As President-elect Donald Trump assembles his new administration, his critics have touted one of two schools of thought.
Kash Patel, former deputy director of National Intelligence, is author of “Government Gangsters.” The Laguna Woods Tea Party Sentinels will be showing a movie based on the book. The first is the “calling balls and strikes” school, in which his detractors evaluate each nominee or action individually. It goes like this: “Hey that was a good choice for the State Department, but a bad one for the Department of Labor.
The jury is out on which — if either — view is correct, but Trump’s selection of attorney Kash Patel as the director of the FBI certainly bolsters the second tale. The 44-year-old New Yorker held moderate-ranking federal jobs, having served as a prosecutor and chief of staff to the secretary of defense in the previous Trump administration. He’s best-known as a Trump “loyalist.”
A highly politicized appointee can use the agency’s fearsome powers to punish the president’s political enemies. In the wake of egregious FBI abuses and scandals, Congress limited a director’s term to 10 years. So it’s a bad sign that Trump even named a new director given that the existing one — Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed during his first term — still has two years left in his appointment.
Trump and his allies have some legitimate beefs with the FBI and its conduct. So do many other Americans who have experienced its overreach and abuses. But the right way to approach those outrages is to neuter its authority — not to use it to exact revenge or appoint someone to lead the FBI who threatens to use federal power to come after the media and others.
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