Defending Kash Patel from Himself
September 14, 2025 | Sundance1/2
Many people were thrilled with the nomination and eventual confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. However, with decades of researching the political weaponization of the FBI and against the known capabilities of the nominee,we were not part of the thrilled group.
The non-pretenders looked at the challenge, contrast the scope of work against the skillset of theperson selected to confront the institutional corruption, and warned people there was more reason to be apprehensive than optimistic.
Do you remember usoutlining how the various FBI field offices would be keeping Patel/Bongino tied up with busy work, and stuff to go on TV about.
That said, we donāt want him to fail, but Director Patel has walked himself into a gauntlet of consequence that will be difficult to exitgiven his lack of discernmentā evidenced in the events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The people in control of FBI field operations (not Kash), set up their agency head by informing the boss a suspect was in custody.
The ever focused on public opinion, Director Kash Patel, then took to Twitter at 6:21 pm on September 10th to relay the news. According to media reports Patel was just about to eat dinner at a swanky New York City restaurantwhen he sent the text message.
We all watched it unfold.
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After eating dinner at Raoās,an embarrassed Kash Patel was then forced to retract his public statement, walking back his message that a suspect was in custody at 7:59 pm, a little over 1.5 hours later.
The FBI field operatives smiled. Egg applied as expected, it worked brilliantly.
Kash Patel couldnāt then turn to those who set him up with too much anger, because their defense was, āwe were questioning a suspect, we didnāt tell you to go public with it ā and as it turned out the suspect was cleared.ā
It was a brilliant maneuver, likely intended to undermine his authority and position. It worked perfectly.
Did you see Kash Patelās face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didnāt say a word at the microphone?
National media and DC political opposition now runs with the āincompetentā narrative, albeit rightly deservedbut for other bigger matters, and the leadership structure of the FBI is weakened.
The institutional elements in control pulled off a great hit.Well played FBI bad guys. Well played.
Perhaps, justperhaps, Director Patel will shift his position and recognize the scale of opposition inside the institution he keeps praising. [Although I doubt his ego will allow him to reset.]
Kash Patel has essentially neutered himself by falling prey to the most transparently obvious ploy of the intel operatives within the institution.
Now, the media has a narrative to enhance, and Director Patel is scheduled to be questioned in the Senate later this week. What comes next will be entirely the result of his own self harm.
Those Machiavellian FBI guys are cruel.
Every adverse operative within the FBI will be back channeling specific investigative information to the Democrat inquisitors in advance, so questions can be specifically formatted.
Whether he can see it or not, FBI Director Kash Patel is being set up by his own agency in collaboration with the Senate guards in DC.
Unfortunately, Kash Patel is now in a defensive mode trying to promote his image over the past 24-hours by retweeting positive articles about him as written by the sources he uses to deliver information, John Solomon (Tick-Tock) and Brooke Singman (Fox).
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