FBI Director Kash Patel has stated that the FBI misled authorities to secure a surveillance warrant to unlawfully monitor Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election and throughout his first term in office.
“It took me two years to prove this: a political party in the U.S. would go overseas and hire fake intelligence agencies to create false, unverified information,” Patel remarked on Sean Hannity’s show. Chatting with Sean Hannity.
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Patel elaborated that political parties would “collect that information, not only for the intelligence agencies but also for the FBI, and then compile the misinformation funded by campaign resources to present to secret surveillance courts.”
“This process consumed two years of my life,” he reiterated. “And what did we uncover? The FISA court indicated that these warrants were unlawful, that the FBI failed to provide evidence of innocence, and essentially misrepresented information in those applications.”
Continuing, Patel mentioned this was only “step one,” adding, “We were aware it wouldn’t stop there.”
“During the four years we were out of office, I realized they were still reconstructing their system of weaponization,” Patel stated. He noted, “I discovered that I was being spied on illegally by individuals including the former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Director Chris Wray.”
Furthermore, he claimed that “10 other staff members on Capitol Hill, including those elected to serve the country,” were also subjected to illegal surveillance.
“They maintained the weaponization tactics that Donald Trump and I highlighted during Trump’s first term. And we caught them,” he asserted.
“When I stepped in, I knew: these people, claiming to be law enforcement and government leaders, are so arrogant that they’re literally documenting their supposed greatness,” Patel remarked.
Patel also alleged, “That’s how we uncovered the truth during Russiagate. It wasn’t just my documents; it was their emails.”
“It was their FISA application, their fabricated Steele dossier. What we released and you covered was their unverified report recorded in the FBI’s files,” Patel emphasized.
“I was aware there were other locations where that information was concealed,” he continued. “So I sought to uncover it from day one, and I eventually did.”
Notably, Patel’s remarks follow Congress’s recent 45-day renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), amidst growing scrutiny over the federal government’s surveillance practices.
