Posted on 01/03/2025 6:41:05 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, has “nightmare views” that will “close the part of the FBI that helps protect us” against foreign terrorism.
Whitehouse said, “Remember the history of all of this. We, for a long time as Americans, have made the determination that we did not want the CIA and other American intelligence agencies operating within the United States against Americans. And the FBI had a criminal law enforcement responsibility, and it was focused on terrorism primarily as a criminal act.”
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“...that word, ‘protection’ does not mean what you think it means” - Inigo Montoya
The REAL threat to America is in Melania Trump’s underwear drawer. FBI agents had to dig deep in there when they raided Mar-A-Lago.
The FBI is nothing but street muscle for the Democrat Party.
It’s an organized crime syndicate.
I expect it's not a definition I would agree with.
The FBI was always a politicized rogue agency back in the alleged good old days of Hoover. Except Hoover was a bipartisan blackmailer.
Don't "reform" the FBI. Get rid of it. Federal marshals and T-men should be enough for federal law enforcement.
Shiff?
Bump
#1 grade Lying sack of crap, deluxe.
Whitehorse IS A LEFT WING CLOWN, CLOWN !!!
At least Trump won’t have to worry about his home getting raided again good deal.
Not us, but them. AKA the Democrat party.
So yes the FIB has been doing a fantastic job against the Democrats opponents aka “domestic terrorists”
2 in a day?
How about 3 ?
Hundreds March for ‘Intifada’ in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas (Jan 3, 2025)
I like that one! ANd it’s very true.
This is insanity speaking. The fbi is good ONLY for monitoring Catholics who like Latin and moms who object to their kids being bum-rushed into taking puberty blockers.
As for protecting us from terror, the events of the past week or so speak for themselves.
to protect a civilized western society against Arab terrorists, send them all home!
At the very least, the FBI should be relocated AWAY from the nation’s capital, say like St. Louis, Missouri, a near-central geographical location, for reasonably balanced access to the American Public they are supposed to protect, not only the Deep State Democrats and RINOs that are a protected species in the Washington, DC, region.
Really sad and ironic that WASPs from New England have devolved into self hating, pathological, America hating fools. Whitehouse is the prototypical example. They are squandering and destroying the legacy and accomplishments of their founder forefathers.

Well said. Schiff is a nasty fey rodent whereas Whitehouse is a white-shoe scion of Yale and the CIA. Both are inveterate ideologues and liars.
He said foreign terrorism. If the actors are American citizens, then it doesn’t count.
With DHS opening borders allowing anyone and everyone into the county and shipping them to all our cities, how can we pretend the FBI is protecting us from terrorism?
hee hee hee
Yep
Knowing a little about Kash Patel, Obozo might want to watch our for him.
“The FBI protecting us against foreign terrorism”, the rationale for the Patriot Act, has been turned on its head (as was inevitable), and has been turned into a modern Alien and Sedition Act for use against anyone who becomes a political opponent dangerous to the people in power.
Appointing someone who won’t use the Patriot Act this way (like Kash Patel) doesn’t solve the problem, because the pending Administration will not always be in office.
The Patriot Act should be repealed, all administrative agencies and structures created under it should be dissolved, the borders should be closed and any non-vetted visa holders (and, obviously, anyone present inside the country without a valid visa or work permit) should be expelled.
The term “domestic violent extremist” should be eliminated from law enforcement vocabulary. This idea of a person expressing politcal views protected by the First Amendment as an “extremist” is subjective and beyond the scope of any legitimate law enforcement.
“...has “nightmare views” that will “close the part of the FBI that helps protect us”
This guy is as full of it as a Christmas goose. The FBI is not going to shut down and not do their job. There are contingencies in place to continue the job with everyone in place and his slot covered. I guess the libs feel anything they try to throw at the wall can stick no matter how stupid it is.
wy69
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