Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who closed the investigation into the Clinton Foundation in 2016 and then undermined Trump's presidency in Crossfire Hurricane, said CNN reported Thursday that former Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers would be a “totally reasonable and logical choice” to be President-elect Donald Trump's FBI director.
McCabe said Rogers' “best qualifications…are the respect and respect he has for intelligence agencies, the work they do, the seriousness of that work, and how their classified and classified information should be treated.” It's consciousness and knowledge.” Protected. ”
To the likely displeasure of Mr. McCabe and other supporters of the Washington security establishment, Mr. Trump appears to have joined Michigan voters in rejecting Mr. Rogers.
President Trump Advisor Dan Scavino shown Friday Morning – Right after Brian Kilmeade on FOX News praised Rodgers. –As for replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray, Mr. Rogers' appointment is “not happening.”
Scavino quoted President-elect Donald Trump as saying, “I've never thought about that.”
This was good news for those who had hoped that former National Security Council official Kash Patel would be named as Wray's successor.
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Possibility of defense lobbyist with ties to censorship groups hostile to President Trump historically cooperative The contents of the FBI's mass surveillance program have worried Trump supporters and other critics of the dysfunctional administrative state, especially those hoping to nominate Patel.
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“The damage that someone like Kash Patel can do is enormous.”
Glenn Greenwald, independent journalist tweeted“There is literally no worse appointment than choosing Mike Rogers to be FBI director or any other government position. He is the single most dedicated supporter of the U.S. national security state and all its multifaceted abuses. Nothing worse than Mike,” Rodgers said. ”
WikiLeaks emphasized that Mr. Rogers, who is supported by Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and John Cornyn of Texas, was not just a proponent of repression. republican memo He was critical of the FBI's spying on the Trump campaign, but was also involved in the activities of the German Marshall Fund. Alliance for Securing Democracy initiative and its hamilton 68 dashboard. WikiLeaks said the dashboard's “true purpose appears to be to cast doubt on Trump's supporters and strengthen the case that the Trump presidency is illegitimate.”
McCabe — former inspector general of the Department of Justice, who President Trump fired in March 2018 concluded Mr. McCabe, who authorized leaks to Liberal reporters and then lied about them, expressed fear Thursday that Mr. Patel could come to power.
“I don't believe that an outsider with no experience in the organization, no knowledge of the nature of the work or the scope of authority involved, would be able to perform adequately,” he said. said CNN. “The damage that someone like Kash Patel can do is enormous when he or she assumes a position with nothing but a desire to disrupt and destroy an organization.”
Mr McCabe is not the only establishment figure who fears Mr Patel will take over the station.
“I would shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one.”
Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner told CNN's Jessica Dean on Sunday: “I think it would be extremely, extremely dangerous to have someone like Kash Patel in the FBI Director position.” .
Brunner added: “He has made it clear that he wants revenge on those who investigated President Trump and those who investigated President Trump. He will cause tremendous damage within the FBI.”
Left wing blog New Republic called Patel is an “intellectual lightweight,” adding, “Trump's appointment of Patel to the FBI would certainly further his and the MAGA alliance's goal of ridding the federal workforce of dishonest employees.” ' he warned.
In his book “Government Gangsters,” Patel said “government tyranny” within the FBI must be eliminated and those who “abused their power in any way for political purposes” must be eliminated. asked to do so.
“The FBI is completely compromised and will continue to be a threat to the public unless drastic measures are taken,” Patel wrote.
recent patels said “The Sean Ryan Show,'' “The FBI will shut down the Hoover Building on its first day and reopen it as a deep state museum the next day.''
Blaze News previously reported that Patel served as chief of staff to former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, despite his lack of experience. He serves as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. Chief Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence. as National Security Advisor to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; as a terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice; As a public defender. And as a hockey coach.
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