On Friday's PBS News Hour, new york times Columnist David Brooks believes Kash Patel will be confirmed by the Senate to head the FBI, but he doesn't know how effective Patel and his colleagues are because “bureaucracies have the ability to prevent anything from happening.” He said he doubted whether it would become a Noh play. And he said a president he spoke to once told him, “There's a lot of passive-aggressive behavior in government. You give orders and nothing happens.”
Mr Brooks said: I think – in a brutal way, what I'm interested in is how effective he will be… I once asked him what he learned that he didn't know. And there's a lot of passive-aggressive behavior in government, he said. Nothing happens even if I give the command. And the bureaucracy has the capacity for nothing to happen. Kash Patel says he wants to eliminate FBI headquarters from day one. Really? Do you really think you have that ability? So I don't think we'll see much political opposition. I would be very interested to see how the agency itself would react if someone like this were to take the lead. ”
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