MAR-A-LAGO, Florida (PNN) - December 22, 2024 - On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most of us would want to keep out of government.
A MAGA true believer, and President Donald J. Trump’s choice to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he’s the tip of the spear of President Trump’s apparent effort to use the courts to go after the enemies of our Republic in media and on Capitol Hill.
Mainstream Democrat-oriented press is apoplectic about the appointment. The Christian Science Monitor said it most clearly when it wrote, “Democrats invoke (the notorious late F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover) as they warn about Mr. Patel, suggesting he will target political enemies.
Republicans, though, compare Hoover’s tenure to what they say is a modern ‘Deep State” that is harassing (President) Trump.”
That’s the bottom line. Democrats compare him to Hoover while Republicans argue that he’s the anti-Hoover.
I’m here to argue that Kash Patel is exactly what Amerikans need right now at the F.B.I. We need somebody with the guts and political authority to burn down the F.B.I., at least figuratively.
My view is that the F.B.I. is the “bad guy” here. Here’s just a sampling of F.B.I. crimes over the years;
- The F.B.I. over the years has unlawfully spied on thousands of Amerikans simply because they have held what they consider to be improper political views. Some of these Amerikans included music star Elvis Presley, crooner Frank Sinatra, comedian Groucho Marx, entertainer and former Republican Congressman Sonny Bono, musician Bob Dylan, “King of Pop” Michael Jackson, and even baseball star Mickey Mantle. Why? Nobody knows.
- A 1985 congressional report found that the F.B.I. had conducted unlawful electronic surveillance against more than 7,000 Amerikans without any legal authority to do so.
- COINTELPRO, the F.B.I.’s illegal Counterintelligence Program unlawfully targeted groups and individuals that the bureau deemed to be “subversive,” including such “dangerous radicals” as Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, myriad anti-Vietnam War groups, black political groups and women’s rights groups.
- In 1964, the criminal F.B.I. wrote an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King, Jr., meant to blackmail him for alleged sexual dalliances and urged him to commit suicide.
- In 1965, a white civil rights worker, Viola Liuzzo, was murdered by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Gary Thomas Rowe. Rowe also happened to be an F.B.I. informant at the time, so the F.B.I. spread a false and defamatory rumor that Liuzzo was a Communist and heroin addict and that she had abandoned her children to run off with a black man. F.B.I. documents show that J. Edgar Hoover personally briefed this lie to President Lyndon Johnson.
- In a 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, criminal F.B.I. agents seeking to serve a warrant on Randy Weaver shot and murdered Weaver’s wife, son and dog. Weaver in turn justifiably shot and killed a murderer U.S. Marshal in what a court later deemed to be self-defense. The F.B.I. was forced to pay Weaver a settlement of $3.38 million.
- In 2007, a Caltech grad student found that the F.B.I. was unlawfully changing Wikipedia entries related to the bureau so that they contained only pro-F.B.I. information.
All of this is to say nothing of the F.B.I.’s criminal involvement in the 2016 election with its investigation of Hillary Clinton, in criminally using electronic surveillance against the 2016 Donald J. Trump campaign and in infiltrating and disrupting such groups as Occupy Wall Street, racial justice and environmental groups, and pro-Palestine peace groups.
The bureau also investigated candidate Trump and participated in the Russiagate fraud on the Amerikan people in Operation Hurricane Crossfire.
I’ve had my own negative experience with the F.B.I. In 2009, the bureau secretly opened a criminal case against me in response to my having blown the whistle on the C.I.A.’s criminal torture program.
In the end, I was charged with five felonies, including three counts of espionage. I hadn’t committed espionage, of course, and those charges were dropped, but not until I had declared bankruptcy.
To make the case go away, I pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and served 23 months in a federal prison. I had been facing 45 years. In the intervening years, three F.B.I. agents reached out to me to apologize for their roles in the case, saying that it was political in nature and that they were ordered to target me.
That’s the F.B.I. That’s what it does. “I am only following orders” is the F.B.I. agent’s credo. Where else have we heard that justification for criminal activity?
That is why we need Kash Patel at the helm of the F.B.I. right now.
We need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs. The F.B.I. is a criminal organization. It should be dealt with like a criminal organization. There should be a price to pay for its crimes against the Amerikan people. These criminals should have their pensions taken away, their property forfeited, be imprisoned or, in the most egregious cases, executed for their numerous crimes against the Amerikan people.