I was saddened to learn recently that a friend, Kevin Brock, passed away last year. Although we hadn’t communicated in some time, when I went to reconnect with him recently, I soon discovered that he had passed away in 2024 following a lengthy illness. Kevin’s passing was not only a great loss to his family and friends, but to our country. He was among the best the FBI ever produced.
I first met Kevin in 2020. By then, Kevin was retired from the FBI as its Assistant Director of Intelligence. I had recently obtained, through the Freedom of Information Act on behalf of my organization, Judicial Watch, the infamous “Electronic Communication,” which launched the FBI’s Operation Crossfire Hurricane. This was the fraudulently predicated FBI investigation ostensibly designed to investigate “collusion” between Donald Trump and the Russian government in his 2016 presidential election.
Judicial Watch had to file a lawsuit against the Justice Department based on my original request seeking documents used to launch Operation Crossfire Hurricane, and they eventually sent us this remarkable record. We published the document and an accompanying report in May 2020.
Kevin saw our report and then wrote his own superb analysis of this “electronic communication” (EC), which the truly odious and treacherous FBI counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok, authored in his role as one of the schemers to attempt to bring down then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Kevin was a true subject matter expert in the proper predication and conduct of FBI investigations. His analysis of the electronic communication setting off Crossfire Hurricane, published at The Hill, is a tour de force explication of the legal bases used by the FBI to launch honest counterintelligence investigations and all of the anomalous aspects of Peter Strzok’s document.
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Kevin wrote of Strzok’s landmark electronic communication: “Those of us who have speculated there was insufficient cause for beginning the investigation could not have imagined the actual opening document was this feeble. It is as if it were written by someone who had no experience as an FBI agent.” Further on, he says of the opening document, it is a “train wreck.”
Kevin then went on to parse the document, citing all its irregularities. He notes that Peter Strzok not only authored the document but approved it himself – completely contrary to FBI practice. And he sent it to himself. As Kevin writes, ‘for this document, Peter Strzok was pitcher, catcher, batter, and umpire.”
Kevin then goes on to take apart Strzok’s use of the Foreign Agent Registration Act as the basis to investigate Trump, while failing to articulate any justifiable FARA violations in the EC upon which to base the investigation.
He summed up well the fundamental fraudulence of the Strzok document, writing: “What this FBI document clearly establishes is that Crossfire Hurricane was an illicit, made-up investigation lacking a shred of justifying predication, sprung from the mind of someone who despised Donald Trump, and then blessed by inexperienced leadership at the highest levels who harbored their own now well-established biases.”
I hope that Attorney General Bondi, FBI Director Patel, and FBI Deputy Director Bongino take the time to read Kevin’s analysis of Peter Strzok’s treacherous document, which brought so much misery upon this country.
I don’t recall how Kevin and I met exactly, but I suspect I contacted him after reading his piece in The Hill. He readily and generously agreed to meet up with me at a local diner, as we would periodically over the coming years.
We immediately hit it off. Kevin was a devout Catholic with eight children. I was the youngest of eight children of devoutly Catholic parents. Kevin was all about his faith, his family, and our country. I’d never met a truer patriot. He breathed integrity.
Most importantly, Kevin was appalled by the politicization of the FBI and the actions of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page. He was disgusted with how they had deformed the FBI – an institution he loved and had served most of his adult life.
My Judicial Watch attorney colleague, Lauren Burke, and I asked Kevin if he would be willing to provide us with expert statements in our continued litigation against the Justice Department to have certain redactions from the Strzok document removed. Kevin unhesitatingly provided us with two affidavits.
As we learn more from Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel about the treacherous James Comey, Comey’s disfigurement of the FBI, and his evil cabal of co-conspirators, it is worth reflecting on the life of Kevin Brock, who represented the best that the FBI can be. Additionally, I would encourage everyone to read a very moving tribute written by a former FBI colleague, Mark Ferbrache, available here.
Every young federal agent and analyst, as I was myself at one time, should aspire to be as fine a civil servant and American patriot as Kevin R. Brock was. He was the best of us. Rest in peace, my friend. And, thank you.
William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, private, and non-profit sectors for 39 years. He is a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, Inc., and has been a contributor to Townhall, American Thinker, Epoch Times, The Federalist, American Greatness, and other publications. His work has been featured on CBS News' 48 Hours Mysteries and NBC News' Dateline. (The views expressed are the author’s alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.)
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