower. I saw the
second plane crash into the South Tower, and there was
a monumental moment in my life as I was trying
to evacuate from my building, when I was in the elevator.
I write about it in my book, and it was
this epiphany and it was like literally God speaking peace
to me in a very tumultuous moment. And I felt

(01:22):
in my heart, Nicole, if you get out of here alive,
you will one day go back and serve your country,
and you will stand as a witness of God. And
I never forgot that promise I'd made to myself in
that vow on that elevator. So fast forward. I continue
working on Wall Street. You know, I went and worked
at a hedge fund in Beverly Hills. But I still
wasn't really fulfilling what I thought was my higher purpose.

(01:43):
I apply to the FBI. I get in in the book.
I detailed the application process, going through Quantico. Things that
you never hear about that really know, one that the
FBI speaks about, but people tend to find quite fascinating.
I get to FBI Miami. I'm working white collar crime.
You know what I referred to as FBI one people
that came to the agency to uphold the constitution, protect

(02:03):
the American people, and do the right thing. I didn't
even know that politics was a thing at the FBI,
but I'll tell you that on July fifth of twenty sixteen,
loud and clear, James Comy came out in front of
the American people in that press conference and in essence
right an indictment stating why Hillary Clinton was guilty and
there was probable cause that she had committed a crime.

(02:25):
But yet at the end of the statement he basically says,
no reasonable prosecutor, which are Hillary Clinton?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Oh yeah, I remember that very well.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, that was a defining moment for us at the FBI.
That's when I first really discovered FBI two. ATBI two
are the people that are in the agency that came
in there. They abused their law enforcement power to push
their own political and social agendas. And with time I
started seeing FBI two more and more and more. Now

(02:53):
keep in mind, I'm down in Miami. I'm working violent
crime at the time, putting away human traffickers, murderers, you know,
the most heinous crimes you can imagine. I worked at
Parkland School, shooting heart wrenching tragedy while simultaneously people in Washington,
d C. And our Washington Field office are committing political
corruption and again causing major issues. But let me make

(03:16):
this clear, it wasn't just at the top. People think, oh,
it was just up in DC, and I talk about
in my book. FBI too actually started at the top,
but it literally trickled down into all of the field offices.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know, it's funny. My my Sicilian in laws have
a saying the fish rots from the head down, and
this sounds like that's exactly what you're describing. How far
down did that go? Do the FBI?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's worse for I can tell you that there's support
staff and FBI Miami that were making Again read the book,
it was I was flabbergasted by some of the things
that I was hearing. Keep in mind, at the rate
of mar Alago that was in FBI Miami's area of jurisdiction,
because you know, Palm Beach is in FBI Miami, which
is where mar Alago is located. Some of the statements

(03:59):
I was hearing and passing, I'm just I couldn't believe it.
But as the book progresses, you know they're honorable agents
trying to do the right thing. Hold the line, have integrity,
be fair. I was trying to save children working human trafficking.
My best friend in the FBI was shot and killed
in the line of duty executing a warrant for a
child predator. There was no swap protection for her. And

(04:22):
this is in the Biden administration, while simultaneously the FBI
is liberally sending resources for January sixth non violent misdemeanor offenders.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Nicole, I'm up at the end of the show here,
but I want to ask you before we let you go.
Where are you going to be in the Woodlands tonight?
Where can move sign your book?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
I will be at the Barnes and Noble in the
Woodlands Mall starting at six pm until closed. I would
love for y'all to come out and visit. And I
think it's a great read. There's a lot of heart
in this book.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Stop on buy and ask her more about the prosecutor,
James Colemy, because I'm pretty sure she's going to tell
you he deserves it. Nicole, thank you for joining us.
Nicle Parker, former FBI agent, and again She'll be in
the Woodlands signing her book tonight