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.
Downloaded? Heck, they had the raw files.
Without
I wonder if there was a trade of Epstein for Hillary.
“What is your hope for a solution to the mess this country is in?”
In your mind only.....
Yup—there are many qualified people who are junkyard dogs.
Some of us around here want us to settle for well trained golden retrievers.
We get what we settle for....
If we accept nothing we get nothing.
Your hope is that Bondi’s replacement will file charges and get convictions from a DC jury?
And you’re angry at me for giving people false hope?
Am I hearing you correctly?
Goodies,
Junk Yard dogs and alot of
Yappie Chihuahua’s !
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Thing is ‘DS’ is a Vicious Hydra and
To destroy it Properly will take
Well Built Criminal Cases.
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Many short sighted folks not having a clue
Goldies,
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I love Goldies !
You're a typical political puritan who can't think outside your own little world of perfection.
Give it up dude, you're becoming a negative nanny
You know you have no answer to that so just shut up, you're becoming a broken record.......Sheesh!
I am very proud of this administration and the many outstanding cabinet members who have been slashing bureaucracy, getting rid of insane regulations and firing federal employees by the thousands.
They act—and then they talk.
It is not my fault that we have one key department where that has not happened.
I know exactly what I want:
—5,000 FBI agents who participated in the J6 abominations should be fired
—Public officials who are impeding enforcement of the immigration statutes should be indicted
That is just two quick items.
Either Bondi and Kash do it or they do not.
If they do it I will be their biggest cheerleader.
If they do not I will be their harshest critic.
I'll ask you again. Since you constantly criticize them, ad nauseum, who do you want in their positions and how do you know they would handle the job differently?
You can't answer the question, you keep deflecting the question in another direction. So stop it with your frickin' nonsense.........You're a broken record.....Sheesh!
I am not a recruiter for top flight lawyers.
But I want Saul like talent—junk yard dogs.
“Since you constantly criticize them, ad nauseum, who do you want in their positions and how do you know they would handle the job differently”
All that to avoid addressing the elephant in the room which is that Bondi is incompetent (see how she handled the Epstein files???) and is sleeping at the desk. How pathetic!
No, I asked the question to the hater knowing full well he wouldn't have an answer.
I find it disturbing that there are numerous idiots on this site criticizing every one of Trump's appointees, with no recommendations of their own, and now you, running shotgun for your homie.......
I find it not surprising that most of the ignorant comments calling for the immediate arrests and trials of whomevers are coming from the new additions to this site in the past ten years......
The judicial system doesn't work that way bro........
Pass it on to your homeboy........
“I find it disturbing that there are numerous idiots on this site criticizing every one of Trump’s appointees”
“Numerous idiots”, you said??? Name one name, please? Just one.
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