Meet the New FBI Boss. He Sued the Old Boss. And Got Laughed Out of Court (Rolling Stone on Kash Patel) [View all]

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/kash-patel-trump-fbi-wray-lawsuit-1235203312/

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Patel sued FBI director Wray, former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and other top deputies in the Department of Justice in 2023, alleging they violated his Fourth Amendment rights by issuing a subpoena for his private email data in 2017. Patel claimed this was a “retaliatory act” to dig up “dirt” on him during a time he was working for the House Intelligence committee, conducting work critical of the FBI and DOJ. The case, which received little scrutiny at the time, was dismissed this past September.

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Patel was the lead author of the so-called “Nunes memo.” This four-page brief purported to expose a partisan plot behind the surveillance of Carter Page, an aide to the first Trump campaign who had curious Kremlin contacts. The memo claimed that the issuance of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court subpoena relied too heavily on the salacious, now-notorious “Steele dossier,” which had been funded, indirectly, by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

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By his own account, Patel clashed with the DOJ personnel he had to interact with — he privately referred to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as “Hot Rod” (for a supposed quick temper) and believed Rosenstein “deserved to be taken down a peg.” Patel also describes installing a Mickey Mouse Club carpet in his team’s Capitol Hill office, to troll Democratic staffers who believed he was running a “Mickey Mouse” operation.

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During the period he worked for Nunes, Patel himself came under covert federal scrutiny. Patel’s complaint reveals that, in November of 2017, the government obtained a subpoena requiring Google to turn over data associated with Patel’s private email account. The legal proceedings do not make clear what prompted the issuance of the subpoena or what federal investigators may have been looking for.

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Those scattered snippets don't do justice to this article, which needs to be read in its entirety.

It adds to the picture of a paranoid, vengeful and childish man who can't be trusted with any responsibility and doesn't deserve any power. A man who will spend every second as FBI director - if, God forbid, he's confirmed - imagining and prosecuting plots against Trump, and also trying to get revenge for any perceived unfair treatment of himself.

Oh, and probably grifting. There must be more ideas for his ludicrous children's books fermenting nastily in his warped mind.

And more ideas about how he can photoshop his head onto the body of a leather-clad model in some ad.

Very sick individual.