Submitted to the Washington Post

New FBI Director Kash Patel is not wasting any time making changes at the corrupt Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Confirmed last week by the Senate, Patel is the ninth Director of the FBI. He succeeds a corrupt Christopher Wray, who succeeded an equally corrupt James Comey. Trump nominated Patel to succeed Wray, citing his role in uncovering the Russia Hoax.

Laughably, two days before Patel’s confirmation hearing, 23 former Republican bureaucrats submitted a memo whining that Patel’s confirmation would be a “grievous mistake that would endanger the FBI’s integrity and compromise its critical mission. This is a vision of the FBI as an authoritarian weapon for pursuing Trump’s grievances.”

Integrity? There hasn’t been integrity in that office since at least the 1980’s. What do those “Republicans” think the FBI has been doing the last 24 years under Wray, McCabe, Comey, and Mueller? That circus was an authoritarian machine for pursuing grievances. This is the organization that was presided over for 48 years by the degenerate J. Edgar Hoover for crying out loud!

Then, to make the whole episode more bizarre, smarmy IL Senator Dick Durbin took time off from complaining about DOGE cost savings to shoot his mouth off about Patel in a letter to the inspector general of the Dept. of Justice.

“It is unacceptable for a nominee with no current role in government, much less at the FBI, to personally direct unjustified and potentially illegal adverse employment actions against senior career FBI leadership and other dedicated, nonpartisan law enforcement officers.”

Now would be a good time to point out Durbin has all the credibility of gas station sushi and is a career politicians for over 41 years.

Patel seems to be qualified for the job. We can only hope he will clean up the corruption and rot that has seeped into the bureau headquarters. However, there is good reason to watch to see how unbiased Patel can administer justice under Trump. It’s vital he proves Durbin and the Democrats wrong.

For now, we should be content to take Patel at his word.