Ex-FBI Official Flags Major ‘Problem’ With Trump’s Pick To Lead Agency | EUROtoday

An ex-FBI official on Sunday flagged a number of the reason why Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s controversial choose to be FBI director, might spell main hassle for his former company.

Frank Figliuzzi — who served as a former assistant director for counterintelligence on the FBI — informed MSNBC’s Jen Psaki that Patel, a fierce loyalist to the president-elect, needs to grind Trump’s ax ought to he have the chance to steer the company.

“If he now somehow interferes with FBI field office operations and management, you’re looking at a total hijacking of the federal law enforcement system,” Figliuzzi stated.

“That could concern everybody and as they’re pursuing Trump’s enemies, what are they not doing? Are they not working that violent gang? Are they not working the corrupt Republican mayor, congressman and governor in your city, state, county? That’s a problem.”

Figliuzzi’s response arrives after former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe slammed Trump’s alternative of Patel and referred to as him “profoundly unqualified” for the job.

Patel — who beforehand served as chief of employees to appearing Secretary of Defense Chris Miller in the course of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol — is a “deep state” conspiracy theorist who has vowed to shut the FBI’s D.C. headquarters to interchange it with a “deep state” museum.

Psaki, initially of her program, famous that Patel hasn’t been shy over his want to make use of instruments in federal legislation enforcement “to settle political scores for his boss.”

She then turned to a clip of Patel on the “Shawn Ryan Show” podcast naming quite a lot of former high-ranking authorities officers — some whom have been Trump picks — and claiming they did “a lot of rule and law-breaking.”

“What you have is a build-up of so many actions by the deep state that it becomes borderline treasonous to allow those people and their activities in a collective fashion ever to be applied to the United States,” Patel stated.

Figliuzzi, in his interview with Psaki, pointed to Patel’s vow to empty out the headquarters on “day one” and ship 1000’s of staff within the workplace “across America to go chase down criminals.”

“Now that makes for a great soundbite but it’s ignorant of the role that headquarters analysts and supervisors play in the 30,000-foot level view of the world,” Figliuzzi stated.

“You can’t just empty out headquarters, put everybody in the field and tell them to work homicides. … You lose your global intelligence capacity to see what’s going on in transnational crime, espionage, cyber crime across the world and on and on and on.”