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?
All these alleged issues amount to approximately nothing.
The enemy within indeed.
It didn’t take this group long to start their Democrat attacks on Kash !
What a shameful article.
It looks like ‘swanky’ is the new democrat hit term.
The FBI had agents in the field. Patel went and had dinner with- and when he went to go eat, he had been assured they had a suspect.
We need to know who they arrested and why !
The suspect is smart. How many red herring did he setup?
Have we got the actual gun, or did they pull a swap?
Get to interviewing a lot more people and get to the bottom of this conspiracy !
Say what? You mean that even eating at a swanky restaurant is just fine?
“”””Say what? You mean that even eating at a swanky restaurant is just fine? “”””
I occasionally watch msnbc for the comedy. One night they had breaking news/ scandal thing. They had proof Patel was seen in a New York city restaurant the night of the shooting. Now that is some great journalism. The head of the FBI eating at a restaurant is certainly worthy of a Pulitzer
One day. Just fire everyone.
Do I think Kash was played by Deep Staters? Yes, without question.
Do I think this article is part of the bag of tricks being used by the Deep State to twist the knife? Darn straight. If it weren’t, they’d spend more ink focused on how to root out the corruption at the FBI than attacking Kash. That’s how you know it’s a “Head Fake Article”.
“...questioned in the Senate later this week...”
Questioned about what? After four years of that incompetent Puppet Biden, Who the hell are those filthy assholes to question anyone about anything, let alone Patel.
I hope you’re joking. He can eat at any restaurant he wants.
They don’t question anyone, all they do is make speeches.
“””I hope you’re joking. He can eat at any restaurant he wants.””””
They expect him to use coupons and eat at Arby’s.
Sundance can shove it up his arse. Not a huge Patel fan myself but the idiocy from “the last refuge” can sometimes be world class
Not really, just fire all top management and field office managers. Then weed out the recent hires.
we talk about the “shadow government “ that is always in charge whenever new “leaders” get elected/appointed: I don’t know if the guy in the white hat will ever ride into town and throw out the bums. You certainly can’t vote the bums out. I think the only solution would be to burn the whole system down or starve it of cash and stop paying taxes en masse and allow it to crumble. Then rebuild. But i don’t think this generation of gamers/trans/furries has the stomach
Did they ever found out who planted the pipe bombs on J6? Is that even still an open investigation?
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.
I called this even before Trump was sworn in on Jan.20, 2025 that he will be stopped from fulfilling his term without being thwarted. His first term he was sabotaged by some of his own insiders, and the left, and this time it's all the district court judges and the left. Disbanding the FBI would be a pipe dream, I'm still wondering how many illegals he will be able to deport without some kind of Supreme Court decision to end this madness. Is there a site to get a current number of illegals deported that updates daily? From searching on DuckDuckGo it seems 300,000 -350,000 were deported (from Jan.20,2025-August 2025) according to an August article from American Renaissance. To reach the 20 million illegals to be deported by the end of his term there needs to be 416,000 deportations EVERY month.
kinda like the people that play around on free republic all day every day 24 hours a day 365 days a year...
“just fire all top management and field office managers. Then weed out the recent hires.”
Excellent approach.
In corporate turnarounds there is one more step.
Find the worst field office and close it—and do not allow anyone who worked there to transfer anywhere else.
The rest will get the message.
Ah, yeah.
Everybody’s a critic these days.
Very well said and I completely agree.
More than the 6 or so months he has been in the role.
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