The FBI Secretly Spied On Incoming Director Kash Patel, Shocking Report Finds
A bombshell report from a government watchdog group revealed that the FBI spied on its likely incoming director, Kash Patel, during the bogus Russian collusion investigation.
At the time, Patel was working as a senior aide to then House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA). Patel is credited with playing a key role in unraveling the bogus investigation, which was launched on the basis of Clinton Campaign-funded opposition research.
According to a recently released watchdog report, the DOJ secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers, including Patel. Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had no control over the matter after he recused himself from the investigation.
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The 100-page report revealed that the FBI subpoenaed the records as part of an investigation it opened to find out whether congressional staffers were leaking classified information concerning the probe to the Washington Post and other media outlets.
Career justice department prosecutors called on Google and Apple to turn over private information of of subjects the FBI identified “between September 2017 and March 2018.” Andrew McCabe was running the bureau as acting FBI director at the time.
Patel and other targets of the FBI’s surveillance were not notified.
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The report comes as Patel has vowed to clean house at the bureau if confirmed. “The biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its Intel shops. I’d break that component out of it. I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state,” Patel said during a recent appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show.
“And I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops, you’re cops, go be cops, go chase down murderers and and drug dealers and violent offenders.
What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here?” he continued. “Looking for their next government promotion, looking for their next fancy government title, looking for their parachute out of government. So while you’re bringing in the right people, you also have to shrink government.”
Patel’s appointment has spooked a number of current and former career employees with the DOJ and FBI, including Andrew McCabe, who currently works as a law enforcement analyst for CNN.
The former acting director described Patel’s nomination as a “terrible development” for the FBI and questioned Patel’s qualifications, ignoring the fact that he has a more extensive resume than recently resigned director Christopher Wray.
“ And, you know, as an organization, we know what that looks like. This country has been there before, right? The pre-Watergate FBI, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI struck fear in the hearts of Americans across the spectrum of politicians, people in entertainment, people in the civil rights community, because the director operated at the direction of presidents to collect political intelligence and to utilize the legal authorities, the investigative authorities of the FBI to terrorize and intimidate Americans,” the former acting director went on to say.
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