Former FBI Agents believe that Kash Patel is the right pick to reform the FBI.
Ben Sothers, a former FBI agent, told The Washington Times: “I like him. … I think he can certainly bring the cultural changes needed in the bureau. It seems like he prioritizes the Constitution and the American people over political initiatives, which is how an FBI director should be… He’s a really transparent guy who was a public defender, so he understands due process to an extent that most people won’t.”
Dal Rae Beach, a former supervisory special agent who worked at the bureau for 13 years, told The Washington Times that Kash is the “kind of director we really need” and praised his “amazing background in national security.”
Daniel Boyer, a former FBI special agent of 24 years, told The Washington Times, “He seems like a no-nonsense guy. I’m just so tired of the same old, same old.”
Kash Patel has received widespread praise since President Trump’s announcement Saturday night.
Former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien wrote: “President [Donald Trump] has made America safer & more just by his nomination of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI. He will be a worthy successor to my friend, Christopher Wray. Kash Patel served [as] a Snr. Director for counterterrorism when I was National Security Advisor. I was able to count on him to get any job done no matter how complex or difficult the task. He handled some of the nation’s most sensitive issues with care and discretion. From assisting President Trump in the take down of ISIS and bringing justice to Kayla Mueller’s murderer – al Baghdadi – to risking his life in Syria for hostage Austin Tice, Kash Patel fought for America. I have no doubt that Kash Patel will inspire our line FBI agents who want to fight crime, destroy the cartels, capture spies, and jail mobsters, thugs, fraudsters and traffickers.”
And in a Fox News column, David Marcus wrote: “What Patel can bring to the FBI is fairness, honesty, the actual blindfold that lady justice is supposed to wear. No good person should fear that, it should not threaten anything true or just.”
Written By John Solomon, Just The News
Kash Patel’s prescription for an ailing FBI: accountability and house cleaning
When Ronald Reagan sought to reshape the federal government nearly a half century ago, he and his team adopted a simple philosophy: personnel is policy. In other words, the people you hire, and fire, will make a difference.
President-elect Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, subscribes to a similar prescription for the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, which has lost significant trust from the American people over a decade of scandal and failure.
From his time as chief investigative counsel at the House Intelligence Committee, where he unraveled the FBI’s bogus Russia collusion narrative, to his best-selling book “Government Gangsters” where he chronicled the weaponization of law enforcement against Trump and conservatives, Patel has laid out clear plans on how to re-focus the bureau on its core missions of law enforcement and intelligence gathering and away from politics.
That job, he insists, begins by cleaning house throughout the FBI’s several layers of leadership that became infected with ideologies like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and created a culture where parents and traditional Catholics were viewed as extremist threats and support for Trump and the Second Amendment were deemed reasons to review an employee’s security clearance.
In his book “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy,” Patel argues that a thorough “house cleaning” of FBI leadership is the key to resetting the agency and unleashing the skills of its rank-and-file agents.
“I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion,” he wrote. “Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you. That means the people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.”
But he also has made clear that his disdain for the bureau’s current leadership is matched by a similar respect for the capabilities and patriotism of rank-and-file agents, recently shouting them out recently for uncovering an Afghan national’s plot to commit a terror attack on Election Day.
“That’s to the credit of the everyday men and women of the FBI, DOD and DOJ, not the leadership that has corrupted those institutions,” he said in October.
Over the last two years in interviews with Just the News, Patel has laid out several ideas for fixing the FBI, including:
- Canceling plans for an expensive new FBI headquarters and turning the current headquarters into a “museum for the Deep State.”
- Moving leaders out of Washington and into the field closer to the people they serve
- Shrinking components of the FBI that have little public benefit; and
- Holding accountable those officials responsible for the politicization of prior investigations, including termination and prosecutions.
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I have no problem with Kash Patel as FBI director. I would like to see dan bongino also play an important role in security.