More on Kash Patel and the SEAL Team Six hostage rescue
The story of a 2020 hostage rescue explains why so many cabinet secretaries felt the man Trump picked to run the FBI was a danger.
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Kash Patel has said a lot of things unbefitting an FBI director.
It’s one thing to declare on a podcast that you’re going to “come after” journalists or blurt out the FBI “brazenly rigged the 2020 election” in a social media post that you can later claim was “taken out of context,” a phrase that appears 18 times in Patel’s written responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It’s a different matter—and one that Patel will consistently encounter if he’s confirmed as FBI director—when his words have life-or-death implications.
This is why I’ve been paying attention to how Patel has handled questions about his bungling of a SEAL Team Six resc…