Many people were thrilled with the nomination and eventual confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. However, with decades of researching the political weaponization of the FBI and against the known capabilities of the nominee, we were not part of the thrilled group.
The non-pretenders looked at the challenge, contrast the scope of work against the skillset of the person selected to confront the institutional corruption, and warned people there was more reason to be apprehensive than optimistic.
Do you remember us outlining how the various FBI field offices would be keeping Patel/Bongino tied up with busy work, and stuff to go on TV about.
That said, we don’t want him to fail, but Director Patel has walked himself into a gauntlet of consequence that will be difficult to exit given his lack of discernment – evidenced in the events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The people in control of FBI field operations (not Kash), set up their agency head by informing the boss a suspect was in custody.
The ever focused on public opinion, Director Kash Patel, then took to Twitter at 6:21 pm on September 10th to relay the news. According to media reports Patel was just about to eat dinner at a swanky New York City restaurant when he sent the text message.
We all watched it unfold.
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After eating dinner at Rao’s, an embarrassed Kash Patel was then forced to retract his public statement, walking back his message that a suspect was in custody at 7:59 pm, a little over 1.5 hours later.
The FBI field operatives smiled. Egg applied as expected, it worked brilliantly.
Kash Patel couldn’t then turn to those who set him up with too much anger, because their defense was, “we were questioning a suspect, we didn’t tell you to go public with it – and as it turned out the suspect was cleared.”
It was a brilliant maneuver, likely intended to undermine his authority and position. It worked perfectly.
Did you see Kash Patel’s face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didn’t say a word at the microphone?
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National media and DC political opposition now runs with the “incompetent” narrative, albeit rightly deserved but for other bigger matters, and the leadership structure of the FBI is weakened.
The institutional elements in control pulled off a great hit. Well played FBI bad guys. Well played.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Director Patel will shift his position and recognize the scale of opposition inside the institution he keeps praising. [Although I doubt his ego will allow him to reset.]
Kash Patel has essentially neutered himself by falling prey to the most transparently obvious ploy of the intel operatives within the institution.
Now, the media has a narrative to enhance, and Director Patel is scheduled to be questioned in the Senate later this week. What comes next will be entirely the result of his own self harm.
Those Machiavellian FBI guys are cruel.
Every adverse operative within the FBI will be back channeling specific investigative information to the Democrat inquisitors in advance, so questions can be specifically formatted.
Whether he can see it or not, FBI Director Kash Patel is being set up by his own agency in collaboration with the Senate guards in DC.
Unfortunately, Kash Patel is now in a defensive mode trying to promote his image over the past 24-hours by retweeting positive articles about him as written by the sources he uses to deliver information, John Solomon (Tick-Tock) and Brooke Singman (Fox).
It’s all quite transparent, and simultaneously a hot mess. “The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.”
I’m not sure if President Trump can see it unfolding, or if President Trump is simply trying to support his FBI director and simultaneously avoid collateral embarrassment. Either way, given the fortunate situation where the father of the assassin secured his son and turned him into police, President Trump is supporting the successful outcome.
There is a sense of familiarity, a feeling similar to NSA Director Mike Waltz, about it:
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Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization. Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.
Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political. We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.
These are not disputed realities.
The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of DC.
Tangentially related: (1) What’s the status of the DC pipe bomber case? And (2) are the 40 FBI agents who worked on the Mueller investigation, still employed?



Kash needs to be replaced with someone who can clean house. Completely dismantle it if necessary.
Padlock the buildings. Clean them out. Then sell them. No more FBI.
If we clean out a 3-letter agency, then out of spite the fired former employees might likely sell out to the CCP, become sleeper cells for wealthy arabs, etc.
Those types are doing it now and receiving two paychecks. Getting rid of them means their information will go stale and their evil will have to come from the Outside not the inside. Getting the cancer out is always the best choice.
Who is the Senate-confirmable nominee that can do that? You need someone with the skills of a Stephen Miller who can still get the support of RINOlandia. No such person exists.
Anyone who’s already been confirmed can take the position.
Thune just went “nuclear” supposedly so now it only takes 50 votes, right? But whose name could make it out of a committee vote?
Keep in mind every person fired will have a lawfare lawsuit further undermining Patel. If you fire all or dismantle everything you still need people to catch all the criminals the left is letting out of jail. This is a can’t win for any director that tries to change things.
Maybe PDJT needs to somehow assign National Guard and/or US Marshalls to help clean up the backlog. The new co-deputy director Andrew Bailey, a better manager, will help, but he just started September. We have a long way to go.
If they were actually doing real work catching real bad guys, many would agree with you, but we know they only (setup) catch conservatives.
That shouldn’t be allowed to stand.
