A dozen former FBI agents filed a lawsuit accusing FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials of unlawfully firing them for kneeling during a 2020 protest after the death of George Floyd. The lawsuit claims that the agents knelt to “defuse a volatile situation, not as an expressive political act.” Meanwhile, Patel reportedly yelled at agents on the security detail for his girlfriend to drive her allegedly drunken friend home. This comes as a leaked report compiled by retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts called the agency under Patel a “rudderless ship” and “chronically under-performing.”