{"id":6412,"date":"2024-12-01T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2024-12-01T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T13:46:10","slug":"trump-picks-loyalist-kash-patel-to-head-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=6412","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump picks loyalist Kash Patel to head FBI<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6413\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-01-at-8.43.17-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-01-at-8.43.17-AM.png 590w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screen-Shot-2024-12-01-at-8.43.17-AM-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"context-widget__container__3fXK0 article-body__context_widget__1xxEe\" data-testid=\"ContextWidget\">\n<div class=\"context-widget__tabcontainer__7d2ES\">\n<h3><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"context-widget__content__1X4Oq\">\n<ul class=\"summary__summary__31feP\" data-testid=\"Summary\">\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf summary__point__NO-2F\" data-testid=\"Body\">Patel advocates for FBI restructuring<\/li>\n<li class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__base__22dCE body__small_body__2vQyf summary__point__NO-2F\" data-testid=\"Body\">Patel&#8217;s nomination may face opposition from Senate Democrats and some Republicans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Republican\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/donald-trump\/\" data-testid=\"Link\">President-elect Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0said on Saturday he wanted former National Security official and loyalist Kash Patel to lead the FBI, signaling an intent to drive out the bureau&#8217;s current director, Christopher Wray.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Patel, who during Trump&#8217;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&#8217;s agenda.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">&#8220;The biggest problem the FBI has had, has come out of its intel shops. I&#8217;d break that component out of it. I&#8217;d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state,&#8221; Patel said in a September interview on the conservative Shawn Ryan Show.<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;And I&#8217;d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You&#8217;re cops. Go be cops.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-picks-kash-patel-head-fbi-2024-12-01\/\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-picks-kash-patel-head-fbi-2024-12-01\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}