The US Marshalls, Secret Service and FBI are all compromised.
Welcome to the fine, upstanding employees of the swamp federal government.
I already commented on what action whistle blower feds advised.
These guys would never be approved to fill the director’s position.
However, if even a few of them could be rehired to assist Bongino with sorting out the higher ranking bad apples. It would really help him supervise with input on which agents are reliable.
The director is mainly a spokesperson- or CEO. Kash can just keep fumbling around in that position. Time is wasting away!
US Marshals ran the J6 prison in Washington DC!
And replace with whom?
Why do we need have to replace them?
Ask NCMama.
Before someone can clean the FBI house, We the People need to clean out the US Senate.
No serious reformer will ever receive confirmation by the current US Senate.
President Trump can fire him,Bongino and Bondi then replace them with an Acting AG and a Acting FBI director so then they can .clean house.
I may be wrong, but can it get any worse?
Sundance thinks that Patel is weak. I disagree because the corrupt Senate wouldn’t approve any of them.
I have had nightmares the last two nights. I saw the video when Charlie Kirk got shot.
The rank and vile are pure evil.
What makes you think those people will clean house?
I think Kash needs a huge crew to go through everything and everyone and mind his 6 – strategizing.
I also had a nightmare realizing the enormity of events and honestly I don’t get nightmares.
Today I managed to get to church for the first time in a long long time fearing that I would find myself getting up and leaving quickly and I didn’t! It was actually really good. The pastor was going straight from the book and I took some sustenance from it.
I think you fail to understand that these FBI agents and employees are protected by the civil service system. If they are not in Senior Executive Service positions they cannot be summarily fired for no reason. Moreover, they would all have the right to litigate their firings. Look at what happened with Peter Stryk and his girlfriend. They both won the litigation lotto.
Here’s a crazy thought: Keep the FBI busy with busy work and go around them. Use Sheriffs Marshalls and whoever else is available to take on some of the changes we want.
Deputize them like they are the new temporary FBI and use the deputies as they did in the old west. Confuse the heck out of the FBI players who think they have all the cards!
I like it!!
Change the name of the FBI to something that fits the new ingredients and call them the Great New American Society of Honor. GNASH! As in we are tired of gnashing our teeth
over their failures.
Set up centers of expertise offering various investigative services to state governments. Start reassigning those thousands in DC out to the states. Don’t want to accept an assignment? By By. Then make it a requirement to relocate for any grade promotion. No more in house promotions. This would help break up cliques. Keep a minimum staff in DC for administrative duties only.
That’s why we need a huge cleanup crew. The reasons are there. There has to be a way to fix this and them.
No, but they can be relieved of their duties and put in a room with no connectivity and have their security clearances suspended. Clearance are a privilege and not a right. Clearances are need to do the work, and if they are prevent from doing anything then they don’t need the clearance. They still have employment, still paid, but have no access to anything. I bet there are some places that these guy detest. Send some of them there.
“If they are not in Senior Executive Service positions they cannot be summarily fired for no reason.”
The problem is right now there are dozens of legitimate and legal reasons to fire thousands of them. Many of the agents have broken many laws.
Patel has looked the other way and even praised those that need to be fired.
next up – pete hegseth? or a “circle back” to tulsi gabbard? and where is bongino in all this?
Bongino is still on YouTube yelling and screaming incoherently.
Probably wishing he was managing the US Secret Service wherein his real expertise exists, or maybe quietly wishing he hadn’t been called at all….
It’s a funny thing but when I hear the terms “skillset” or “set of skills” I envision Liam Neeson in the first film of the “Taken” series –
his character has a particular set of skills –
when I see or hear or read a Tweet from Kash Patel, I just do not envision the ferocity, drive and high-octane set of skills of Liam Neeson in “Taken”!
Liam Neeson reading a script. With a director guidig his tone, his facial expressions, his body language. Ah, there’s the answer!
So in conclusion, Kash Patel is a witless yokel who just fell off the turnip truck. And, like the Corvair, unsafe at any speed. He should probably arrest himself for the safety of the nation.
Kash Patel affirmative action in action!!!!!
Disfuntional Egregiously
Incompetent
Kash is a nice guy who means well, loves President Trump and unfortunately is in way over his head at the FBI. It’s why Matt Gatz isn’t AG at the DOJ.
Matt Gatz? LOL
Agreed, Sue.
Patel is a nice guy, had good intentions when he took the job, and is hopelessly in over his head. Unfortunately, I don’t see a life-saver ready to help him out, and I agree with Sundance, even if someone was able to fish him out, he wouldn’t admit that he can’t swim.
Well done!
I think he’s being sarcastic.
You may well be right. But it looks like he’s gone now.
