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I'm the guy that's going to tell you they need major reforms. I'm going to tell you to shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up as a museum of the Deep State the next day. Seriously, you need 50 guys in Washington running the FBI,
Patel said
As part of the nominations process, Patel has complied with all financial disclosure requirements. The Office of Government Ethics and the Department of Justice have reviewed and approved his financial disclosures. Any effort to raise concerns about Patel's financial disclosures should be dismissed as an obvious smear campaign."
A spokesperson for Senator Chuck Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said in a statementI don’t care because I believe that people of the world need to have an alternative vision from a mainstream media narrative,
he said on TNT Radio
That includes countless meetings with senators, disclosing and reporting all sources of income, submitting hundreds of pages of documents, replying to hundreds of pages of questions for the record, and testifying for six hours with multiple rounds of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
she added
It's become clear that this administration is intent on destroying the FBI and eschewing the rule of law,
Webster wrote in a scathing letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
This moment is not just about one nomination; it is about whether the FBI remains independent and effective or becomes simply a political tool,
he said
As a fellow Republican, I urge you to consider the risks to national security, the integrity of the Bureau, and the safety of the American people before allowing this nomination to proceed unchecked,
Webster said Tuesday to Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over Patel’s nominationThe FBI is not perfect, nor has it ever been, but it is still the preeminent law enforcement agency on the planet,
Webster wroteThe Senate Judiciary Committee will not fall for Democrats’ delay tactics,
Grassley said in his Tuesday statementGiven all that has happened since last Thursday, I respectfully ask you to re-open the hearing on Mr. Patel,
he wrote in his letterThe conflicts of interest seem very obvious to me,
Holman saidMr. Patel has gone above and beyond in this advice and consent process,
she saidWhite supremacist extremists will likely continue to see the FBI as a threat to their organizing and as a convenient opponent in propaganda,
said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at the non-profit Counter Extremism Project
If Patel is confirmed to head the FBI, I think we can expect to see the agency abandon any serious efforts to confront far-right extremist groups,
said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and ExtremismThe public should be concerned about emboldened white supremacists and possible terrorism coming from these far-right movements who may be getting a pass from Patel’s FBI.”
Beirich, who has studied far-right extremism for decades, added that in her estimationsToday, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy,
wrote DennehyIf Kash Patel actually ends the FBI spying programs and using agents/informants to subvert political movements through gayops,
wrote an online neo-Nazi publication run by former leaders of the now defunct Atomwaffen Division, a designated international terrorist organization in multiple countriesYou should go back to where you came from,
he described being said to him, after putting on the record another vile, six-word epithet he was labeled withI like Kash fr, he is based af,
wrote one Telegram user on a post about Patel from a neo-Nazi account with thousands of followersThey’re also bitching that they’re not getting the buyout offers like everyone else is,
they posted, referring to the broader buyouts to federal worker being offered by the Trump administration