Bu içerik, Donald Trump’ın FBI direktörü olarak Kashyap “Kash” Patel’i atadığı ve federal yasal yürütme kurumunu, uzun süredir yolsuz olarak eleştirdiği bir sadık ve “derin devlet” eleştirmeni olarak yönetmek için aday gösterdiği konusunda bilgi vermektedir. Patel’in FBI liderliğinin kovulmasını savunarak federal yasal yürütmenin “yola getirilmesi” için bir kampanya başlattıktan sonra Trump çevrelerinde tanınmış bir isim haline geldiği belirtilmektedir. Eğer onaylanırsa, Patel, Trump’ın 2017’de atadığı FBI direktörü Christopher Wray’in yerine geçecek ve Trump’ın Washington’un bürokratik aşırılığını reform isteğinde sadık bir temsilci olacaktır. Patel ayrıca, 2023 tarihli “Government Gangsters” adlı kitabında, hükümet çalışanlarını devlet başkanının ajandasını zayıflatanları kovmayı savunduğu ve Beyaz Saray’ı geri almanın bir “planını” sunduğu belirtilmektedir. Trump, Patel’in derin devleti yenmek için önerdiği reformlar arasında FBI genel merkezinin Washington’dan taşınması ve genel danışmanlık bürosunun azaltılması gibi adımların bulunduğunu vurgulamaktadır.
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Donald Trump has tapped Kashyap “Kash” Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist and “deep state” critic to lead the federal law enforcement agency that the president-elect has long slammed as corrupt.
Patel, 44, has worked as a federal prosecutor and a public defender but rose to prominence in Trump circles after expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. He has called for the FBI leadership to be fired as part of a drive to bring federal law enforcement “to heel.”
If confirmed, Patel would replace Christopher Wray, the FBI director who was appointed by Trump in 2017 after the then-president fired James Comey over the FBI’s Russia collusion probe.
Comey later testified to Congress there was no evidence of any collusion but the FBI had a “basis for investigating” the matter.
Patel had ties to former Republican representative Devin Nunes, who led opposition to the Russia probe by special counsel Robert Muller while serving as chair of the House intelligence committee.
In making his nomination for FBI director, Trump said in a statement on Truth Social that Patel “is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People.”
“Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” Trump added.
Trump noted Patel’s service as chief of staff at the department of defense, deputy director of national intelligence, and senior director for counter-terrorism at the national security council during his first term.
Patel, he said, “played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution.”
“This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border”, he said.
If confirmed by the senate – Gina Haspel, CIA director during Trump’s first term, reportedly threatened to resign in 2020 when Trump sought to install Patel as her deputy – Patel will likely prove a loyal agent of Trump’s desire to reform what the president-elect considers Washington’s bureaucratic overreach.
Patel told the Conservative Political Action Conference in July it was necessary to “identify the people in government that are crippling our constitutional republic”.
Trump has called Patel’s 2023 book “Government Gangsters”, in which he argued for firing of government employees who undermine the president’s agenda, a “blueprint to take back the White House”.
The reforms Patel outlined in the book “to defeat the deep state” include moving the FBI headquarters from Washington to “curb FBI leadership from engaging in political gamesmanship” and to reduce the general counsel’s office, which he claimed had taken on “prosecutorial decision-making”.
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