I must confess, I think I made it a “bit” over done.
No. Not at all.
Kash Patel has strengths, but not in managing that rogue LEA that has festered in corruption for so many decades and already determined to make a fool out of anyone who had the temerity to come there without any prior FBI experience and believe they would clean it all up.
Ralph Nader was a 🐂💩 artist vis a vis the Corvair.
I had a used one. It was one of the worst lemons ever made.
As for “the safety of the nation,” you and Louie Louie might well consider how many lives have been saved by Nader’s efforts to require the installation of seat belts in automobiles.
During the Civil War, the Union Army had to go through a gaggle of ineffective, overly political and/or incompetent generals within the senior ranks until Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman finally led the Union to victory. Both Grant and Sherman had been the subjects of multiple efforts to undermine their command. Grant was removed from positions. Sherman was accused by the press of being insane.
Effective leaders get things done, regardless of the resistance that confronts them. Ineffective leaders don’t.
This is a very interesting comment. Sadly, I cannot think of anyone who could be the Grant or Sherman of our day. Any ideas?
Spero: Thank you. Grant and Sherman were men of tremendous will and integrity. There were few men of their caliber at the time. One was General Robert E. Lee. All three were graduates of West Point, as were many other Union and Confederate Generals. There was constant in-fighting, back-stabbing and intrigue among the senior commanding officers. Of course, President Lincoln made his own personnel changes and had his own critics, even among the senior officers in the Union Army.
Everything that is happening today has happened before. Take, for example, the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth. That incident was fraught with conspiracy. The press played an important role in inflaming northerners and southerners alike.
You are my new favorite commenter. Thanks for that additional bit of history. Charlie Kirk was well on his way to “Making Men Great Again.” Let’s hope our youth continues on that path. As you point out, great men are essential to the world.
Appreciate the reminder not joking.
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting, its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers. It is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
– William Tecumseh Sherman
Louie Louie: Yes, that’s the kind of leader we need. Not DC types and people who enjoy cameras. Sherman detested journalists (as you quoted, previously).
Looking at you EU!
No they started with Wingfield Scott. He was soooo old and antiquated, compaired to those young Virginia whipper snappers coming out of the WP. Then Lincoln hired and fired McClellan and his “inferiority complex” at least half a dozen times, before he got Grant to sober up.
You do not want a Grant or Sherman, you want a Stonewall, Forrest and Stewart.
But they were the losers. Just sayin. And democrats to boot.
Winfield Scott. J.E.B. Stuart.
I’ll take Sherman in this instance.
He likes to burn things to the ground.
viceroygrey: The Union Army started with Winfield, Scott, but, he was the first of others. Stonewall Jackson was killed due to wounds sustained by friendly fire by his own Confederate troops.
Stonewall, Forrest and Stewart were effective commanders, but the victors write the history.
Kash needs to read Machiavelli.
The balance between fear and love, the importance of appearing virtuous, and the pragmatic use of force. Effective leadership often requires strategic decisiveness and realism. Kash needs to learn how the world really works.
It won’t help him. He’s not a leader. No amount of books or self psychology or even wishful thinking will change that.
Leaders are naturally born. He’s in the wrong place. Bongino would be far better in Patels position.
Sadly, I think you’re right.
I don’t think it’s sad. I’ve come to actively dislike Patel because no one could be doing a worse job. His “good FBI agents” mantra is pure crap and if he had a brain he would know it. I hope President Trump is working on a replacement.
I’m not sure what on Patel’s CV inspired Trump to pick him…I see only activity without accomplishment in his career. But in Patel’s case, maybe naivety is a defense. Regarding Trump working on a replacement, DJT appointed Sessions, Barr, Rosenstein, Wray, Bondi, Patel, and Bongino. Based on this losing record, I hope he leaves Patel in his job. He may be weak but so far he does not appear to be into the self-aggrandizement that others are want to do. [sarc]
I hate to be cynical, but since I was not an avid follower of either man, I have no dog in this fight. My initial reaction to them was a shrug and “Okay, we’ll see.” What I saw wasn’t impressive, and the early, joint interview left me underwhelmed, to say the least. I wish them well, but maybe no one is up to this task. It seems that probablh neither of them is.
Not everyone can be a Dwight D. Eisenhower. Not even Trump.
Correct.
I see your point but I don’t think the world really does work. In that context what direction should FBI director go? It appears he is straddling the fence between your description of leadership and going along to try to get something done. Anyone who can get confirmed will not be able to go against 99% of the rank and file. A different direction is needed.
I have advocated for three divisions, East and West coast and Midwest, each with their own leadership chosen by the states, not congress, under the direction of a director, where each division must report to the others and comply with information requests by any other division. Make all field agents work out of a division headquarters location that must be agreed upon by all the states in the division. No State gets more pull than others. Maybe having a system that is more local that must answer to other divisions where the director basically enforces rules might work.
