New FBI Director Kash Patel promised “a complete and total annihilation of the weaponization of justice and the politicization of intelligence” when he spoke at a law-and-order event at the Department of Justice on Friday.
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“We have a new FBI, and I’m humbled to be its leader,” he said.
A lot rests on Patel being able to make good on his promise to reform the bureau, and as a former public defender, national security prosecutor and counterterrorism official in the first Trump administration, there is nobody more qualified and clear-eyed about the challenge.
But his promise requires that the injustices of the past inside the FBI are remedied, or they will remain a festering sore.
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