Posted on 09/14/2025 2:32:42 PM PDT by Bratch
September 14, 2025 | Sundance
Many people were thrilled with the nomination and eventual confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. However, with decades of researching the political weaponization of the FBI and against the known capabilities of the nominee, we were not part of the thrilled group.
The non-pretenders looked at the challenge, contrast the scope of work against the skillset of the person selected to confront the institutional corruption, and warned people there was more reason to be apprehensive than optimistic.
Do you remember us outlining how the various FBI field offices would be keeping Patel/Bongino tied up with busy work, and stuff to go on TV about.
That said, we don’t want him to fail, but Director Patel has walked himself into a gauntlet of consequence that will be difficult to exit given his lack of discernment – evidenced in the events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The people in control of FBI field operations (not Kash), set up their agency head by informing the boss a suspect was in custody.
The ever focused on public opinion, Director Kash Patel, then took to Twitter at 6:21 pm on September 10th to relay the news. According to media reports Patel was just about to eat dinner at a swanky New York City restaurant when he sent the text message.
We all watched it unfold.
After eating dinner at Rao’s, an embarrassed Kash Patel was then forced to retract his public statement, walking back his message that a suspect was in custody at 7:59 pm, a little over 1.5 hours later.
The FBI field operatives smiled. Egg applied as expected, it worked brilliantly.
Kash Patel couldn’t then turn to those who set him up with too much anger, because their defense was, “we were questioning a suspect, we didn’t tell you to go public with it – and as it turned out the suspect was cleared.”
It was a brilliant maneuver, likely intended to undermine his authority and position. It worked perfectly.
Did you see Kash Patel’s face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didn’t say a word at the microphone?
LIVE: Update on Charlie Kirk shooting
National media and DC political opposition now runs with the “incompetent” narrative, albeit rightly deserved but for other bigger matters, and the leadership structure of the FBI is weakened.
The institutional elements in control pulled off a great hit. Well played FBI bad guys. Well played.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Director Patel will shift his position and recognize the scale of opposition inside the institution he keeps praising. [Although I doubt his ego will allow him to reset.]
Kash Patel has essentially neutered himself by falling prey to the most transparently obvious ploy of the intel operatives within the institution.
Now, the media has a narrative to enhance, and Director Patel is scheduled to be questioned in the Senate later this week. What comes next will be entirely the result of his own self harm.
Those Machiavellian FBI guys are cruel.
Every adverse operative within the FBI will be back channeling specific investigative information to the Democrat inquisitors in advance, so questions can be specifically formatted.
Whether he can see it or not, FBI Director Kash Patel is being set up by his own agency in collaboration with the Senate guards in DC.
Unfortunately, Kash Patel is now in a defensive mode trying to promote his image over the past 24-hours by retweeting positive articles about him as written by the sources he uses to deliver information, John Solomon (Tick-Tock) and Brooke Singman (Fox).
It’s all quite transparent, and simultaneously a hot mess.
“The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.”
I’m not sure if President Trump can see it unfolding, or if President Trump is simply trying to support his FBI director and simultaneously avoid collateral embarrassment. Either way, given the fortunate situation where the father of the assassin secured his son and turned him into police, President Trump is supporting the successful outcome.
There is a sense of familiarity, a feeling similar to NSA Director Mike Waltz, about it:
Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization. Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.
Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political. We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.
These are not disputed realities.
The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of DC.
Tangentially related:
(1) What’s the status of the DC pipe bomber case?
And
(2) are the 40 FBI agents who worked on the Mueller investigation, still employed?
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he’s a lawyer, apparently not a leader
“””he’s a lawyer, apparently not a leader”””
What is the typical amount of time required to clean up and turnaround a massive bureaucracy like the FBI?
I think he’s a disappointment. I wanted someone to come in and fire about 20% of the FBI. As a start. Maybe more after that. I don’t get the sense that Kash has cleaned house in any kind of serious way.
To be fair, the guy always looks like he's completely unaware of what's going on. He's a very low-IQ individual.
Mark Sundance Bradman is full of... himself, as always.
Sure seems so.
What other institutions get to exist after they imprison and torture 1,600 innocent Americans? These commie pigs all need to be fired and thousands of them belong in prison. There is no reforming that shithole. Even Russia got rid of the KGB after the USSR.
I think we wanted tough guys and we got Kash and Bondi. We are far enough in now and this is kind of disappointing.
I think they are good people but not hard enough to work swamp removal detail.
There is no restoring the damage done to these institutions. You have to burn them down and start all over.
“””Did you see Kash Patel’s face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didn’t say a word at the microphone?”””””
Did your friends at msnbc not show the video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B221cDcjV-o&list=RDNSB221cDcjV-o&start_radio=1
Kash needs to purge the top layer of the FBI much deeper.
that I understand — it’s a massive undertaking, and perhaps he’ll administer that very well, but leading in the context involving public engagement has been somewhat clumsy. Don’t get me wrong, I have much respect for him.
And still waiting to hear who Ray Epps is, how many undercover FBI agents were involved in J6, the Mar a Lago raid, the raids on private homes in conjunction with J6, why no grand jury has been seated on the Ashli Babbit murder and more. I said before the election that if Trump was elected, he should have disbanded the FBI and started over. He could still do that but there is no chance of it happening.
if everyone here feels qualified for the job they should take over and show us the correct way to handle the situation...
The Secret Service still has a bunch of the same people that bungles Butler PA a year ago.
What a stupid article.
Patel was honest and direct. He passed on information to the public as he received it.
More importantly, he ensured that the photo of the suspect was released - and that resulted in his father turning in the suspect.
A good deal of time. It takes time to hire new agents .
Sundance is an idiot
“””The Secret Service still has a bunch of the same people that bungles Butler PA a year ago.”””
As long as they are assigned to obummer and biden.....
You are correct.
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