He mostly need to read about the fox, to avoid traps.
Very few people understand the scope of the problem, as it reaches far into the political bleachers. So Patel and Bondi are fighting not just they own charges, but also the $$$$$ interests of many politicians on both sides of the aisle.
perhaps he should develop a few teams that he trusts
and send them out when circumstances warrant
if I were him I would not trust the in the field
management or crew
He’s going to have to humble himself, admit he doesn’t know everything and ask for help. But I don’t think he has the character to do that.
Truly.
Big whoop. You take a job, you need to deal with “stuff” or get out of the way so a more competent person can do it.
If I hear Hannity say one more time, “ 99.9% of the FBI agents are true and patriotic to our country….”……..
I’m sorry but Hannity is a Rino Swamp rat go which ever way the wind(money)blows idiot!
100% Correct…he thinks far too much of himself and his intelligence!
Go which ever way the wind bloviates. There I fixed it first you.
Don’t be so hard on Sean. He is improving.
Sean Hannity has stated varying percentages over time regarding how many FBI agents he considers good. He frequently claimed that 99% of FBI agents are good, honorable people who work hard to keep the country safe, emphasizing this figure when distinguishing between rank-and-file agents and the agency’s leadership. More recently, he revised this estimate downward, saying it is now about 95%
Sarcasm I hope?
Sort of.
He has a long way to go.
We don’t have that long to live.
This ^
I’d rather listen to three hours of Miley Cyrus Sings Liberace’s Greatest Hits, than three minutes of Li’l Sean.
Don’t be so hard on Sean. He is improving.
Sean Hannity has stated varying percentages over time regarding how many FBI agents he considers good. He frequently claimed that 99% of FBI agents are good, honorable people who work hard to keep the country safe, emphasizing this figure when distinguishing between rank-and-file agents and the agency’s leadership. More recently, he revised this estimate downward, saying it is now about 95%
My mute button gets a workout whenever Sean interrupts whomever guest is about to make a very salient point, and instead starts one of his many canned soliloquies….. of “I used to be a roofer, short order cook, while getting a black belt”…you know the drill….
OMG, do I miss Rush right now…😢😢😢🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I never hear Hannity, nor even the mention of his name since I turned of the tell-a-vision.
Your real problem is listening to Hannity to begin with.
😂😂see my reply above to LouieLouie….👍👍
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Can I help?
Turn off Hannity and you want have to hear him.
Ditto to Louie Louie above..
Pls don’t watch Hannity. David Hogg is the son of a typical FBI agent ultra progressive anti White democrat liberal. Progressive anti White anti America propaganda right in his home.
Typical White government employee at every government level. . Has to swear fealty to anti American anti White progressivism. Often even write an essay to get just an interview
DC, our capitol has been the equivalent of Havanna in 1960 for decades. My entire life
Google Gramisci
Him and Dana Perino.
Gotta protect the institutions of the USA, can’t have the Pleb questing authority or heaven forbid vigilantism., that’s our effen job.
But I am glad all the JFK files were released; they put to bed all my questions. But do we have to wait 50 years for the Epstein files, they’re right there on the corner of AG Bondi desk.
I’m getting the feeling that they fell off of the corner of the desk into the round file!?
I think he finally took off that CIA lapel pin.
The first thing Patel did when he was sworn in was praise the FBI agents. That said all we need to hear, and we see it born out now. Terribly frustrating.
Wasn’t he also busy re-decorating his office and/or working on plans for the new FBI building. Didn’t he put equipment in his office so he didn’t have to go to the gym? This was when he wasn’t in Las Vegas.
Michael Savage is quite fed up with Hannity. He said in his YouTube video 2 days ago that he is sure Hannity actually works for our rotten government. I don’t think he’s wrong.
If Trump could make Rubio his SoS AND National Security Advisor after Mike Waltz, how about making Tulsi interim head of FBI in addition to her DNI position.
How about Harriet Hageman?
Great idea!
Harriet would be great, but she will be the next governor of Wyoming. 🤞🏼
I’d love it if she took a detour at the FBI for a couple of years.
I have thoughts like that too as well as probably another controversial one. I admired the secrecy and expertise of the agency and guys who planted those exploding beepers.
Not wanting a mission that involves injury but a mission that roots out antifas and dark forces secretly and efficiently. Find them, expose them, charge them. Probably contractors from outside the US (so there’s the controversy.)
Yes, I dream.
Having read 78 comments, this is the one that makes the most sense to me.
And let her put the whistleblowers on staff as advisers.
