{"id":132439,"date":"2024-12-02T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132439"},"modified":"2024-12-02T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:57:46","slug":"kash-patel-would-bring-bravado-and-baggage-to-f-b-i-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132439","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel Would Bring Bravado and Baggage to F.B.I. Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Few people tapped for any top federal post, much less a job as vital as F.B.I. director, have come with quite so much bravado, bombast or baggage as Kash Patel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Saturday, Mr. Patel, 44, a Long Island-born provocateur and right-wing operative, was named by President-elect Donald J. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-replace-christopher-wray.html\" title=\"\">to lead the F.B.I.<\/a>, an agency he has accused of leading a \u201cdeep state\u201d witch hunt against Mr. Trump. The announcement amounted to a de facto<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\"> <\/em>dismissal of the current director, Christopher A. Wray, who was appointed to the job by Mr. Trump and still has almost three years left on his 10-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Patel\u2019s maximum-volume threats to<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>exact far-reaching revenge on Mr. Trump\u2019s behalf have endeared him to his boss and Trump allies who say the bureau needs a disrupter to weed out bias and reshape its culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his record as a public official and his incendiary public comments are likely to provoke intense questioning when the Senate weighs his nomination \u2014 and determines whether he should run an agency charged with protecting Americans from terrorism, street crime, cartels and political corruption, along with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/speeches\/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the threat posed by China, which Mr.<\/a> Wray has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/31\/us\/politics\/fbi-director-china-wray-.html\" title=\"\">described as existential.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here are some of the things Mr. Patel has said and done that could complicate his confirmation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-4c0a5c36\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">He was accused of nearly botching a high-stakes hostage rescue.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In October 2020, Mr. Patel, then a senior national intelligence official in the Trump administration, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/14\/us\/politics\/kash-patel.html\" title=\"\">inserted himself<\/a> into a secret effort by members of SEAL Team Six to rescue Philip Walton, an American who was 27 at the time and had been kidnapped by gunmen in Niger and taken to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Patel, whose involvement broke with protocol, assured the State and Defense Departments that the Nigerian government had been told of the operation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1336jj\">\n<div class=\"css-121kum4\">\n<div class=\"css-asuuk5\"><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-7axq9l\" data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"css-1b5b8u1\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M2.5 12a9.5 9.5 0 1 1 19 0 9.5 9.5 0 0 1-19 0Zm8.5 1.75v-7.5h2v7.5h-2Zm0 2v2h2v-2h-2Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript-message\" class=\"css-6yo1no\">\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\" id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<hr\/>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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