Ka$h Patel is a poster-child example of the kind of leadership and governing you get when you hire performative internet trolls and Fox "news" weekend talk show co-hosts for high positions in your government, as well as military (Hegseth):
Link: Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job - The Atlantic
"On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”
Patel oversees an agency that employs roughly 38,000 people, including many who are trained to investigate and verify information that can be presented under oath in a court of law. News of his emotional outburst ricocheted through the bureau, prompting chatter among officials and, in some corners of the building, expressions of relief. The White House fielded calls from the bureau and from members of Congress asking who was now in charge of the FBI.
It turned out that the answer was still Patel. He had not been fired. The access problem, two people familiar with the matter said, appears to have been a technical error, and it was quickly resolved. “It was all ultimately bullshit,” one FBI official told me.
But Patel, according to multiple current officials, as well as former officials who have stayed close to him, is deeply concerned that his job is in jeopardy. He has good reasons to think so—including some having to do with what witnesses described to me as bouts of excessive drinking. My colleague Ashley Parker and I reported earlier this month that Patel was among the officials expected to be fired after Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ouster, on April 2. “We’re all just waiting for the word” that Patel is officially out of the top job, an FBI official told me this week, and a former official told my colleague Jonathan Lemire that Patel was “rightly paranoid.” Senior members of the Trump administration are already discussing who might replace him, according to an administration official and two people close to the White House who were familiar with the conversations."
Ka$h Patel was always a terrible fucking choice to make the head of the FBI, but from Drumpf's perspective, it was a conveniently transactional choice.
Patel was chosen solely to be the instrument of destruction from within to the agency that had been involved in investigating and indicting DonOld for his previous crimes, and Drumpf saw the quisling quality in Patel that he seeks in all of his nominees as an opportunity to exact some revenge.
At Drumpf's bidding, Patel has shut down any and all investigations into Drumpf's crimes as well as crimes of his cronies. Patel has purged the FBI of any and all agents involved in any aspect with any of Drumpf's criminal investigations.
Patel, like Pam 'Scam Blondi' Bondi was always where he was because he was a convenient stooge for Drumpf to manipulate and control for his own pernicious purposes. Look for Patel to be jettisoned soon enough. DonOld has pretty much gotten his usefulness out of the phony little rat bastard.
And of course, just as he did with Noem's and Bondi's replacements, watch Drumpf choose someone just as, if not more unqualified and shady (Todd Blanche for ie.) to supplant Ka$h and his booze-fueled fratboy sideshow.
When certain people in this country gave a mobbed-up, 'pussy-grabbing' orange clown the powers of the US presidency, they should have expected, and no doubt many did but didn't care, a circus administration.
Well, the time has come to at long last run this entire fly-by-night MAGA governing circus out of town and ban them from returning.
---TFG
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