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Kash Patel, onetime FBI target, now on track to run the FBI
Washington exaimner ^ | 12/20/24 | Byron York

Posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:00 AM PST by CFW

KASH PATEL, ONETIME FBI TARGET, NOW ON TRACK TO RUN THE FBI. Not long ago, a left-wing journalist argued that when Republicans describe Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI director as a way to “clean out” the FBI and “restore its integrity,” they are in fact creating “cover to go along with Trump’s scheme to unleash the FBI on enemies.”

It’s a common criticism in anti-Trump circles. But it raises a question. Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after? If one wants to discuss the prospect of a new director unleashing the FBI on enemies, shouldn’t he grapple with the reality of years of bureau leadership unleashing the FBI on enemies?

During the Trump years, FBI directors and other top law enforcement and intelligence officials did the following:

1) Opened investigations on presidential candidates.

2) Deployed undercover agents and confidential sources to spy on a candidate’s advisers.

3) Hired a campaign opposition researcher under the guise of intelligence gathering.

4) Presented false opposition research to a court as a basis for wiretapping a candidate’s adviser.

5) Used false opposition research to brief the president of the United States.

6) Ambushed the president-elect with false opposition research.

7) Sought to include false opposition research in intelligence community products.

8) Ambushed the national security adviser with wiretap information on the pretense of a Logan Act violation.

9) Misled/stonewalled Congress on the investigation of the president.

10) Misled the president about the investigation targeting him.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corruption; dojfbi; kashpatel; trump
The list of crimes the FBI and DOJ have committed over the past few years should have every voter up in arms. Yet Democrats and the media have cheered them on every step of the way.

Now they pretend to be concerned over a "politicized" FBI? Spare me the fake outrage.

1 posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:00 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

America’s STASI should be shut down and dismantled.

It’s time to start over. The necessary functions it performs can easily be re-created elsewhere

But leaving the bureaucracy, structure and continuity of the present management intact is VERY dangerous for the Republic - not to mention any future conservatives around after Trump is gone.


2 posted on 12/22/2024 8:21:18 AM PST by PGR88
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There shouldn’t be an FBI at all


3 posted on 12/22/2024 8:22:27 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Spare me the fake outrage.

They lost their narrative and they're desperately trying to create a new one.

4 posted on 12/22/2024 8:23:17 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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I’m rooting for some payback.


5 posted on 12/22/2024 8:24:51 AM PST by ryderann
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To: CFW

BTTT


6 posted on 12/22/2024 8:25:41 AM PST by nopardons
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“Where were these people in 2017, 2018, and after?”

They CORNERED Trump in 2017 and prevented him from removing the scum in charge. The BIGGER question is where was Biden’s people from 2021 to now? Oh yeah, they were using the FBI as their Brownshirts.


7 posted on 12/22/2024 8:27:02 AM PST by BobL
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Trump supporters have been jailed and murdered by various factions of the Federal Government, FBI, ATF and others federal officials being used as a weapon against Republicans. Ioday these Commie lookalike Democrats are crying foul when the tables are being turned against them. Their cry is :you can’t do to us what we did to you. We now have thousands of political prisoners behind bars, and famalies broken up by federal thugs murdering family members and an out of control federal bureaucracy that answeres to no one.


8 posted on 12/22/2024 8:35:29 AM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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America’s STASI should be shut down and dismantled.

It’s time to start over. The necessary functions it performs can easily be re-created elsewhere>>> There isn’t much that should be left remaining. The whole government needs to reboot. Move them to Nome, AK, They get a desk, phone, no internet, cot in a quonset hut. see how important they job is when that is all you have.


9 posted on 12/22/2024 8:44:27 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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Forgot spying on journalists.
Calling moms and dads in school board meetings terrorists.
Arresting prolife ministers at 6 am


10 posted on 12/22/2024 8:47:46 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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Uninstalling Joe Biden Please be patient, your country will be restored soon...
11 posted on 12/22/2024 8:47:49 AM PST by CFW
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I’m ready for some pay-back as well. Which is also known as “justice”.


Closing paragraph of the article.

“The FBI perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax, tried to cover it up, and spied on Kash and others who investigated their malfeasance,” Nunes told me in a text exchange. “The FBI are experts in avoiding accountability by over-classifying information, stonewalling Congress, and running information warfare operations against their constitutionally-mandated overseers. Their entire culture needs to be upended, and Kash has the guts to do it.”


12 posted on 12/22/2024 8:51:47 AM PST by CFW
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First order of business, ID all agents involved from top to bottom in the Trump and Kash created crimes and transfer all of them, right up to the assistant director level to Butte Montana office. Set up tents if needed. 100% guarantee 99% do not go. When they retire, make certain their security clearances are pulled. Any who retire and move off into some cushy post with a company, hone in on the company with tax audits and compliance with any fed regs because they are in on the scams. Let the retirees be your spotters.


13 posted on 12/22/2024 9:15:36 AM PST by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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Re: Kash Patel -

•••• I hope he Kashtrates the FBI! ••••


14 posted on 12/22/2024 9:55:18 AM PST by jigsaw (May God Bless America's Service Members.)
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Patel was not ‘a target’ he was ‘ILLEGALLY a target’.


15 posted on 12/22/2024 10:33:30 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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They said it was all in defense of “their” democracy.
16 posted on 12/22/2024 10:39:10 AM PST by oldbrowser ( Democracy = "of the people, for the people, by the people")
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