Posted on 05/19/2025 8:19:35 AM PDT by Signalman
FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday night that a “wave of transparency” is coming to his agency, accusing the FBI of running cover for Hillary Clinton for nearly a decade — but that it’s all finally coming to an end.
Sitting alongside FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino for a Fox News interview on “Sunday Morning Futures,” Patel explained how the Bureau is now heading down a long road toward rebuilding trust with the public after years under the microscope for its activities related to powerful Democratic politicians, theories about J6 involvement, and its infamous investigations into President Donald Trump.
But it was Patel’s discovery of how the FBI participated in manufacturing Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into Trump’s so-called collusion with Russia, that drove home the point for him that the government was always “weaponized” against Clinton’s enemies.
“You asked in the beginning how the FBI was weaponized,” he said to host Maria Bartiromo. “Well, the FBI hijacked the constitutional responsibility of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General, and James Comey and others specifically decided what cases to prosecute and not prosecute. Don’t believe me? Go to the videotape in the Hillary Clinton investigation.”
“We don’t decide prosecutions, and neither does any agent or intel analyst. We have great partners under Attorney General [Pam] Bondi. We work with them and discuss the matter with them, but the prosecutorial decision is with them,” he said.
In the near future, Patel added, the FBI will be publicly detailing the lengths that former agents went to perpetuate the baseless allegation that President Trump colluded with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election.
“That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look,” Patel said.
“It’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency… Just give us about a week or two.”
Patel and Bongino’s wide-ranging interview with Fox News centered on reforms taking place at the Bureau as well as their preparations to release the final batch of documents related to the 2019 death of Jeffrey Epstein.
Cutting remarks by Patel were reserved for his own agency, which he accused of “intentionally failing the American public” by orchestrating the “biggest D.C. deception game” ever played.
Under the leadership of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok, trust in the FBI fell to an all-time low, Patel asserted, and it will take years to build that brand back up.
“They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was, and it will be again very soon,” Patel declared while also suggesting that former leaders abused taxpayer dollars by hiding evidence from the courts.
“That’s what broke the FBI. And then, when they were caught, they lied about it… and [few media personalities] were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago, and we’re still talking about it today because Congress is working rigorously with us [and] the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard, and they’re being sent there un-redacted so we can have full accountability.”
“That’s how you restore the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI,” Patel said.
The first thing Patel needs to do in an effort to “restore trust” is fire the 5,000 FBI agents who “were just following orders” on the J6 persecutions.
With that one step he would gain credibility and respect both within the agency and with the public.
Failure to do it will cost him dearly.
And then they said that Epstein killed himself.
Do better fellas, I'm not there yet.
Okay, if so, as most of us had presumed it was even before Pork Belly Future insider knowledge and File-Gate, if so, ‘therefore ...what?
What will be done about it, or at very least, what will be attempted?
While they hide Epstein’s murder.
If they bring out Seth Rich’s case, really investigate 2020, and expose J6 for what it was, I might forgive them.
Might.
And they deny Epstein killed himself. The cover up is rael, my friends.
Do something - anything - other than blather about how serious they are about fixing things with inactivity. Just because they both talked a big game for a long time doesn’t mean it was real any more than the likes of Trey Gowdy were. Put up or shut up.
anybody remember the infamous “FBI FILES”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy
And that’s the key word: MIGHT.
It’s very very real.
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How about a wave of accountability and consequences?
Yup—right now they are stuck in Hannity territory—99.9% of FBI agents should be left alone...
Wake me when the frog marching comes.
How About....
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We let Them Do Their Job?
You can’t restore trust without restoring accountability.
Just exposing people is largely a transitory thing and isn’t enough to produce meaningful long term changes.
The people who violated our laws and destroyed the peoples’ confidence in their respective agencies need to pay a price and serve as an example of accountability. Only then will others take heed and start honoring the trust placed in them instead of abusing it.
Actions are needed, not more words.
When they said that about Epstein- And just believe us. Then I lost all trust that anything is really going to change. Bongino was being forced to say that. You could hear it in his voice.
Yeah, she’ll be indicted any day now.
/sarc
Do you really think Bongino left a multi-million $ self-made business to go work for the deep state at a tiny fraction of his income? We don’t know how much these guys have uncovered in just 2 months but Patel and Bongino have a lot of capital and credibility. We don’t yet know how their efforts may have pushed Comey into doing that stupid 86 47.
We do know they were very fast at catching the crazy trannys that have been attacking Tesla dealers not to mention the raids on the criminal illegals. Just two months in I would say we’ve got the best guys turning the ship around.
“Yup—right now they are stuck in Hannity territory”
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How true. Hannity doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s never worked inside a large federal agency. If he had he would know that informal networks of people exist and that there aren’t many secrets kept from staff. The rumor mill is very powerful and many employees at low levels know the dirt about what’s going on in their agencies. In that sense their silence is complicity.
Who ended up dancing around, smoking a (seasoned) cigar in the end in celebration of a perfectly executed plan?
Democrats have a built-in force field(media/academia/judicial)...their corruption doesn't count.
IF someone (dem) gets purged, it's because the higher-ups WANT them purged...because they don't bring enough to..."the cause" (get rich on America's moral/financial destruction).
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