Former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and GOP lawmaker from California Devin Nunes hailed President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of national security expert Kash Patel to head up the FBI during an interview over the weekend with Fox News host Mark Levin.
Nunes, the current CEO of Truth Social, Trump’s social media start-up, said that Patel is well aware of how the upper echelons of the FBI and broader Department of Justice, under which the bureau falls, have been politicized and corrupted over the last decade.
“Kash Patel is a reformer who will do things at the FBI that the entrenched ruling class does not want him to do,” Levin said before swinging it over to Nunes.
“Yes, and I think most importantly with that, he knows how they do it. He knows how the DOJ and how the FBI corrupted the whole damn place. That’s the advantage he has, and that’s why they don’t want him in there,” Nunes said.
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“And I will just go furthermore, I think this brings an important component that I don’t think we’ve in an FBI director before,” he added. “Kash served at the beginning of his career on the