Trump Nominates Revealer of the Russiagate Psyop Kash Patel to be New Director of the FBI

He's definitely a Trump ally.

A former FBI special agent is weighing in on Trump's pick to lead the law enforcement agency where she once served, suggesting several concrete steps she says will help it regain the trust of all Americans.

"Over the last several years, the FBI became politically and socially weaponized. That must end," former FBI special agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital." Those responsible for the bureau's destruction must be held accountable with tangible consequences."

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday announced he intends to nominate Kashyap "Kash" Patel to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump nominated in 2017 during his first term in office.

"I am proud to announce that Kashyap 'Kash' Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and 'America First' fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People."

Wray is currently serving a 10-year appointment that began in 2017. He could either resign from his post or be fired.

In his post, Trump wrote that Patel "played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution."

"It is of paramount importance that the new FBI director reform the bureau into an agency that Americans can trust, depend on for unbiased law enforcement and protect them while upholding the Constitution," Parker said. "The FBI needs to get back to its true mission of fighting crime, keeping communities safe and be the agency that solid agents can once again be proud to work for."

Parker added that the new FBI director must overhaul the culture of the agency.

"When I was an FBI special agent, they always drilled into our heads the mantra 'Needs of the Bureau,' which I strongly denounced. It should not be the needs of the bureau, it should be the needs of the American people. As an FBI special agent, my salary came from the taxpayers. They were the ones I was sworn to protect. They were my boss," Parker said.

Patel is a solid, sensible man who has been on the right side of every single Deep State op and hoax.

That means they will stop at nothing to block him.

Patel held numerous national security roles during the first Trump administration but would be a new face at the FBI.

Here are five things to know about Patel.

A loyal Trump ally

Patel has been a staunch ally to Trump, stretching back to the FBI investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign.

Patel got his start in politics as a staffer to then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), working as an adviser on the House Intelligence Committee.

Patel played a key role there in seeking to discredit the committee Democrats' investigation of Trump's ties to Russia. That included authoring a report analyzing FBI and Justice Department responses in their own investigations of Russian election interference.

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"I discovered a coordinated effort to use the Russiagate hoax as a way to attack then-President Trump," Patel wrote in an April email.

"It was a big hoax!"

Patel echoes Trump on weaponization, plans for retribution

Patel regularly attacks a "deep state" that he blames for having "weaponized the government for their own political and personal agenda."

Much of his commentary about alleged government wrongdoing has been focused on both the investigations of Trump, as well as the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters.

"The FBI goes after J6ers like terrorists," he wrote in a March email.

He has also crafted his own list of "government gangsters" that includes Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and former CIA Director Gina Haspel.

Patel has called for using the power of the bureau and the Justice Department to prosecute journalists.

"We're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly -- we'll figure that out," he said during an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast.

He's called for major FBI reforms

Patel has called for major shifts at the FBI, starting on his first day as director.

"I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on Day One and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops," Patel said.

Patel, through his eponymous foundation, has elevated several whistleblowers who have made claims of wrongdoing by the FBI.

"I am on a mission to root out all government gangsters from positions within our bureaus," he wrote in a July email.

Patel has also been a critic of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702, which allows the government to spy on foreigners when they are located abroad.

The FBI relied on a separate provision of the law to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Nonetheless, many FISA critics have called for reforms to the law, including requiring a warrant to review information from Americans communicating with foreigners being surveilled.

During last year's battle to reauthorize Section 702, Patel argued for letting the powerful spy tool lapse. Congress will once again weigh its renewal this coming year.

"We call upon Congress to let it lapse -- better to have no authority for 7 days or so than another 365 days of spying on Trump and his supporters," Patel said at the time in a statement alongside Richard Grenell, who briefly served as director of national intelligence in Trump's first administration.

He criticized Jan. 6 committee

On Jan. 6, Patel was serving as chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who was appointed to the role about two months prior, the day after Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

His short time at the Pentagon earned scrutiny from the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, which asked him to sit for an interview after writing, "there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the Department of Defense and the White House in preparing for and responding to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as documents and information related to your personal involvement in planning for events on Jan. 6 and the peaceful transfer of power."

Patel ultimately sat with the panel's investigators on Dec. 9, after its slate of summer hearings in 2021.

Patel denied any wrongdoing or improper actions related to the attack but has complained about how the Justice Department handled cases involving the rioters.

He's been highly critical of that work, listing California Democrat Adam Schiff, who is moving from the House to the Senate beginning next month, as a "government gangster" and calling former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) "the main architect of this disinformation campaign."

In a May email, he wrote that Cheney "and her band of miscreants suppressed evidence that completely exonerates the Jan. 6 defendants from their ginned-up charge of insurrection."

Unfortunately, the head of the FBI is considered a cabinet-level posting and Trump will need Senate approval to confirm Patel.

I don't think he'll get it, unfortunately:

The hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe sounded the alarm on Monday over President-elect Donald Trump's choice to install MAGA loyalist Kash Patel as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, focusing much of their attention on Patel's promise to "come after" the media.

In fact, Joe Scarborough repeatedly aired a 2023 clip of Patel touting Trump's plan to seek retribution against his opponents if elected, noting that Trump "apologists" on Capitol Hill should be "deeply disturbed by this" and vow to block Patel's nomination.

Trump sparked widespread backlash over the weekend when he announced Patel, who served in numerous positions in the president-elect's first administration, as his choice for the nation's FBI chief. Critics cited his clear lack of qualifications for the position and also cautioned that this was a warning to journalists across the country that Trump was serious about his threats against the free press.

Patel, who has also endorsed aspects of the unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory, has not only pledged his loyalty to the incoming president but also said that Trump should use federal law enforcement and national security organizations to punish his critics, especially within the media.

During a December 2023 appearance on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon's podcast, Patel declared that in a new administration, Trump would fill the FBI, CIA and DOJ with loyalists who would do the president's personal bidding. Specifically, Patel said, they wanted to go after media outlets that accurately reported that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

That's going to be a big problem with him. If that is an accurate claim -- which I shouldn't assume, as we know whenever the media "paraphrases" a statement, they twist the meaning -- then the McConnell club of saboteurs will block him. We have at least six very-nominal "Republicans" who are heavily invested in the Biden "victory," and who actively worked to thwart Trump and depose him. Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Thom Tillis, and Bill Cassidy will all likely vote against Patel just for this statement.

Senatrix Linsey Graham would also vote against Patel if his vote was needed. But he's a cringing toady with the heart of a coward, and continues pretending he's pro-MAGA to subvert it from within. So he won't vote against Patel -- but he'll do everything possible behind the scenes to stop the nomination.

posted by Ace at 03:34 PM

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