United States: President Trump’s appointment of senior national security adviser Kash Patel for FBI director stands as his most revealing pick to understand the hidden resistance during his first mandate while committing to disrupt the deep state during his second term, as reported by Washingtontimes.
If President Trump aims to reach his policy goals he needs the Senate to confirm Kash Patel because his nomination fails to satisfy Republican Party intelligence community supporters on Capitol Hill.
The FBI’s Past Challenges Under Trump
President Trump understood the FBI’s influence against his administration during his presidency when he dismissed FBI Director James B. Comey in May 2017. The appointment of Christopher A. Wray as FBI Director failed to control the intelligence agency because the candidate sought and received support from Republican establishment officials who maintained strong ties with Washington’s permanent intel community.
He refused to terminate the bizarre Russia collusion investigation which Director Comey originally initiated to destroy President Trump’s presidency while simultaneously revealing his total inadequacy to fight corruption operating deep within the FBI’s seventh-floor Hoover Building headquarters.
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Under the guise of an attempt to combat “domestic terrorism,” Mr. Wray’s careless leadership allowed Antifa—a terrorist organization he described as “more of an ideology than an organization”—to flourish and served as the enforcement apparatus of a politicized Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Biden administration, who rounded up both senior advisers of the former president and grassroots Trump supporters.
Several key members of the Republican party warned President Trump not to replace Mr. Wray because they expected similar public outrage that followed his dismissal of Mr. Comey in 2017.
The FBI maintains an autonomous position within government through its reputation for nonpartisanship; thus, it needs united leadership regardless of presidential changes. The bipartisan belief that emerged following Watergate established a standard under which the FBI needed to remain impartial thus avoiding the perception of serving presidential vengeance against political adversaries. This principle took shape under J. Edgar Hoover, who ruled the FBI for eight presidential terms.
Without his penchant for dressing as a woman, Mr. Wray flew from Hoover’s direct line of succession by using his power against political foes through methods that shocked most modern democracies. Mr. Wray showed aggressive behavior when he searched through Melania Trump’s intimate underwear collection. From above (or below) the situation, J. Edgar observes his successor with pride and possibly a hint of envy. Post-Hoover era FBI directors Comey and Wray expanded their agency’s role from researching political adversaries to establishing a deep-state force that enforces globalist elite policies against all dissenting Americans.
The FBI’s Evolving Role and Mission Creep
The FBI’s mission expansion following 9/11 created the current unresponsive intelligence and investigative force that now enforces globalist policy consensus against American citizens. The only effective solution to counter this mission creep is to revert the FBI to its domestic Justice Department reporting status.
Each new generation of congressional oversight members has instead melted into the intelligence community establishment’s dominant mindset after obtaining social access to top-secret intelligence briefings. This grants them the license to impose community consensus on doubting citizens while suppressing dissenting voices.
Patel as the Deep State’s Nemesis
Since working as a senior aide on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, followed by his positions at the Pentagon and serving under Mr. Trump’s director of national intelligence, Mr. Patel acquired an in-depth understanding of the contemporary FBI and its current operations, which target American citizens. His expertise enables him to manage law enforcement operations, so they stop violating American citizens who merely challenge official narratives. Their survival as a governing power is threatened by Mr. Patel so severely that the “intel community” and their Congressional supporters fight back with every available means they have, as reported by Washingtontimes.
Because Mr. Patel identified government intelligence agents as “gangsters” he became the main target of opposition within those powers. The confirmation process offers what could be our final chance to loosen the government agencies’ control over our democratic governance.