Trump Nominates Kash Patel to Lead FBI, by Douglas Andrew

The New York Times calls Kash Patel “a hard-line critic of the bureau who has called for shutting down the agency’s Washington headquarters, firing its leadership and bringing the nation’s law enforcement agencies ‘to heel.’”

MSNBC opinion writer Hayes Brown is equally alarmed, but more colorfully so: “Kash Patel as FBI director would be like if you crossed Alex Jones with J. Edgar Hoover, in terms of just how much he would want to ignore precedent and the constraints that have been put onto the FBI over the years.”

Or take disgraced former FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who opined, “The fact that Kash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even like a matter for debate.” …