Sounds like good cop, bad cop sort of thing.
That’s fine...Patel is providing a watchful eye...protective not vindictive.
This worm looks DEI. Replace him with someone who understands whay Trump is trying to do.
a very gay thread
Would/will be fascinating to learn whether Kash got blessings from Trump for his email before sending it out. By immediately reassigning 4% of his workforce to Alabama or otherwise across the country, Patel didn’t seem to be wasting time on addressing probably the trickiest staff any cabinet member has.
Beginning of the end of Musk’s role. Many of the other heads of departments will advise their staffs similarly.
and i trust Musk to put in radically effective ‘procedures’ for hiring/firing and getting the best out of his employees.
if Patel is smart, he’ll get to work adapting ‘FBI procedures’ to get Musk (and the President) what he needs immediately. that will work to his benefit as well.
This will be interesting. I am with Patel on this one.
In the past times I have worked in organizations that required people to defend their jobs I thought it was offensive madness. Management should know what people do and if they don’t they should figure it out of eliminate the position instead of playing cat and mouse games. It is cruel idiocy to do such a thing. If a manager can’t tell what his employees are doing them telling him isn’t going to improve anything. What do they expect them to say? “I’ve done very little on my job and don’t deserve to have it. My position should be eliminated.”
In the past I simply ignored such orders and said nothing.
Each and every position should be covered by a job description, reporting location, current compensation, performance review process etc. It is grounds for dismissal and most other personnel management operations.
When it came to time sheets and telling what you did last week I simply filled it in. “Performing orders as directed.” I got very little guff. Time sheets were necessary for joint interest billing. It should have instead been covered by the standard JIB rates agreed to in the Joint Operating Agreement. If people knew their butts from a hole in the ground they should have left it at that.
Could be Kash is doing this to assert he doesn’t work for Musk, cleaning up fbi is his deal.
Its gonna get figured out ok between Trump, Patel and Musk. They all,want the same thing, so it will get figured out and they will all keep on going.
Relevant questions that aren't answered in the article that I'd like to know:
Those are all questions I'd like to see answers to, and I'm not so sure I'm comfortable having them answered by the Daily Mail. I'd like someone with some authoritative leadership within the Trump Administration to provide an official answer.
End of the day, Kash is the FBI Director and it makes sense for him to manage the FBI under his leadership. He knows where the bodies are buried, and I figure he also knows who are the problem individuals. I do think it's worth working with Elon and DOGE on some of that, but at the end of the day, President Trump is the president. It's ultimately his call to make, since he's the Boss.
I just think this is the Daily Mail trying to pull some lefty shenanigans. They're all scared of Kash and Elon. Me, you, God and everybody else knows it. And if they can pit them against each other and put them in a position where Trump is pressured to dismiss either or both, so much the better for the left. It takes two of their biggest "boogy men" out of the picture.
Musk needs to think his wording through a bit more carefully. He might get 5 REAL Bullets from those loonies.
Wasn’t Patel going through the confirmation process last week? He wouldn’t have anything to report about his FBI work anyway.
This is not good. I don’t doubt Patel’s commitment to MAGA and probably he wants to show that he stand for his agents. However, it can be done more smoothly and he has to show that FBI is open to DoGE.
Otherwise, he creates bad precedent and opens the door for other agency whose leadership is not yet 100% with Trump to say, “I am with Patel. I don’t.wanr my agency to be reviewed by DoGE!”
“What did you do last week” is a dumb question to ask.
In the military, my job varied WILDLY from one week to the next. I deployed up to 6 months a year for a 10 year period - worked 80+ hours a week deployed. When home, I did paperwork-only some weeks. Others might have involved flying, or local exercises, or even being on leave. I averaged a 60 hour week at home, but that could drop below 30 sometimes and hit 80. There were weeks where I was mostly at a desk and others where I never saw a desk.
When I worked for the Forest Service (pre-military), the time of year and weather had a huge impact - from building fences to vegetation surveys to repairing campgrounds to clearcutting timber.
Elon Musk is not perfect and his team doesn’t seem to understand that not all people work in offices at computers.
State did the same thing about the same email. This isn’t some pissing contest between just Patel and Musk. Media is trying to create drama.
This is exactly what I expected from Kash Patel and why I consider him the best Trump pick of all of them. He’s going to be in charge, he’s going to be tough but fair and he’s going to be by the book right down the line.
Patel will be the best FBI Director in history.
There is a double standard here. If the person in charge works for Trump then they can overrule Musk. But it they are not a Trump pick then they cannot. Kash has no more power to override Musk than any of the other departments. In the end it all comes down to what Trump wants. He will chose who he wants to back off.
I remember Kash Patel talking about the FBI building with 7,000+ people in it. Seven thousand that do not leave their office much. Patel’s question was: “What are they doing in there about the crimes in [FILL IN THE BLANK]?”
I imagine if some of the first transfers to other FBI offices around the country do not leave their new office, they will leave with their last paycheck.
PS - Remember, President Trump is in charge.
REMINDER for Patel: The border wall is supposed to be at the borders of the USA . . . NOT around SWAMP agencies.
In the overall scheme of things,
until DODGE has had the chance
to run it’s course, these two
entities need to coordinate Trumps
agenda. This type of infighting
only adds fuel to the Dems
objections of the entire process.
I can fully understand Kesh’s
eagerness to try and straighten
out an organization that has been
corrupt for decades.