Kash Patel, onetime FBI target, now on track to run the FBI

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-22 16:31:09 | Updated at 2024-12-22 21:26:29 5 hours ago

Kash Patel, onetime FBI target, now on track to run the FBI
Washington exaimner ^ | 12/20/24 | Byron York

Posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:00 AM PST by CFW

KASH PATEL, ONETIME FBI TARGET, NOW ON TRACK TO RUN THE FBI. Not long ago, a left-wing journalist argued that when Republicans describe Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI director as a way to “clean out” the FBI and “restore its integrity,” they are in fact creating “cover to go along with Trump’s scheme to unleash the FBI on enemies.”

It’s a common criticism in anti-Trump circles. But it raises a question. Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after? If one wants to discuss the prospect of a new director unleashing the FBI on enemies, shouldn’t he grapple with the reality of years of bureau leadership unleashing the FBI on enemies?

During the Trump years, FBI directors and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials did the following:

1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates.

2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers.

3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.

4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser.

5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States.

6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research.

7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products.

8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.

9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president.

10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...

TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; dojfbi; kashpatel; trump

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The list of crimes the FBI and DOJ have committed over the past few years should have every voter up in arms. Yet Democrats and the media have cheered them on every step of the way.

Now they pretend to be concerned over a "politicized" FBI? Spare me the fake outrage.

1 posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:00 AM PST by CFW

To: CFW

America’s STASI should be shut down and dismantled.

It’s time to start over. The necessary functions it performs can easily be re-created elsewhere

But leaving the bureaucracy, structure and continuity of the present management intact is VERY dangerous for the Republic - not to mention any future conservatives around after Trump is gone.

2 posted on 12/22/2024 8:21:18 AM PST by PGR88

To: All

There shouldn’t be an FBI at all

3 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:27 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)

To: CFW

Spare me the fake outrage.

They lost their narrative and they're desperately trying to create a new one.

4 posted on 12/22/2024 8:23:17 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)

To: CFW

I’m rooting for some payback.

5 posted on 12/22/2024 8:24:51 AM PST by ryderann

To: CFW

6 posted on 12/22/2024 8:25:41 AM PST by nopardons

To: CFW

“Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after?”

They CORNERED Trump in 2017 and prevented him from removing the scum in charge. The BIGGER question is where was Biden’s people from 2021 to now? Oh yeah, they were using the FBI as their Brownshirts.

7 posted on 12/22/2024 8:27:02 AM PST by BobL

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