How Kash Patel bungled a SEAL Team Six hostage rescue
“You could’ve gotten these guys killed!” a Pentagon official screamed at Patel.
Years before Donald Trump named him to run the FBI, Kash Patel was a prosecutor in the Obama Justice Department assigned to work with Delta Force and SEAL Team Six.
He told Vanity Fair that his job was to advise the elite operators as they went after “the global rack and stack of bad guys, determined the order, established find/fix/finish options, and then executed.”
A self-described “deep state” wrecking ball, Patel is fond of saying things like this that have made him a favorite of Trump’s MAGA base. However, during the first Trump administration, Patel’s actions revealed him as a bombastic fool who put SEAL Team Six in harm’s way through his ineptitude.
On October 30, 2020, President Trump signed off on a mission to have SEAL Team Six rescue Philip Walton, a 27-year-old American who gunmen had abducted from his farm in the West African nation of Niger, near the border with Nigeria. The kidnappers had hustled Walton into Nigeria and were demanding a $1 million ransom.
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