WASHINGTON ¨C President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday said he wanted former national security official and firebrand loyalist Kash Patel to lead the FBI, signaling an intent to drive out the bureau¡¯s current director, Christopher Wray.
Patel, who during Trump¡¯s first term advised both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense, has previously called for stripping the FBI of its intelligence-gathering role and purging its ranks of any employee who refuses to support Trump¡¯s agenda.
¡°The biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I¡¯d break that component out of it. I¡¯d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state,¡± Patel said in a September interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show.
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