The Perfect Choice

“If you didn't want Kash Patel to be FBI director, you shouldn't have orchestrated the Russia collusion hoax.”

This tweet Hans sent after Kash was selected encapsulates the crux of the matter. Of course, Kash is not your typical FBI director—at least not in the sense of the past three directors, who were all apparatchik lawyers with deep ties to the Washington, D.C. establishment. However, Kash is the ideal choice for this moment, which, above all, demands honesty and fearlessness.

If it hadn’t been for the FBI’s rampant corruption, lawfare, and endless lies—not only related to Russiagate but also targeting parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists, the events of January 6, including infiltration by FBI informants, spying on congressional staffers, including Kash himself, and much more—Kash would not be the nominee for FBI director today. However, these events did occur, and they position Kash as the ideal candidate for an agency that has become corrupted to its very core.

One of our greatest frustrations—and the primary motivation for writing this article—is the fabricated portrayal of Kash, particularly by legacy media. It is widely assumed that he was some kind of low-level parking ticket enforcement officer who somehow stumbled into Trump’s orbit and has now been chosen solely for his loyalty.

It is predictably disheartening that this perception is so widespread, as it could not be further from the truth. Kash is not only the ideal candidate for the job because he is an honest man who will not try to bring down President Trump like FBI directors James Comey and Christopher Wray did, but also because his entire career has prepared him for this moment. He possesses extensive and relevant experience in all matters related to the FBI, insight into the intricacies of the system, as well as intimate knowledge of where all the bodies are buried. President Trump could not have chosen a better person for the task at hand.

We had the opportunity to see Kash up close over the past few years when we all hosted concurrent shows on Epoch TV. Before delving into that experience and what we learned from it, let us take a brief look at Kash’s biography.

He is a first-generation Indian American. However, while the media loves to celebrate milestones, there is a conspicuous absence of any mention of the “first Indian American FBI director nominee.” Incidentally, the same applies to Jay Bhattacharya, the first Indian American nominee for NIH director.

Kash graduated from Pace University School of Law before obtaining a postgraduate degree in law from one of the world's top universities, the highly esteemed University College London. So for starters, the snide commentary about Kash not being from an Ivy League institution—an irrelevant categorization in the first place—is just plain false. Kash then spent nearly a decade working as a public defender, a role that is often thankless and lacks glamour, yet is probably the most crucial job in the entire legal system. Unfortunately, the media rarely discusses this aspect of his career. Furthermore, they tend to overlook the fact that after serving as a public defender, Kash was recruited by the Department of Justice’s National Security Division. In this capacity, he not only prosecuted terrorism cases but also served as the legal liaison to the Joint Special Operations Command. It is worth emphasizing that if anyone else had such an impressive resume, they would be celebrated by the media as one of the most qualified individuals ever to be nominated for the position of FBI director.

It’s exactly this point—Kash’s background and experience—that brings us to the reason for the intense hatred directed toward him. Contrary to media-fuelled misconceptions, Kash was not merely a random guy working in Congressman Devin Nunes’ office who accidentally became involved in the Russiagate investigation. In fact, he had nothing to do with that office until Nunes started to actively seek out a highly qualified person to lead the Russiagate investigation. To reiterate: The House Intelligence Committee, under Devin Nunes, needed to identify someone capable of overseeing what was undoubtedly the most significant congressional investigation in history, and the individual they selected for that crucial role was Kash Patel.

It was in his role as lead investigator for the House Intelligence Committee that Kash made some of the most significant breakthroughs in the entire Russiagate saga. Kash quickly recognized that the key to unraveling the case lay in the financial transactions, specifically the payments made to and received by the Clinton campaign operatives at Fusion GPS. He engaged in a lengthy legal battle to subpoena Fusion's bank records. This was no small feat, especially considering that Paul Ryan, a staunch Trump critic, was the Speaker of the House. However, Kash prevailed, and, just as he had anticipated, the financial trail revealed that Christopher Steele had been paid by the Clinton campaign. In other words, the foundation of the entire Russia collusion narrative—Steele being the sole individual to explicitly and unequivocally allege Trump-Russia collusion—was based on fabricated claims from a Clinton campaign operative.

