FBIs Kash Patel must make good on promise to reform the bureau or it will be just another hollow sound bite
New FBI Director Kash Patel promised “a complete and total annihilation of the weaponization of justice and the politicization of intelligence” when he spoke at a law and order event at the Department of Justice Friday.“We have a new FBI, and I’m humbled to be its leader,” he said.A lot rests on Patel being able to make good on his promise to reform the bureau, and as a former public defender, national security prosecutor and counterterrorism official in the first Trump administration, there is nobody more qualified and clear-eyed about the challenge.But his promise requires that the injustices of the past inside the FBI are remedied, or they will remain a festering sore.Among the many honorable agents railroaded by the FBI during Joe Biden’s corrupt presidency is Zach Schoffstall.The former Idaho senior FBI supervisory agent had his career destroyed after 16 years of exemplary service because he refused to do the political bidding of the Biden administration and sign off on unconstitutional search warrants in a trumped-up domestic-terrorism prosecution.“I brought embarrassment to the bureau,” he says.So, he was demoted, suspended and finally fired last year.Schoffstall was a victim of the Biden administration’s perverse political agenda to classify “white supremacy” as the biggest terrorist threat to America.With an eye on the 2024 election, Joe Biden’s aim was to demonize Donald Trump and his supporters as an existential threat to democracy by falsely characterizing the Jan.
6, 2021, Capitol riot as a white supremacist domestic terrorism attack.So, when a group of 31 young Patriot Front members were arrested in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on June 11, 2022, en route to protest an LGBTQ parade, activist attorneys in the DOJ seized on the chance to prosecute a quintessential case of Trump-aligned extremism to bolster their narrative.The only problem was that the Patriot Front guys had done nothing wrong.Two local FBI agents refused to sign a sea...