TIME wrote an excellent piece on Kash Patel excluding the last few paragraphs.
Time magazine wrote what appeared to be a glowing report on Kash Patel. It described his story and work with President Trump in uncovering the Russia collusion sham. This effort allowed Patel to learn much about the FBI and its corrupt leadership.
Patel discussed this in the video below.
TIME discussed Patel’s efforts exposing spygate/Russiagate but then ended with the following.
After the report came out Nunes made good on his promise and Patel was hired at Trump’s National Security Council, eventually rising to his dream job as senior director for counterterrorism. Patel wrote in his book that he barely remembers his first meetings with Trump in the Oval Office because he was “starstruck” but that “soon I had an extraordinary relationship with the president far beyond what would be expected.” The senior official recalls that Patel developed a reputation for going around the usual chain of command at the White House because he had developed “a direct line” to Trump.
That direct line may be the point for Trump. If Patel is confirmed by the Senate, the man who wrote an entire book about his concerns about political interference at the FBI could end up ushering in a new era of politically-motivated revenge. Trump has threatened to use the Department of Justice to prosecute his political adversaries. Patel wants to fire the top ranks of the FBI and has proposed shuttering FBI headquarters and moving it outside Washington. He has said he would “come after” reporters.
Patel’s confirmation is not a done deal. First, the current FBI director, Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed in 2017, still has nearly three years in his 10 year term, and would have to resign or be fired for Patel to take the job.
And there’s skepticism in the Senate over the 44-year-old Patel taking control of 10,000 special agents at the FBI with sweeping responsibility to protect the public from terrorism, organized crime, political corruption, and the threat posed by foreign adversaries like China. Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote in his memoir that Patel had endangered a SEAL Team Six operation to rescue an American held hostage in Nigeria by making up an approval from the Nigerian government before it had been granted. When Trump wanted to place Patel as deputy FBI director during his first term, then-Attorney General Bill Barr said “over my dead body.” Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine says she wants to see him in a public hearing before making a decision—and review Patel’s FBI background check.