And anyone else she thinks would help her.
If Patel fails, who would we like to see replace him and clean house? I haven’t a clue, I hope somebody on this forum has a good answer.
Rep Clay Higgins.
Eric prince knows how to get sh!t done how to lead and manage a large group of professionals . would love to see him in this administration just my 2 cents
Agree Red Dog, however, EP has lots of “baggage”. He would probably never get confirmed…would rather see him as an advisor to Hegseth.
Also a great idea the guy is wicked smart and a series historian what is equally important is he is a true Patriot
And all the years in dark to black ops…He KNOWS lots of things about LOTS of ELECTED people….so yeah …I guess in confirmation context, THAT TOO is baggage……🤔
But good skill set.
No. Prince is a little shady.
The man they brought in from Missouri is already in place.
Nobody does either.
Know many of you may may disagree with me but put Steve Bannon in charge of the FBI – loved his take on Gov Cox press conference where Kash only talked about good coordinated team work blah blah blah. We need action not noise!
Waltz was the NSA – National Security Advisor, not the NSA [National Security Agency] Director, as stated in the article.
They’re still hiding his identity.
Why haven’t they released the pictures showing him wearing a dress, make up and high heels?
Just like BLM, Antifa, the FBI is protecting their foot soldiers.
So according to the Daily Mail the FBI questioned Robinson’s roommate before they knew Robinson was the perp. Nice try, FBI. But that’s not how it went down.
Perhaps part of the problem is Kash has been dealing with the Utah Mormans circling the wagons trying to protect their image, religion, tribe. The Governor and likely most of the law enforcement are LDS. They have to hate this exposure.
Here’s a photo of Tyler Robinson’s Furry trans boyfriend welcoming back a LDS guy from his 2 year mission. We don’t know who the people are, but there have been stories of LDS kids getting into LBGT relationships during their mission years.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=24677483101846236
We read the locals didn’t give Kash Patel the photo of Tyler or the trans boyfriend for 12 hours.
The Mormons may have tried to slow things down or hide some of the shameful mess.
What is the view of the Mormon organization on the LBGT and transgender issues?
Gov Cox supports guys in womens sports as well as gender transition and mutilation surgery.
Charlie Kirk really criticized Gov Cox about all that.
Good catch.
Great points to raise.
The Mormons have a heavy influence in Idaho as well.
0.o
Kash always seems to be concerned w/looking and being cool. He seems to take advantage and enjoy his “privilege”. Dunno.
I want a real LEO that has the skillset to be in charge of the Feebs, better yet just dissolve the whole agency and create something new, the same w/so many other agencies that need to be cleansed.
Hard to watch. I thought/think of him as (at most) a division or department head level. Nothing about him says executive. Dan is definitely a field/team level person. Maybe good guys, but bad choices/fit for their roles.
Knowing they had a keystone cop in Kash those Machiavellian FBI types must have been giddy knowing what they could do to him. Praying he gets out of his own way and that he can put his pride aside to see what is really going on.
Is there any chance he will get the axe like Mike? If so, would the potential replacement be worse or better?
Oh, and really bad optics to be out at a fine dining establishment after a famous American has been assassinated. Who does that?
An amateur does that.
It’s the unprofessional need to be first at the “newspeak”, excitable bs and hubris aspect – KP is not leadership, or big picture — does not garner trust or respect! Less is more. Also, If every state has their “bureau of investigation” how and why do we need the FBI overlay?
Ya but what’s for dessert
He should have been on a plane to Utah to take charge of the situation.
He should have made this political assassination the biggest thing since JFK.
What does he do when he FINALLY goes to Utah? He stood there looking both ways at the same time and said nothing.
That’s not a leader. Even the corrupt Chris Wray would have spoke to the Media.
He did one thing while he stood around. He turned his face to the camera so we could see his odd stare that makes him resemble a lobotomy victim.
I saw Patel on War Room in the last few years and never noticed his now pervasive bug-eyed stare. Now he is never without it.
Chris Wray would’ve simply refused to answer all questions “due to the ongoing investigation.”
Not saying that would be any worse…might even be a tad better than the current ‘Keystone Kops’ sideshow….
Chris Wray would have said “So far the tips we’ve been getting it looks like the assassin was MAGA. He was a registered republican and claimed to be a Christian. It’s also been reported he hated blacks and homosexuals and the trans community. That’s all we know right now.”
Probably afraid he’d say the wrong thing again and get gaslit by his own employees…again.
And if so that proves he’s a coward and a paper tiger.
Afraid of his own shadow.
I once had a table at Rao’s. Took four months in advance and an assist from a known regular. Had to cancel a week out because of a family medical matter.
Seems Kash could have bowed out because of the murder of an American hero. Just my $0.02
A narcissist.
