From a 34 year federal employee (social security administration) I am disgusted by what has transpired during this administration has done to all federal agencies. The Doge flunkies have done would have gotten any SS fired, manager or not. It’s been 19 years since retirement yet it still makes me sick what they have done to one of the most important and productive agency. I live in a retirement community and have golfed with many retired FBI agents and I’m in awe of their dedication and disgust with bug eyes and how he has harmed not only the morale of another premier agency but also the doubt they have cast over the current FBI. Kash is as qualified to be director as I would be running NASA. When will my fellow citizens wake up and see what is being done to our country
You seem to have a good handle on what's going on in the justice department then say you expect a reckoning to come when Congress flips at midterms as if the election will be legit? 🤣
To all those that get so discouraged they want to give up, I get it bc sometimes I have to just tune it put for a few days just to keep from losing it! We beat him in 2020 & we can do it again bc together we are strong! I read something recently but don't know who said it or even where I read it? "If you're going through hell, keep going."
This whole operation is a mafia bust-out. They’re sucking all the value out of DOJ (really all of government)—spending all the budget, firing people, bringing in goons, using up the institutional credibility—without worrying about the organization. Then they’ll light it all on fire as they walk out the door. Expect them to file an insurance claim for the fire they set. Let’s hope there’s some justice at the end.
I marvel at how "Endorsed by Trump" Republicans can run for office as anti-corruption fighters. Here we have one who wants to become Attorney General. smh.
What I worry about is how can there be so many in the FBI that have been willing to a) turn a blind eye; or b) grasp hold of the corruption in order to settle their own grievances. As much as I hated J. Edgar Hoover in his heyday, he now looks like a choirboy compared to Patel. Same as John Mitchell compared to Todd Blanche. Trump was corrupt in his first term, but through his 'education' under the tutelage of Viktor Orbán he gained much insight into how to destroy any part of the system that might hold him accountable. Not just in the Executive Branch, but also in the Legislative and Judicial Branches. Trump has appointed 277 judges (as of today), and I doubt that Aileen Cannon is an exception to the rule of corruption. Almost totally, they are the hand picked destroyers of the Republic that the Heritage Foundation has promoted.
Then there is ICE. Anyone still in ICE must be assumed to be crooked, probably also cruel and sadistic and having no respect for the rule of law. Trump has recruited this kind of human (cough) because it fits his needs. The honest members of ICE should have already left, realizing that they can't do anything to stop the carnage and by turning a blind eye they become complicit.
But worse than that are the people in the Secret Service who have betrayed their oath of office, not defending the Constitution but acting as the personal protection service to Trump. You have to ask how many crimes they have seen and chosen to ignore. Can the next President trust the Secret Service, or will they be moles left to damage the newly elected chief executive?
I wish I had an answer that doesn't sound like deus ex machina. But I don't. The only way to punish many of these people is to do exactly to them what was done to the rest of us, which would be truly hypocritical. Now I won't wish anything bad upon anyone, but it sure would be a shame if their benefactor was to be called by Nature to be before the Great Judge before he got around to issuing all those promised carte blanche pardons.
You say that things will change but they will only change with criminal prosecutions of Blanche & Patel. Otherwise, people will get the idea that this is how things work
In order to deliver justice to Patel and Blanche we need a transfer of power; the votes are not the problem, the insurrectionists transferring power is.
True, but a good reason to not let the putrefaction go on too long: the sooner the problem is tackled, the more agents loyal to the legacy of the FBI are likely to still be around to help repair the damage.
If you really crave the notion of watching grown men and women cru like the little babies they are, wait until they get rounded up and indicted on real charges. Real criminal convictions and real sentences. My money is on Kash being the biggest and loudest baby in the group.
This is really reminiscent of Stalin’s Great Terror. Instructive books to read are The Whisperers by Orlando Figes or Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. We presume that the law and our courts will be predictable and sane—so far that’s true.
Thank you for the article, Mr. Wilson. Kash Patel has another problem. He drinks quite heavily. He is also a very insecure person. Having MMA fighters train FBI men. It seems that someone hires people that are not trained themselves. That is why, I believe a criminal element exists in DOJ and most likely FBI.
