Here's what Kash Patel's former colleagues are saying about him

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Posted on 12/06/2024 3:02:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux

President-elect Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be the next FBI director, a person with an extensive background in national security and intelligence.

Patel's experience ranges from personally carrying out dangerous missions in the Middle East in an effort to bring home U.S. hostages to implementing counterterrorism strategies against America’s most-wanted terrorists. Current and former U.S. national security officials and lawmakers say that when looking at his résumé "objectively," he is "one of the most experienced people ever to be nominated" to lead the bureau.

During the first Trump administration, Patel served as a deputy assistant to Trump and as senior director for counterterrorism. In that role, Patel was involved in presidential missions aimed at decimating Al-Qaeda senior leadership and ISIS command and control. Patel was involved in the planning of the mission to take out Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, among others.

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[Former White House national security adviser Robert] O’Brien recalled Patel’s "tremendous personal bravery" with regard to Austin Tice, a hostage who has been held presumably by the Syrian government for more than 12 years.

In 2020, O’Brien said Syrians "finally agreed to let an American come in for negotiations and I asked Kash Patel and Amb. Roger Carstens if they would go."

"I wanted someone from the White House, so it wasn't just representatives of the State Department. Kash was the White House’s man," O’Brien said. "They traveled overland from Beirut to Damascus through territory where the Al Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Hezbollah were all present. It was a very complex situation. They drove all the way to Damascus to meet with the head of Assad's intelligence service."

O’Brien said the "Syrians themselves could easily have taken Kash and Roger hostage."

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1 posted on 12/06/2024 3:02:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux

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