Ex-FBI Director Admits Kash Patel's Looming Confirmation Vote Has Deep State in PANIC
Disgraced former deputy and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said those within the bureau are dreading the confirmation of President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel.
McCabe, who currently works as a legal affairs and national security analyst for CNN, claimed that Patel’s confirmation will bring “chaos” to the bureau, admitting that the establishment is in a state of “panic” and “terror.”
McCabe was asked about President Donald Trump‘s Department of Justice decision to fire dozens of senior FBI officials.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove also asked acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll to provide the names of agents who worked on the January 6 investigation.
The list, which includes 37,000 employees, may lead to more agents being fired.
“This is totally unprecedented. FBI rank-and-file agents and analysts who make up the vast majority of the field offices who do the work of investigating these cases, of executing search warrants, of executing arrest warrants, doing surveillance, electronic surveillance, whatever it might be, those people are never touched by the political winds that blow through every four years, nor should they be,” McCabe said of the agency.
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“As you said, they don’t pick their work, they’re assigned to the work that they do. The work they do is lawful, it’s within FBI policies, and not doing the work is not really an option for them.”
McCabe attempted to defend the bureau as a nonpartisan law enforcement agency, despite the fact that they failed to launch investigations into Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 while aggressively pursuing Trump supporters.
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“And so to be targeted in this way for termination potentially or retribution simply for doing their jobs on a major national security case is incomprehensible to them or anybody that knows the organization,” the former director added.
McCabe admitted the agency is in “utter disarray” over Kash Patel’s impending confirmation.
“You know, if you’re anywhere in the middle of that career, not close to retirement, if you get fired, you’re done,” McCabe said.
“That’s the end of your reputation, your ability to get a new job. You lose your pay, you lose your chance at a pension, you lose your health insurance. This is a moment of terror for these people,” he added.
“It is absolutely disgraceful that they are being put through this in the middle of some political gamesmanship or act of retribution.”
“They don’t deserve to be treated this way,” he said before claiming that Trump’s actions are “unlawful.”
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