Kash Patel knows what it feels like to be spied on by the FBI
This is what I’m referring to:
As chief counsel, Patel had no idea [between 2017 and 2018] that the subject of his investigation — the FBI — was collecting his data and increasing the visibility of witnesses he was communicating with, including whistleblowers.
At the time, Patel was demanding to see FBI documents and depose FBI witnesses to find out if the bureau had abused its power in obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page.
But Patel remained in the dark until 2022, when Google finally was cleared to send him a copy of the subpoena. Outraged, he told me at the time: “The FBI and DOJ subpoenaed my personal records while I caught them doing this to Page back in 2017.”
He said the McCabe FBI didn’t want anybody to find out that it “literally copied and pasted” Democrat opposition research, wholesale, into wiretap-warrant applications.
He added that he hoped those behind the abuses would be prosecuted by a future Trump administration: “They must be held accountable or they’ll only abuse their power again.”
The IG probe reveals that the FBI had renewed the subpoenas each year, snooping on congressional staffers for up to five years. That means McCabe’s successor, Christopher Wray, signed off on the continued collections.
Some would call it revenge. But I think it more rightly should be called justice, and perhaps even poetic justice, that Patel is poised to become FBI director.
The FBI has been out of control for a long time regarding Trump and the right. The people who have been participating have long believed there will be no serious negative consequences for them, and so far they have been correct. Perhaps that’s about to end.
This is not revenge, it is not retribution. It is accountability and justice.
We will never have trust in these institutions if the people who did this do not take responsibility for their decisions and actions.
One new reveal
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ab63MUNhsL0
While I don’t think Patel’s mission at the FBI and Trump’s administration in general should be primarily motivated by revenge, I think it is only human nature to want some type of revenge for what has been done to them. An obsession with revenge can very easily turn toxic, but I think it is unrealistic to think that revenge will play no part in the actions to clean up the corrupt FBI and DOJ. And I don’t have a problem with that.
FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation – one of the main investigative & enforcement arms of the beloved Rule of Law here in America. The FBI is long past having proper “revenge” or “justice” meted out to it.
Run an AI question thru Gemini, Copilot, ChatGPT, Grok and/or perplexity. I ran ‘how long has federal bureau of investigation been corrupt?’ thru all five__didn’t like the “corrupt” word choice, but my vocabulary is rather limited.
Same imperfect human gene pool to choose agents from—basically same gene pool the Sumerians, Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Indians, Ancient Chinese, Greeks, Persians, Romans, etc. used to select the much earlier ‘Agents’ from – in those earlier versions of the FBI. Yes, civilized societies have had their versions of the FBI and the CIA. Wonder if Dostoevsky mentioned such in Crime and Punishment?
Back to Kash Patel, the FBI, and AIs:
The Rule of Law, the investigating involved in it, and the enforcement of it has been broken since about 4000 BC. I seriously doubt that it is ever gonna be fixed…by humans anyway.
I guess I am more measured in what should be done to those in the FBI that abused the trust of Americans. Sure, you can fire them if still with the FBI, take their pensions, prosecute them if you can find a fair jury. But I will just go with Edward I and what he did to his enemies. Because they are our enemies.
Shut it down; reassign any necessary tasks to other agencies. Prosecute/imprison all who have engaged in criminal activity, starting at the top.
That would be how you take power away from the Left.
Patel was, according to Devin Nunes, the prime investigator who uncovered the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He knows where to look and where the bodies are buried. That is the primary reason the Dems don’t want him as director. He knows too much already and will disclose what is still hidden. The MSM will try to smother/ignore the info, but they are becoming irrelevant. It’s going to come out and anyone with any curiosity will learn it. It’s not going to be good for the present FBI.
Can he reform the agency? Aye, that’s the question.
So…was post-WWII de-nazification justice or revenge, tell me true…
(…never mind that it didn’t always work as well as it was supposed to…)
Or was it “merely” a question of pragmatism…? (Or a question of questionable pragmatics…?)
File under: The West Germans owe the USSR a huge debt. (And not just the W. Germans… Discuss amongst yerselves…)