From a 34 year federal employee (social security administration) I am disgusted by what has transpired during this administration has done to all federal agencies. The Doge flunkies have done would have gotten any SS fired, manager or not. It’s been 19 years since retirement yet it still makes me sick what they have done to one of the most important and productive agency. I live in a retirement community and have golfed with many retired FBI agents and I’m in awe of their dedication and disgust with bug eyes and how he has harmed not only the morale of another premier agency but also the doubt they have cast over the current FBI. Kash is as qualified to be director as I would be running NASA. When will my fellow citizens wake up and see what is being done to our country
You seem to have a good handle on what's going on in the justice department then say you expect a reckoning to come when Congress flips at midterms as if the election will be legit? 🤣
To all those that get so discouraged they want to give up, I get it bc sometimes I have to just tune it put for a few days just to keep from losing it! We beat him in 2020 & we can do it again bc together we are strong! I read something recently but don't know who said it or even where I read it? "If you're going through hell, keep going."
This whole operation is a mafia bust-out. They’re sucking all the value out of DOJ (really all of government)—spending all the budget, firing people, bringing in goons, using up the institutional credibility—without worrying about the organization. Then they’ll light it all on fire as they walk out the door. Expect them to file an insurance claim for the fire they set. Let’s hope there’s some justice at the end.
I marvel at how "Endorsed by Trump" Republicans can run for office as anti-corruption fighters. Here we have one who wants to become Attorney General. smh.
What I worry about is how can there be so many in the FBI that have been willing to a) turn a blind eye; or b) grasp hold of the corruption in order to settle their own grievances. As much as I hated J. Edgar Hoover in his heyday, he now looks like a choirboy compared to Patel. Same as John Mitchell compared to Todd Blanche. Trump was corrupt in his first term, but through his 'education' under the tutelage of Viktor Orbán he gained much insight into how to destroy any part of the system that might hold him accountable. Not just in the Executive Branch, but also in the Legislative and Judicial Branches. Trump has appointed 277 judges (as of today), and I doubt that Aileen Cannon is an exception to the rule of corruption. Almost totally, they are the hand picked destroyers of the Republic that the Heritage Foundation has promoted.
Then there is ICE. Anyone still in ICE must be assumed to be crooked, probably also cruel and sadistic and having no respect for the rule of law. Trump has recruited this kind of human (cough) because it fits his needs. The honest members of ICE should have already left, realizing that they can't do anything to stop the carnage and by turning a blind eye they become complicit.
But worse than that are the people in the Secret Service who have betrayed their oath of office, not defending the Constitution but acting as the personal protection service to Trump. You have to ask how many crimes they have seen and chosen to ignore. Can the next President trust the Secret Service, or will they be moles left to damage the newly elected chief executive?
I wish I had an answer that doesn't sound like deus ex machina. But I don't. The only way to punish many of these people is to do exactly to them what was done to the rest of us, which would be truly hypocritical. Now I won't wish anything bad upon anyone, but it sure would be a shame if their benefactor was to be called by Nature to be before the Great Judge before he got around to issuing all those promised carte blanche pardons.
"There's fuckery afoot." -- 'The Gentlemen'
Why do you think tRump & his sycophants are trying so hard to suppress the vote?
You say that things will change but they will only change with criminal prosecutions of Blanche & Patel. Otherwise, people will get the idea that this is how things work
In order to deliver justice to Patel and Blanche we need a transfer of power; the votes are not the problem, the insurrectionists transferring power is.
True, but a good reason to not let the putrefaction go on too long: the sooner the problem is tackled, the more agents loyal to the legacy of the FBI are likely to still be around to help repair the damage.
Truth
If you really crave the notion of watching grown men and women cru like the little babies they are, wait until they get rounded up and indicted on real charges. Real criminal convictions and real sentences. My money is on Kash being the biggest and loudest baby in the group.
If that ever happens
But won’t Patel and the others just defy any subpoenas? And when they’re held in contempt, who’s going to enforce it. Not the DOJ!
This is really reminiscent of Stalin’s Great Terror. Instructive books to read are The Whisperers by Orlando Figes or Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. We presume that the law and our courts will be predictable and sane—so far that’s true.
Our lower courts have held; not so much for the Supreme Court
Thank you for the article, Mr. Wilson. Kash Patel has another problem. He drinks quite heavily. He is also a very insecure person. Having MMA fighters train FBI men. It seems that someone hires people that are not trained themselves. That is why, I believe a criminal element exists in DOJ and most likely FBI.
The entire administration is a criminal syndicate