Correction:
The FBI/CIA counterpart in the USSR was the KGB or Kommitet Gosudartveniy Bezonastnosti. The FSB or FEDERALNIY Sluzhba Bezonastnost is the modern counterpart for the Russian FEDERATION
He sure talked a good game before he was hired. I’ll still hold out hope for a few months. This all seems weird to me. He worked for Nunes who seems a straight arrow.
I feel the same, but I’ve passed the point of caring to figure it out. The job is too important to what we the people need from the FBI. All I want now is anyone but Patel.
Harriet Hageman is my first choice.
Patel and Hannity both hold the same beliefs about the FBI’s “rank and file”. Both are wrong. Very wrong.
I suspect he sees it.
From both directions at the same time.
All kidding aside he’s way above his head. He a paper tiger. A toothless wonder.
A real leader would have took control of situation and spoke.
He sat there terrified of his own shadow.
The corrupt agents were not planning on catching the assassin.
In fact the FBI didn’t even catch him.
He’s a joke. Throw Bongino in and Bondi in the same pile.
What if most of your employees are rotten?
I still feel for all those gymnasts…..was anyone let go?
1. You fire them. Clean house.
They’re might be short staff for awhile but those left will do a better job without the corrupt riff raff in their way.
Then go on a hiring spree. Only hire qualified unwoke agents.
USAFirst!: You are on a roll, and you’re right.
Watching the FBI folks volleying Kash’s head back-and-forth like a tennis ball was a wonderment!
“We have the guy!”
“Nope. Wrong guy!”
“This time we have him in custody!”
“Okay. Third time’s the charm!”
Supposedly, Kash wasn’t shown the photos of the “real guy” until 12 hours after he was in custody.
Talk about getting played!
It was like watching the roadrunner administering Wylie Coyote smackdowns.
Kash should have followed the advice of the former FBI whistleblowers. I don’t remember their names. However, they testified before Congress.
Their advice was that at least a solid layer of GS-11 & possibly GS-9 agents should have been terminated. They are the ones who were reportedly most apt to be problematic. I wish one (or some) of those former agents could be rehired to assist Bongino. None of them would be approved for Patel or Bongino’s positions. However, they could be rehired to assist because they know who the evildoers are
From what I could understand from his incoherent yelling, Bongino knows who the anti White anti American progressives are. Get rid if them fight the lawsuits bribe then with very generous early pensions. Whatever it takes get rid of them.
Watch his YouTubes Either he suffers from some kind of irritable tantrum syndrome or he’s on some kind of upper drug..
Kyle Seraphin is one of the whistleblowers.
I think he’s full of himself. Pathetic joke on us all!
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Assist Kash Patel.
Patel is not the one who actually oversees the cases. That falls under Bongino’s job description..
Defund the FBI.
The FBI is not required by the constitution and based on their actions – every one of them should be eliminated.
Add the CIA, NSA, DOJ, and the IRS too!
One thing I don’t quite understand. With Inspector Clouseau as their director, why would the bad guys want anybody else? They should be making him look good so they can continue their nefarious activities unrestrained.
Just the fact that Patel is in charge over them has them upset.
They’re also upset he fired their agency head awhile back.
Well done 😎
They probably don’t want Patel fired. If he is fired they risk getting a replacement director who is more competent.
They probably want him left in place, neutered and crippled. That way they can run amok with no oversight.
If Patel were smart he could return the favor. Don’t outright fire topmost problem agents, just reassign them into meaningless jobs, cut off from access to information, where they can’t influence anything. If Patel fires them, they will get sympathy, they will file lawsuits and job grievances. So keep them on the payroll in a powerless, information-less role. Pull their clearances or cut their access to classified data. Strip them of management responsibilities. Send them into internal exile. Make them liaison officers assigned over to USAID or Timbuktu.
A friend of mine attended the election night celebration at Mar-a-Lago. He said Kash acted like a jerk and most of the night no one would talk to him.
When I heard that DJT had nominated him as FBID, my heart sank.
rumors…
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Can you really claim incompetence from the director when the only thing the FBI contributed to catching the shooter was releasing photos and videos which led family to turn him in? And apparently the FBI held those back from the director for 12 hours.
So the FBI’s role was to allow the public to catch the shooter 12 hours later than could have been possible had the FBI not sat on the images.
I heard he had told them to release the picture of the suspect that they had and they held back from releasing the photos for 12 hours.
In other words they flipped him off.
Sorry we need someone that’s going to come in swinging the hammer. Giant letdown is an understatement. Imagine someone like Judge Janine or Tom Homan running things. The time for being nice is long gone.
