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Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage Rescue
Breitbart ^ | 28 Jan 2025 | Kristina Wong

Posted on 01/29/2025 1:18:11 AM PST by Olog-hai

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday pushed an anonymous smear about Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee Kash Patel just days ahead of his confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Durbin, in a letter sent to Trump administration officials dated January 27, 2025, said he received “highly credible information” that Patel “broke protocol” regarding hostage rescues when he commented to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) “without authorization” about a successful hostage rescue during the first Trump administration in October 2020. […]

Durbin said his office received allegations that “Mr. Patel inserted himself inappropriately in a hostage recovery mission and violated these protocols” and that he “allegedly had no role in the planning, negotiations, or execution of this hostage recovery.”

Former Trump National Security Council Chief of Staff Alex Gray called the anonymous allegations against Patel “baseless.” …

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: durbin; fbi; littledick; littledickdurbin; patel; poloplayer; racistdickdurbin; tds; turbandurbin
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1 posted on 01/29/2025 1:18:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
If this is all Durbin's got, it should be smooth sailing for Patel.

2 posted on 01/29/2025 1:35:06 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Olog-hai

The United States has big problems with ethics and liars. The tells us gossip and false witness is not good, and yet...


3 posted on 01/29/2025 1:37:11 AM PST by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: exnavy

Sorry, the word.


4 posted on 01/29/2025 1:37:38 AM PST by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: Olog-hai

Dick Turdbin


5 posted on 01/29/2025 1:39:31 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Olog-hai

He lies so much, I’ll just assume this is another one.


6 posted on 01/29/2025 2:05:46 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: Olog-hai

Dock Durban cares about protocol?

We are so done with these creeps


7 posted on 01/29/2025 3:08:13 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Olog-hai

Kash Patel was a member of the Trump administration in 2020. What “protocols” did he violate if he wasn’t answerable to anyone outside the executive branch of the U.S. government?


8 posted on 01/29/2025 3:13:15 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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To: Olog-hai

If a Democrat ‘breaks protocol’, he’ll claim he did it for the good of the country, and the Left would cheer.


9 posted on 01/29/2025 3:26:10 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Olog-hai

then i would have to say that kash is a choir boy

if they couldnt come up with a sex smear

the protocol thing certainly sounds like desperation

confirm now


10 posted on 01/29/2025 3:44:42 AM PST by joshua c
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To: Olog-hai; Liz; SunkenCiv

https://freerepublic.com/tag/turbandurbin/index


11 posted on 01/29/2025 3:47:59 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I heard that when he was in kindergarten, Patel got caught licking the frosting off of a cupcake he had not intention of eating. Later in this 20’s, Patel was known to dispose of plastic recyclables in his regular trash bin.


12 posted on 01/29/2025 3:52:01 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Olog-hai

“Broke protocol”?! That’s all you got? Next up, Patel failed to return a library book


13 posted on 01/29/2025 3:52:26 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: Olog-hai

Did you know that Patel once used the office copier to copy a personal document?


14 posted on 01/29/2025 3:54:31 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: albie
Next up, Patel failed to return a library book

It gets worse.

When it finally did make it back, several of the pages were dog-eared.

15 posted on 01/29/2025 3:56:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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this is what desparation and fear smells like. That know its goin down now. Its all not so funny now.


16 posted on 01/29/2025 4:02:15 AM PST by basalt (he "legacy")
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To: Olog-hai

Dick is PURE EVIL!


17 posted on 01/29/2025 4:05:01 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Olog-hai

They don’t understand that nobody cares about what they think or say any more. Pathetic losers.


18 posted on 01/29/2025 4:14:42 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: Olog-hai

Dick Durbin, who went to the Senate floor comparing the treatment of detainees at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Nazis, Soviet gulags and Cambodia’s Pol Pot.


19 posted on 01/29/2025 4:34:21 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh the horror of it all! He BROKE PROTOCOL. What did he do? Did he wear a red tie to a black-tie event?


20 posted on 01/29/2025 4:50:17 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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