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Democracy Docket: America Needs an Accountable FBI - And Deserves Better Than Kash Patel
Link: https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/america-needs-an-accountable-fbi-and-deserves-better-than-kash-patel/
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is the premier law enforcement agency in America and abroad. The FBI is an elite group of Americans who protect the United States from terrorism and domestic crimes. Additionally, it has the authority and responsibility to investigate many other violations of federal law.
Having now been confirmed, Director Kash Patel will only send the U.S. back into an era of John Edgar Hoover, applying shady tactics that Congress worked diligently to curtail over the past decades. FBI agents work long hours, many in hazardous locations around the world. They took an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution at home and abroad. These are the same agents that FBI Director Kash Patel swears led rioters into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Director Patel is an unqualified hardcore partisan with no senior law enforcement experience, and the fact that U.S. senators rubber-stamped a dangerously incompetent person to be in charge of our national security and public safety, speaks volumes to a keen lack of respect for the agents. Don’t take my word for it — Trump’s former Attorney General William Barr once recounted saying “over my dead body” referring to appointing the ethically-challenged Patel as director of the FBI, and former Vice President Mike Pence raised concerns over efforts to install Patel as the CIA Director in 2021.
Providing oversight to law enforcement is not an easy job. There will be opposition from either side of the fence on any decision you make. I was appointed to a small quasi-judicial office in Miami, where law enforcement is notorious for their cocaine cowboy days and a TV show known as “The First 48,” which demanded its own scandals.
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Having now been confirmed, Director Kash Patel will only send the U.S. back into an era of John Edgar Hoover, applying shady tactics that Congress worked diligently to curtail over the past decades. FBI agents work long hours, many in hazardous locations around the world. They took an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution at home and abroad. These are the same agents that FBI Director Kash Patel swears led rioters into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Director Patel is an unqualified hardcore partisan with no senior law enforcement experience, and the fact that U.S. senators rubber-stamped a dangerously incompetent person to be in charge of our national security and public safety, speaks volumes to a keen lack of respect for the agents. Don’t take my word for it — Trump’s former Attorney General William Barr once recounted saying “over my dead body” referring to appointing the ethically-challenged Patel as director of the FBI, and former Vice President Mike Pence raised concerns over efforts to install Patel as the CIA Director in 2021.
Providing oversight to law enforcement is not an easy job. There will be opposition from either side of the fence on any decision you make. I was appointed to a small quasi-judicial office in Miami, where law enforcement is notorious for their cocaine cowboy days and a TV show known as “The First 48,” which demanded its own scandals.
Author: Daniel Suarez is the former Deputy Inspector General of the Defense Health Agency, a 140,000 person agency, and was most recently the agency’s Liaison Officer at USAFRICOM, providing strategic advice and solutions for operational military health. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Modern Military Association of America.
Please read the rest on Democracy Docket.
