Kash Patel Issues Fiery Statement with a Dire Warning to America’s Enemies After Being Confirmed as FBI Director
by Cullen Linebarger, The GatewayPundit.com, February 20, 2025
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Kash Patel as America’s next FBI Director.
His confirmation did not come easily. Two of the Senate’s lead RINOs, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, voted against him, while every single Democrat voted no. Surprisingly, fellow RINO Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted yes.
The Senate broke the filibuster on Patel’s nomination in a 51-47 vote earlier on Thursday.
Now, Patel has released his first comments since his confirmation, and MAGA Nation will love them. His fiery statement should also send shivers down the spines of the Deep State and America’s enemies.
“I am honored to be confirmed as the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Patel wrote on X. “Thank you to President Trump and Attorney General Bondi for your unwavering confidence and support.”
Patel then vowed to end the two-tiered justice system the FBI has practiced for decades while vowing to be honest and transparent with the American people.
“The FBI has a storied legacy—from the “G-Men” to safeguarding our nation in the wake of 9/11. The American people deserve an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice,” he stated. “The politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust—but that ends today.”
“My mission as Director is clear: let good cops be cops—and rebuild trust in the FBI,” he added. “Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the Bureau and our partners, we will rebuild an FBI the American people can be proud of.”
Patel then sent a dire warning to those who seek to harm the American people.
“And to those who seek to harm Americans—consider this your warning,” he said. “We will hunt you down in every corner of this planet.”
“Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work.
With Patel in charge, America is in for an exciting ride these next four years.
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Report reveals that FBI spied on its likely new director, Kash Patel
By Paul Sperry Published Dec. 13, 2024, 1:54 p.m. ET
It’s going to be awkward at FBI headquarters next month when President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the bureau likely takes over.
According to a new government watchdog report, the FBI spied on its prospective new boss, Kash Patel.
Patel has promised to “clean house” at the Hoover Building, and hold all those who “abused their power” during the Russiagate “witch hunt” accountable.
He might start with the officials and agents who secretly vacuumed up his phone records and emails starting in late 2017, when he led a House Intelligence Committee investigation into the FBI’s reliance on Hillary Clinton’s false opposition research to surveil a Trump campaign official as a supposed “Russian agent.”
According to a nearly 100-page report by the Justice Department’s inspector general, the FBI subpoenaed the records as part of an investigation it opened to find out whether congressional staffers leaked classified information about its Trump-Russia “collusion” case to the Washington Post and other media.
Working with career prosecutors at Justice, the FBI compelled Google and Apple to turn over the sensitive private information of subjects the FBI identified “between September 2017 and March 2018,” a period when Andrew McCabe was the acting FBI director. (Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions was out of the loop, the report said, having recused himself from the Russia probe.)
The court orders gagged the service providers from notifying Patel and other customers of the intrusion.
As chief counsel, Patel had no idea that the subject of his investigation — the FBI — was collecting his data and increasing the visibility of witnesses he was communicating with, including whistleblowers.
At the time, Patel was demanding to see FBI documents and depose FBI witnesses to find out if the bureau had abused its power in obtaining a FISA warrant to spy on Trump aide Carter Page.
But Patel remained in the dark until 2022, when Google finally was cleared to send him a copy of the subpoena. Outraged, he told me at the time: “The FBI and DOJ subpoenaed my personal records while I caught them doing this to Page back in 2017.”
He said the McCabe FBI didn’t want anybody to find out that it “literally copied and pasted” Democrat opposition research, wholesale, into wiretap-warrant applications.
He added that he hoped those behind the abuses would be prosecuted by a future Trump administration: “They must be held accountable or they’ll only abuse their power again.”
The IG probe reveals that the FBI had renewed the subpoenas each year, snooping on congressional staffers for up to five years. That means McCabe’s successor, Christopher Wray, signed off on the continued collections.
Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz found the unprecedented surveillance created “at a minimum, the appearance of inappropriate interference” by the FBI in “legitimate oversight activity” by Congress. He warned that it could have a “chilling” effect on whistleblowers coming forward.
On Wednesday, the day after the IG report came out, Wray announced he would step down at the end of President Biden’s term, clearing the way for Trump nominee Patel to head the agency.
“This [IG] report highlights exactly why Kash Patel is the perfect leader to reform and rebuild the FBI,” a spokeswoman for Patel told The Post. “Kash understands the critical balance between national security and protecting civil rights [and] will work hand-in-hand with Congress to restore trust.”
