Kash Patel just picked up one endorsement he never expected
Donald Trump nominated Kash Patel to head the FBI.
This is a key plank in Donald Trump’s platform to drain the swamp.
And now Kash Patel just picked up one endorsement he never expected.
Enemy of the surveillance state
The FBI used illegal warrantless spying to target Donald Trump’s campaign.
Then FBI Director James Comey misled the FISA court using the hoax Steele dossier knowing full well it was unverified junk to win approval to spy on the Trump campaign via former foreign policy advisor Carter Page.
Now Donald Trump wants to put Kash Patel atop the bureau to carry out his reforms and end the weaponization of the government.
The prospect of FBI Director Kash Patel horrified liberal Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
Ignatius went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and complained about the FBI’s vast domestic spying powers coming under Patel’s purview.
“What’s of concern, when you think about the FBI director, the FBI director has extraordinary powers to conduct surveillance on American citizens. And those powers, to listen into phone calls & read emails, would be directed by somebody that has shown that he has a very political agenda,” Ignatius stated.
WaPo’s @IgnatiusPost on Kash Patel: “What’s of concern, when you think about the FBI director, the FBI director has extraordinary powers to conduct surveillance on American citizens. And those powers, to listen into phone calls & read emails, would be directed by somebody that… pic.twitter.com/UespDZQVMZ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 3, 2024
Ingnatius wasn’t making the point he thought he was.
If a government power is so vast and frightening that you are afraid of what will happen if your political enemy gets ahold of it then maybe this power shouldn’t exist in the first place.
Kash Patel proposes pro-constitution reforms
In a September interview on Sean Ryan’s podcast Patel addressed this very criticism.
“The FBI’s footprint has gotten so freakin’ big,” Patel lamented.
The FBI is now just as much of an intelligence gathering agency as a crime fighting force.
Patel thinks that mission creep needs to end.
Section 702 of the FISA bill – the provision that allowed the FBI to spy on Trump’s campaign came up for renewal in 2024.
Patel slammed Republicans for folding and agreeing to a two-year extension of this illegal warrantless wiretapping power grab.
“Because the budget of FISA was up this cycle, we demanded Congress fix it. And do you know what the majority in the House, where the Republicans did? They bent the knee. They (reauthorized) it,” Patel stated.
Patel called for “major, major reform.”
Donald Trump agrees.
And if the Senate confirms Patel there are other major changes on the way.
Patel told Ryan that the bureau is too DC-centric these days and that a good first step would be closing down the main headquarters and deploying the 7,000 employees that work there around the country to fight the crime epidemic that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris enabled.
“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state,’” Patel added. “Then, I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops — go be cops.”
The swamp hating Kash Patel is a badge of honor that he wears proudly.
Trump winning confirmation for Patel is step one in a larger fight to rein in the illegal spying a weaponized FBI used to target Trump and his supporters.
Patriot Pulse will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
