The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), embroiled in serial controversies related to its overtly political and unethical conduct, has found time to chase down the real threat to Americans’ safety and security: Barstool Sports’ podcast host Kirk Minihane.
Minihane, host of the eponymously named and thrice-weekly podcast, the Kirk Minihane Show, revealed on Thursday that he’d received a phone call from a Lexington Police Department detective who said he was investigating a tip that Minihane had threatened a Florida health care executive.
The Lexington PD gumshoe, in Minihane’s telling, said the alleged threat was made on his podcast (it wasn’t) following the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson by a University of Pennsylvania graduate.
The detective’s call, Minihane said, originated from a tip submitted to the FBI, who thought it so credible that they passed it along to the local police agency without vetting themselves.
The Lexington PD didn’t respond to the Maine Wire’s inquiry, but a spokesperson confirmed during a live-to-tape episode of Minihane’s show on Thursday that it had indeed called the Barstool Sports icon, trivia champ, and 2x murder-solver without, it appears, making any attempt to vet the supposed tip.
All episodes of Minihane’s podcasts are available for free to the public and easy to find, even for FBI agents, which means assessing the validity of the tip would have required no more than a few hours work.
Minihane was critical of both the FBI and the Lexington PD on his podcast Thursday, pointing out that his true crime podcast is batting .1000 in solving murders, while the police agencies’ records are somewhat spottier.
The seasoned criminal investigator re-told how he initially reacted upon receiving the Lexington detective’s phone call by explaining how he should have approached the investigation: “I said, you receiving the tip is A, you calling me is C. I said, let’s talk about B. And I said, B is where you then produce the audio of me saying it. He said, ‘Well we don’t have that.'”
The FBI’s probe into Minihane comes as the agency finds itself mired in multiple scandals stemming from the curiously timed release of Inspector General reports critiquing the agency’s surveillance of Congressional staffers, journalists, and its long-denied but now-confirmed participation in the Jan. 6 riots.
While the FBI has, for more than 1,400 days, refused to disclose just how many of its undercover agents and cooperating sources were present for (a.k.a. helped instigate) the Jan. 6 riots, a bombshell new IG report revealed this week that at least 26 of the FBI’s best helped storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—the majority of whom had no orders to actually be at the rally.
(Full Disclosure: As a former producer for Minihane’s podcasts, I can confirm that he has threatened or wished death upon tens of thousands of people, including me, multiple times, and sometimes other Barstool employees, Barstool’s founder Dave Portnoy, whole countries and religions, the children of his enemies and even of his friends, but almost always in a joking way. I think.)
Kash me out
The FBI has lost all credibility with the American people. Are they all DEI hires and can’t figure out how to see if a tip is legitimate. They are getting dumber and dumber.