Actually there really is NO time for being nice. We want ACTION. Being “nice” should not even enter into the discussion. Either do your job or getouttahere!
I don’t see that he did anything wrong. A subject was in custody and they released him after questioning. What? You’re not going to arrest someone shouting, “I shot him?”
The problem wasn’t the arrest. It was the Big Public Announcement immediately after the arrest of a “subject” or “suspect” (or both). At the point that announcement was made, LE had apparently done exactly NO actual investigation to confirm the subject/suspect had done anything.
out of his depth
reached his peter principle prior to
The FBI is and has been what it is now since it’s inception. Never forget that Edgar Hoover was a cross dressing homosexual who led some good cops in the papers while spying on and for politicians and anyone that was a threat to the politicians that controlled him by keeping his tranny secret.
J Edgar Hoover was never a “cross dresser”. was not a homosexual. He was framed, his character assassinated, just like they have tried to do to President Trump, simply because he was investigating several prominent politicians…
You need to read some real History instead of the revised, politically correct “history” published currently.
Clyde Tolbert.
You mean after constantly praising the 99.99999999999% of my rank and file they still won’t luv me?
The same Utah FBI Office that sent FBI Agents with flash-bang grenades at dawn to murder a 300 pound 75 year old man who needed a walker just to stand up caring for his blind son that they interviewed the day before…
FBI’s killing of Utah man prompts questions from neighbors | Utah | The Guardian
Residents ask if Craig Robertson, who could ‘barely get around’ but posted threats against Biden, ‘warranted that kind of response’
A clearer picture is emerging of the 75-year-old Utah man shot dead by the FBI after they tried to serve a search warrant hours before Joe Biden arrived in the state on a re-election campaign swing.
But questions are also being asked as to whether Craig Robertson was a “credible threat”, as the FBI claims, or as neighbors in Provo, Utah, have described to local media as a man harboring anti-government views who walked with a cane and liked to bluster and tell big stories, especially on social media.
Robertson had posted threats against the president, including asking whether Utah would become famous “as the place a sniper took out Biden the Marxist”. He’d also urged Utah residents to fire their guns into the air when Air Force One arrived, the Deseret News reported.
Late last month Robertson posted a message: “Hey FBI, you still monitoring my social media? Checking so I can be sure to have a loaded gun handy in case you drop by again.”
On 6 August, three days before Biden’s visit, according to a 37-page federal complaint, Robertson posted: “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old ghillie suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 sniper rifle.”
Questions are being asked if the FBI’s response was unduly harsh. “The FBI just came and shot an elderly man from my ward,” Travis Clark told the paper. “You know, a guy who’s nearly 80 years old, 300 pounds and can barely get around with a cane.”
Despite his anti-government rhetoric, Robertson was described as the “teddy bear” in the church congregation who was so immobilized that he’d drive 200 yards to church.
He was also known as a talented carpenter who built intricate coffee tables and rocking chairs. Despite being known as a gun collector he was not thought to carry at all times. “If he carried, we never knew about it,” Clark said to the Deseret News. “We all knew he had guns, that he collected guns … but I mean, it’s Utah.”
“I just think he was an old kook shooting his mouth off,” Clark said. “There was nothing he ever did that would have made me think that he was either mentally or physically capable of doing anything. And anybody who knew him knew that.
“I just can’t believe that this man warranted that kind of response,” Clark added.
Robertson had previously been visited by agents at his home where he had rejected their concern about his online comments. “I said it was a dream!’
“So a man that sits at home all day, doesn’t have much to do, if he’s on his phone and is involved in politics and has strong political opinions, I’m not surprised that he would make posts like that to try to receive attention,” Robinson told the Deseret News.
“I’m just hoping that the FBI has some more evidence besides Facebook posts to want to raid his house like they did,” he added.
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Clay Higgins would be the perfect replacement if there were more of a cushion in the House
Let’s all help the D-Rats and get rid of all of Trump’s cabinet, shall we?
No, just the ineffective ones.
We didn’t vote for ineffectiveness. We voted for complete change and draining the swamp.
Isn’t it great when the keyboard commandoes fly into action? 🙂
Better than flying on a broom 🧹 Lulu.
I believe that Jim Comey stands ready to serve in this time of national need once Kashmir is removed!
Egoists don’t like to be made fools of, perhaps those smugly texting each other about the ‘hit’ on their boss should perhaps have revisited their notes from their psych evaluation classes.
As for the status of numerous investigations surely no news is good news? After all, he and Bondi are pilloried when they talk about any cases, being accused of making performative announcements instead of quietly making any substantive progress.
Calling for the bull in the China shop
Tom Homan
Kasj Patel and his team worked tirelessly to bring the alleged assassin to justice. Kash Patel is an advocate for truth, accountability, and the constitution. He is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and America First fighter.