But Kash wasn’t finished. While he understood that the FBI would move heaven and earth to conceal the corrupt origins of its Russia collusion investigation, he also knew that the truth could be indirectly revealed by examining the employment record of the FBI’s chief Russia collusion investigator, Peter Strzok. Once again, Kash was proven correct. Unbeknownst to nearly everyone, Strzok had faced internal disciplinary action. This revelation raised an obvious question: why was he disciplined? Eventually, Kash discovered that it was related to Strzok’s text messages. After further pressure, this time with the assistance of Congress, the FBI finally released part of Strzok's text message archive on December 12, 2017. In other words, it was directly due to Kash's efforts that we learned about the “insurance policy,” about Strzok referring to Trump as an “idiot” and a “douche,” and Strzok promising his FBI girlfriend that he would stop Trump, among many other details that have already been extensively reported and need not be revisited here.

Another significant finding attributed to Kash is the revelation that dirty dossier author Christopher Steele was terminated as an FBI source for communicating with the media. More crucially, it was Kash who discovered that the FBI continued to maintain contact with Steele through a high-ranking DOJ official, Bruce Ohr. When Kash confronted Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was overseeing the Russia collusion investigation, Rosenstein outright denied it. Later, through Kash's relentless persistence, a dozen FBI 302 forms were uncovered, detailing Ohr’s many briefings to the FBI in which he relayed information directly from Steele.

Kash was also one of the principal authors of the so-called Nunes memo, the February 2018 House Intelligence Committee report that unveiled the entire Russia collusion scam. It was Kash's responsibility to brief FBI Director Wray on the memo. Wray, evidently eager to distance himself from the growing scandal, quickly referred Kash to the FBI’s Associate General Counsel, Sally Moyer, who happened to be the direct supervisor of FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith.

Most readers will likely recall that Clinesmith fabricated critical evidence against Trump campaign aide Carter Page that allowed for Page’s FISA Surveillance. Incidentally, Clinesmith remains the only individual held legally accountable for the Russiagate scandal, although he escaped any real repercussions for his actions.

After the conclusion of the House Intelligence Committee investigation, Kash served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council. To emphasize the lengths that anti-Kash operatives go to depict him as a grandstander who never held significant positions, just the other day former National Security Advisor John Bolton falsely claimed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Kash was never the Senior Director for Counterterrorism. He was.

In his subsequent role, which many Trump supporters will remember fondly, Kash became the Principal Deputy to the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI). In simpler terms, Kash and Richard Grenell were tasked with reforming the DNI office. During this period, we witnessed some of the most crucial document releases in the entire Russiagate saga, including the long-sought transcript of the conversation between Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Michael Flynn, which proved Flynn’s innocence, as well as documents that directly implicated John Brennan, Obama’s CIA Director, in the Russiagate plot. Kash’s final position in the Trump administration was as Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

As mentioned earlier, we had an up-close look at Kash during our time at Epoch TV, and several noteworthy points stand out that we should highlight here. First, Kash is a multifaceted individual. Just because he speaks with great authority about Russiagate does not mean he lacks similar knowledge about other issues; quite the contrary. For instance, Kash is one of the more knowledgeable and outspoken individuals regarding the Wuhan lab leak. He also had no qualms about challenging the Intelligence Community, as demonstrated when he revealed that then-CIA Director Gina Haspel paid off CIA analysts to change their Covid origin assessment from a lab leak to a natural origin.

Kash is quite unusual in the world of politics because he lacks the typical filter we have all become accustomed to. He always answers directly, without playing games. If he knows the answer and is able to provide it, he will do so. He calls a spade a spade, regardless of the potential fallout. To be clear, this does not mean he has a loose tongue; quite the contrary. He has proven to be extraordinarily discreet and meticulous regarding classified information. If something is classified, he will not discuss it—full stop.

The difference with Kash compared to others is that if the information is not classified, he won’t attempt to confuse you with vague references to “sources and methods” and similar jargon. Instead, he will simply state the facts, even if it is not politically expedient. For example, in September 2018, President Trump tweeted that he would declassify all documents related to the Russia investigation, only to make a sudden U-turn, blaming foreign allies. Kash saw right through this. As he explained in Lee Smith’s seminal book, The Plot Against the President, this was an excuse fabricated by establishment operatives—according to Kash, particularly Rosenstein—to prevent Trump from revealing the deep state’s secrets. And soon it will be Kash’s turn to reveal those secrets for all to see.

Kash is honest, indomitable and possesses vast experience. He understands the facts in granular detail, and knows where the bodies are buried. Don’t listen to the lies from the establishment. Kash Patel is the perfect choice for FBI director.