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Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, is expected to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Patel held on numerous national security functionsduring the first Trump administration, but he would be a new face at the FBI.
Patel regularly attacks a “deep state” which he blames for “weaponizing the government for its own political and personal agenda”.
He has said he would clean up FBI headquarters on his first day in office.
“I closed the Hoover FBI building on the first day and I would reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I would take the 7,000 employees who work in that building and send them all over America to go after criminals. Go be cops,” Patel said.
He has sparked concern among Democrats over his past comments about “government thugs,” writing a book of the same name that includes an appendix listing people he later said should be “held accountable.”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the panel, announced earlier this week that he would oppose Patel’s confirmation.
“Kash Patel does not have the experience, temperament or judgment to lead the FBI,” Durbin said in a statement after a 30-minute meeting with Patel.
“Mr. Patel’s political grievances make him a favorite of the MAGA world, but they have not prepared him to work day and night to protect us from violent crime, drug trafficking, terrorism and other threats. Mr. Patel is the wrong choice to lead the FBI.”
Durbin previously asked a trio of national security agencies that employed Patel during the first Trump administration to hand over information from their personnel files.
the lettersmade a series of allegations, including that Patel pushed to halt transition coordination with the incoming Biden administration, sought to declassify information that would be favorable to Trump, and identified himself as a handy figure for the man leading Trump’s efforts to thwart the transfer of power. after losing the 2020 election.
