by John Nantz, Townhall:
The most poignant moment of Kash Patel’s hearing on Thursday, as Trump’s FBI Director nominee, was his response to Senator Welch (D-VT). Having waded through the thoroughly boring Democrat tropes referencing January 6th, and the laboriously repeated question absolutely no one cares about—does Patel believe Trump actually lost the 2020 election?—he deftly exploited a subtle opening in Welch’s line of questioning. He responded with a statement pregnant with common sense, “That’s why I think its time, for the first time in this country’s history, that a public defender be the next director of the FBI, because no one knows more about constitutional due process than PDs.”
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For the Democrat party, the ghost of Liz Cheney still haunts their nocturnal fantasies with the siren song of insurrection. In response to the incessant Democrat caterwauling, America simply yawned, preferring the message of Make America Great Again. But, people like Welch just don’t get it.
Since the directorship of Louis Freeh, FBI directors have been selected from what many brick agents would describe as the “empty suit” club. From Muller, to Comey, to Wray, the director’s office has been occupied by people drawn from the bureaucratic establishment. All of them known entities with all the right pedigrees, resumes approved by fellow bureaucrats and beholden to the administrative state. The result has been an FBI more oriented toward the interests of the state than the civil liberties of the American people. But, with Patel, we see a distinct departure from that statist culture.
Kash Patel has a list of credentials that easily qualify him for the office of FBI Director. He served as Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, as Deputy Assistant to President Donald J. Trump, and Senior director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, where he played a critical role in eliminating top terrorism leaders and recovering American hostages. He served as Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence. Most famously, Patel was the National Security Advisor to the House Intelligence Committee, and headed the only substantive investigation into the spurious Russiagate matter. He was a DOJ terrorism prosecutor, and started his career as a public defender (PD). Patel holds a law degree from the University College of London (with a certificate in International Law), and a bachelor’s from the University of Richmond.