The assassin’s father and pastor brought him to justice.
The FBI didn’t even know his name until he arrived at the Sheriff’s Office.
I thought Kash was a good choice for FBI and was supportive based on his stance before being put in that position, as well as the work he did with Nunes to uncover Russia, Russia, Russia.
Now, I feel bad for Kash Patel because he looks weak and is trying too hard to be liked by the FBI.
They are definitely playing him and I don’t think he realizes it.
His job wasn’t to come in there and be liked.
His job was to come in there and reorganize the place.
Admittedly, a herculean job. But that is what a serious CEO is sometimes brought in to do.
Patel hasn’t done that. Nor has he apparently surrounded himself with people to help him do it. Bongino is a podcaster and former front-line LEO, not a seasoned organizational executive.
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Neither one of them are administrators.
Exactly.
Maybe it is a very European or British way of putting it, but it would have been so easy for FBI Director Patel to avoid the embarrassment by changing the initial message to:
A subject suspected of taking part in the shooting [SNIP] is now in custody. We will provide update when available.
Simple and correct even if the subject would have shown to be innocent and had to be released later on. In Britain they usually write “a person is helping the police with their investigation”.
Both of the ‘tangentially related’ questions at the end of the post are benchmarks that must be satisfactorily answered before anyone can start to believe the bureau has begun to be properly reined in and reformed. I suggest there is a third question that also must be satisfactorily answered: When is the bureau going to be required to replace use of the FD-302 form with recorded (audio and visual) subject interviews?
The FD-302 is the way they set up Gen. Flynn in a perjury trap, busily changing and redrafting it over a period of weeks so it would say what they wanted it to say and then claiming it was an accurate written depiction of what happened in their gotcha “interview”. Many defense attorneys criticize it as a form of institutionalized perjury because bureau guidelines prohibit recording of interviews and instead insist on use of that form, which can be modified to say what they want it to say and then the interviewee has no way to prove that it isn’t accurate. They leverage use of that form to threaten criminal charges to turn often-innocent persons into informants or force them to plea to charges that should never have been brought. When whoever is in charge forces this change from written form to recorded interviews, that will go a long way to showing that the place is being reformed, and reformed correctly.
The 302 form belongs in the dustbin of history.
Do a web search on FBI Director Mueller announcing leadership / SAC appointments. FBI has 51 field offices. Mueller put over 20 new leaders in the FBI leadership in the 2002 through 2005 (or so). These people are probably gone now, but the agents they trained are still there . . .This is why Patel is having so much trouble . . .
Why can’t Patel simply say I was given this information by my agents we had the right guy and tweeted about it? It’s their fault they were wrong.
SD inferred in the post that Patel’s ego won’t let him admit they set him up. Nothing to be done about that, other than figure out who should replace him. I would suggest to Patel that pressing matters require him to cancel/reschedule his visit to the Senate this week and then use the time to get his act together. He needs to pull his head out or get out.
Bull in the China shop.
Tom Homan
Thank you for giving this a separate entry. It is a critical continuing weakness to this Administration, and was merely highlighted this past week by Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination.
As I mentioned yesterday, Charlie Kirk might still be alive had Patel began the reform agenda at FBI that he was confirmed to do, seven months ago. A more comprehensive pursuit of Antifa and associated domestic terror organizations might have been possible much sooner had the required personnel and mission reforms been undertaken earlier.
As it is now, next to nothing meaningful has been done with FBI by Patel and Bongino. You can’t reform a corrupted organization with Tweets.
This is essentially nearly the same FBI as it was on July 13, 2024. That was painfully illustrated by the Utah field office chief’s appearance at the first presser.
Patel has been an abject failure, and increasingly an embarrassment to this Administration. He does not have what is required to reform an organization of this size and sophistication. Neither does Dan Bongino, who has not managed anything bigger than a podcast.
I only hope that Andrew Bailey does.
Unless I’m missing something the outcome of this so-called “investigation” would’ve been exactly the same even if the FBI didn’t exist. They provided no relavent information other than some enhanced photos which internet sleuths were already posting hours earlier. All the FBI did was ask the public to help which local law enforcement could’ve just as easily done and then self-congratulate themselves when the dad turned in his deranged son. The FBI has become a useless organization. I had hope President Trump would come to understand this but he clearly does not. Same applies to many other ABC offices under his executive branch.
There are now two deputy fbi agents under Patel. Move one up to replace him which should not require senate approval. If that approval seems impossible, you got another deputy to go in while another appointment of a ne deputy.. Now is the time to remove Patel. Dan Bonjino would surely be better than what is there and is now aware of the fbi fakes. President Trump could finish his term in this way.