Posted on 09/13/2025 7:12:23 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The backlash against FBI Director Kash Patel over the bungled search for Charlie Kirk's assassin has intensified as it emerged he went on an expletive-laden rant against his staff over the failures.
Patel came under fresh fire after it emerged that suspect Tyler Robinson had finally been arrested for the alleged murder of Kirk, 31, after being turned in by his own family.
Robinson's arrest Thursday night came after a 33-hour manhunt in which two other men were wrongfully detained.
The mix-up led Patel to incorrectly announce that investigators had someone in custody on Wednesday before he was forced to walk back his statements. It later emerged that he had prioritized dining at a swanky NYC restaurant during the most vital hours of the manhunt.
Robinson, 22, was only arrested after his father reportedly recognized him in surveillance footage.
Fox News's Laura Ingraham branded the calamitous search 'unreal'.
The blunder led Patel to instigate a blistering conference call with over 200 FBI personnel Thursday morning, warning his agents that he would no longer tolerate any more 'Mickey Mouse operations,' according to The New York Times.
On Saturday afternoon it appeared Patel was feeling the heat and tweeted how authorities were able to capture the alleged shooter within 33 hours of the incident with his 'bold strategy' praised.
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Steve Bannon, a former Donald Trump Administration advisor, told The Hill that Patel's performance at the press conference was lacking.
'I don't know why Kash flew out there, you know, thousands of miles, to give us: "Hey, working partnerships and our great partnership in Utah." Okay, got that.'
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These articles are insane. Does anyone read this bs and think Patel did anything wrong?
Tempest in a teapot.
Stay focused.
Why do I have no inclination to go after Kash Patel?
Is it because I believe he’s trying his best, and that we should be focusing on finding everyone involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination?
Steve Bannon is a jackass.
And I guess Laura Ingram should have handled the investigation.
Looks like a number of people who don’t do anything, also don’t like Kash Patel.
See my post earlier that the local FBI office withheld sharing info with Kash for 12 hours (!!) as to the identity of the suspect.
It’s like Sessions. No contorl over his agency.
He can’t just ‘clean house’ because of federal employee unions.
I lost interest when Bannon was mentioned.
It’s been a long time since I paid any attention to him.
Let’s keep our eye on the ball. Let’s find out everything we can about the shooter, who helped him, how deep the sedition goes, such as the FBI office delaying the photos to Patel for 12 hours, let’s handle that, and not swing at pitches in the dirt from leftist media.
The Deep State is thrilled with him.
I think he was fine. Apparently the Utah field office constantly fed him the wrong information. How would he deal with that? I feel bad for him.
The FBI is a government agency. The FBI agents are government employees. That means they are as competent and motivated as your average DMV clerk.
Patel was the one who ordered the release of the pictures - that resulted in the father identifying his son and turning him in.
It is exceedingly difficult to call this manhunt bungled.
It has been resolved exceptionally quickly.
Yes.
“Hours after the killing, Patel took to X to announce that the ‘subject’ in Kirk’s murder was finally ‘in custody.’
“In a post shared at 6:21pm, the director wrote: ‘Thank you to the local and state authorities in Utah for your partnership with the FBI.’
“But just over an hour later - at 7:59pm - Patel walked back his earlier statement, announcing that the subject ‘has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement.’ “
Give the loudmouth Patel haters just a few more minutes and they’ll regale you with their worthless racist pearl clutching.
There’s a lot of people right here on FR that think they should be running the investigation.
Perhaps that’s why he went there. One of those behind the scene moments where he says I’m here to chew gum and kick a-s…and I’m all out of bubble gum?
He can’t just ‘clean house’ because of federal employee unions.
I thought they would have some due process, but it is very little.
Ay, but they printed some truth. They just buried it.
God Bless Patel for firing this guy!
“But just weeks earlier, Patel had dismissed the head of the Salt Lake City FBI field office for reasons that remain unclear.”
Any other nuggets hidden in the truth?
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