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Summary

FBI Director Kash Patel, appointed by Donald Trump despite lacking law enforcement experience, has frustrated current and former FBI and DOJ officials with what they see as a lack of seriousness and professionalism.

Patel skipped or scaled back key briefings and ended routine field office meetings, citing leaks.

Critics cite a leadership void, public relations stunts, and excessive travel including multiple trips unrelated to work.

Patel also briefly led the ATF but was quietly replaced after being absent.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It may be intentional.

They seem to be pushing back against any congressional and judicial oversight. They are probably trying to make it so the executive branch doesn’t have to answer for anything including how the FBI uses money.

It certainly looks like they’re doing a soft setup for autocracy.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Everything they've done since Jan makes sense when viewed from the perspective that they never plan on facing consequences, accountability, or fair elections ever again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything also makes sense if viewed from the point of view of benefiting Russia.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Its not tin-foil hat, it's Putin. Its always Putin, using Skum and HitlerPig as his muscle.

When will people truly internalize that the two biggest foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, have partnered up with the most prolific traitor in American history? None of them have any loyalty or patriotism toward America, and only see us as a big, rich, fat, lazy target to be ruthlessly exploited and looted, and it's happening in real time before our eyes.

All they care about is money, and either Putin is paying them directly out of the Russian Treasury (HitlerPig would rape and murder his own mother for far less than a billion bucks, and Putin could order a lot more than that), or they've cut a deal to split the booty like the pirates they are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

All the evidence I've seen to date is shaky at best. The strongest evidence is how brazenly they have acted since taking office, indicating the type of confidence you'd expect after already successfully subverting democracy, but they've been already successfully subverted democracy for decades with the endless stream of disinformation and propaganda... I still haven't recovered from the migrant caravans or Obamas tan suit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Russia hacked in multiple times, mapped things out and coordinated attacks in swing states. Defcon started doing a whole village for voting machines after the first time and very few municipalities fixed anything. There still hasn't been a legitimate recount anywhere there should have been.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I'm well aware. I've read dozens of articles over 2 decades about the horrors of American e-voting. Every election since their intro could have already been used for fraud at some level, all the way to federal.

The problem is that there isn't some smoking gun to prove it, and there probably never will be. It's better to focus on the anti-democratic flaws in the entire system, especially oligarch/corporate control over politics through bribery — sorry, "donations" — and all other forms of corruption. Those are already proven.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think what we really need, short of direct action, is journalism. Journalists could find a smoking gun. There should be several. There should be physical ballots, records of destruction or missing ballots.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Read the first and last link. The Russian Tail is obvious. There's your smoking guns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would but I've never heard of either of those sources. Do you have any reputable sources? I would love to have some ammo to use against some MAGA relatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The first one is a newspaper in San Diego I believe the author linked the academic sources in the article, and the last link is a non profit foundation that was set up by a cybersecurity veteran, a data analyst, and a third academic. I don't know how to give you better sources than that.

MSM isn't going to breathe a word of this. They'll get taken off the air.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless he and his cronies are also bullet proof, stab proof, immune to poison, immune to radiation, and possess no flammable property, that doesn't seem like a very good plan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They think that when the revolution hits, they can use Peter Theil's spy tech to crush it, and then they will go full mask off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They will just be like well we didn't do a budget but need money we'll get it from doge don't worry about it