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Trump’s FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do (apnews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state,’” Patel said in a September interview on the “Shawn Kelly Show.” “Then, I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops — go be cops.”

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It really seems that the next four years that USA will be run by clueless ignorant idiots.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Only the next 4 years?

How optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's enough time to mount a revolution, no?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Normally you'd hope basic bureaucracy would impede this, but it sounds like they realised that from the first time round and will immediately focus on dismantling existing bureaucracy and putting in their own that will aid them now and impede future governments that aren't them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Section 702 of FISA has been abused to hell and back and needs to be either reformed or completely gotten rid of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like a great way to "disappear" before day 1.