The possibility of President Elect Trump putting Kash Patel into a leadership role at the Federal Bureau of Investigation has the ex-intel community talking points flowing, and the word of the week is "dangerous."
A former agent recently used that word in an interview on CNN:
Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner said if President-elect Trump chooses loyalist and former Trump administration aide Kash Patel to lead the FBI, it would do “massive damage” to the agency.
“Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous because … his resume isn’t traditional,” Brunner said Sunday on CNN.
Brunner later added that Patel “has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack.”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe also thinks Patel in a leadership role at the FBI would be dangerous. Considering the source, this is, in actuality, an unintentional endorsement of Patel:
Former Trump FBI deputy director and CNN senior law enforcement analyst Andrew McCabe said Thursday that Rogers would be a “totally reasonable, logical selection” to nominate to lead the agency, pointing to his knowledge of the intelligence community and his experience at the FBI. But McCabe cautioned against empowering Patel, saying on CNN’s “The Source” that “no part of the FBI’s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI. And certainly not in the deputy director’s job.”
“It’s inconceivable to me that an outsider with no experience in the organization, no knowledge of the work and the scope of authority that’s involved there could perform adequately,” McCabe, who Trump fired from his post hours before his retirement in 2018, said.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, "it depends on what your definition of 'FBI's mission' is."
Patel was on Fox News over the weekend and explained why people like McCabe and others don't want him in an FBI leadership role (video via @tomselliot):
Kash Patel on Andy McCabe saying he’d be “dangerous” atop the FBI: He’s mad because “I was the lead investigator where I exposed the Russiagate crimes that Comey, McCabe, Strzok and Page and so many others committed.“ pic.twitter.com/zBsHIKTONJ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 25, 2024
If people like McCabe, Comey, Strzok and Page think Patel would be a "danger" at the FBI then sign us up!
Kash: “We exposed the Russiagate crimes… and they were taken up in the right course to the American people.”
— Unauthorized Narrative (@mgEyesOpen) November 25, 2024
Kash believes in sunlight. To a corrupt FBI official like McCabe, that *is* dangerous.
Most media interviews with McCabe say he's a former FBI employee, but they don't really like to explain why that is. Not that we're surprised.
Why would a so-called news show invite
— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) November 25, 2024
Andy McCabe ?
He soiled his reputation
He had no qualms lying under oath,
he'll have no problem lying on T.V.
The OIG Report Saying FBI’s Andrew McCabe Lied Under Oath knowingly provided false information in a verbal/written statement https://t.co/ItYb3D8AAh
And yet many in the media who call themselves "journalists" have no problem interviewing that person as a principled expert on all things FBI.
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