Should Kash Patel Fix the FBI by ‘Sledgehammer’ or by ‘Scalpel’? Bureau Veterans Have Some Ideas
Several retired FBI officials bemoan an ‘MBA culture’ at a bureau that under its most recent three directors has become too corporate, too ideologically astray, and is overrun with ‘jackassery’.
Kash Patel, federal public defender, erstwhile chief of staff to the secretary of defense, emphatic critic of the “Deep State,” and the Roald Dahl of Donald Trump-themed kids’ books, is officially the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mr. Patel was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday by a narrow vote of 51-49, overcoming fierce Democratic opposition due in large part to his fierce loyalty to the president and vocal opposition to the unsuccessful probes by the FBI into allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
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