Kash Patel Faces Scrutiny Amid Capture of Kirk’s Assassin
“This tragedy was not part of a scripted, one-hour TV crime show, yet was brought to a logical conclusion within a 48-hour time period.”
The media is split over how to cover FBI Director Kash Patel’s handling of the Charlie Kirk assassination investigation. ABC News cast Patel as reckless, citing his premature statement that a suspect was in custody:
“Hours after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, FBI Director Kash Patel declared online that ‘the subject’ in the killing was in custody. The shooter was not.”
Critics, including former FBI officials, called it a damaging misstep that fueled public confusion.
But another picture emerges from Just the News, where law enforcement experts praised Patel’s unorthodox choice to override hesitation inside the bureau and release security photos of the shooter early:
“Piehota and other law enforcement experts credited FBI Director Kash Patel’s insistence to release security footage photos of the alleged killer — well before police had an inkling of his identity — as the linchpin that harnessed the power of public crowd-sourcing to solve the case.”
That decision led to a stunning turnaround. Within 33 hours of Kirk’s killing, the suspect, Tyler Robinson, was in custody. Retired FBI Executive Assistant Director Chris Piehota called the pace “remarkable”:
“This tragedy was not part of a scripted, one-hour TV crime show, yet was brought to a logical conclusion within a 48-hour time period.”
The contrast with another recent high-profile shooting is striking. When UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in Manhattan late last year, it took authorities five days under the Biden administration to capture Luigi Mangione, the gunman. By comparison, Patel’s FBI oversaw Robinson’s capture in just over a day.
The debate over Patel’s judgment underscores the tension inside the FBI itself. Some argue the photo release proved crowd-sourcing can accelerate justice; others believe Patel’s public misstep undermined trust.
Patel tweeted several tweets defending himself against the criticisms.
Against all law enforcement recommendations, we demanded the video footage and enhanced stills of the suspect be released to the public.
Robinson’s father, who ultimately turned him in to authorities, told law enforcement that he recognized his son in that released video. pic.twitter.com/nCwEso3vth
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 13, 2025
A viral post captured Patel’s own framing of events, which the FBI Director as retweeted:
Operational decisions matter. pic.twitter.com/qM5GWKdEWq
— Erica Knight (@_EricaKnight) September 13, 2025
In the end, ABC highlights Patel’s missteps while Just the News emphasizes his calls. Whether the director’s actions inspire confidence or raise new doubts is a judgment the public, and Congress at this week’s hearings, will have to make.
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What a load of horse manure. Are people so dense they don’t realize how reality works? I’d rather know they were looking at people than hear nothing until they announce a final arrest. And announcing that the person was not the shooter after all was right, too. We were being kept INFORMED.
I swear, people really do think CSI was a documentary, and get angry if reality doesn’t work like scripted fiction.
The usually spoon fed legacy media and the lemmings in their audience can’t seem to get a handle on actual transparency being the order of the day with the Trump 2.0 WH. A ‘suspect’ is someone under suspicion not a definitive declaration that X did it. Releasing the video images after making sure they were relevant to the investigation and weeding through evidence, narrowing down to that video was absolutely good Police work that seems by all accounts to have directly led to the arrest of the murderer.
If Patel really slipped up and said “subject” instead of “suspect,” I can see where this created a wedge for his haters to exploit. Hey, sometimes what comes out of your mouth isn’t the word you meant to grab, nobody knows this better than I do. (You guys get treated to my writing — if you had to put up with my speaking, you’d go bonzo.)
At least it wasn’t… you know, the thing — which to them was all “This is fine” for four whole years.
“Subject” was the correct term used by Patel.
I ain’t no lawyerman but even I know the legal difference between ‘subject’ and ‘suspect’. It’s the MSM – including right-siders like NYPost and NewsMax – that utterly fail to distinguish the two.
Even then a ‘subject’ isn’t the same as ‘we got the guy who committed murder’. Folks who are upset at transparency in the investigation and every lead not panning out need to chill. If they are disappointed then they should stop getting their hopes up every time a more transparent FBI leadership gives an update and makes a disclosure.
IMO this episode is another example of folks rushing to frame the latest ‘thing’ in the manner they want it to be v what it really is or ultimately shown to be and then are disappointed and/or frustrated when their self imposed expectations are not met. So called ‘conservatives’ have a real blind spot on this kind of thing. How many times do they hear some lefty/moderate public figure say one thing they agree with and suddenly ‘adopt’ them as one of our own without any hesitation or exploration of the context only to be disappointed/upset at this person’s ‘betrayal’ of ‘conservative principles’ when they don’t follow up by agreeing to every conservative policy preference?
I was one of those people that was ticked-off. Yes, it was good that he kept us informed, but he should have been cautious as to the language that he used, instead of directly implying that they had the shooter in custody.
It was an initial screw-up, plain and simple.
Agreed.
Look up the definition of the word “suspect”
Since you want to play this childish game, look up the definition of the, as in the suspect.
Do you understand?
Or shall I dumb it down even more for you….
Look up the quote.
You made assumptions.
See my post above
Have you seen the video of he arrest of the “suspect”? The guy was claiming he did it and asking to be shot. I don’t think Kash needs to be criticized for this.
This isn’t about George Zinn.
It’s about someone else entirely.
So Mr. I’m always right, what harm was done? How many times has Trump made a statement that turned out to be false of wrong? mHow many times have you been wrong? Maybe the person he trusts the most in the FBI told hi it was the guy? Maybe the locals told him it was the guy. If you were at a murder and someone confessed right away that happened to be there, would you not think it was the guy? How does it feel to be on the side of the msm? Any little flaw must be blown totally out of proportion to make any of Trump’s team look bad. Next you can go after Bondi and then Kennedy, or maybe Hegseth. Remember when the msm went after Pete? Were you part of that too?
You’re not even aware that the person this discussion is about, is someone other than Howard Zinn, and you’re accusing me of being an uninformed leftist?
GFY
Yes people are stupid and armchair every little thing from their comfortable unaccountable position. People in this comment section are doing it right now.
Director Patel did fine. Lead, follow, or get out of the way…
That is directed to Director Patel’s critics and the lamestream media lackies.
There really isn’t anything that the vile, stupid, dishonest, subversive and evil Dhimmi-crats/leftists won’t criticize.
Nothing is ever good enough for them. They exist to spew contrived, perpetual and dishonest alleged grievance, victimhood, complaints, outrage, etc.
I’m surprised that conservatives don’t characterize leftists and Dhimmi-crats more forcefully, in this regard — a malignant, cancerous and evil group of perpetual complainers, agitators, subversives, saboteurs and nihilists.
When was the last time that a prominent Dhimmi-crat apparatchik effusively and enthusiastically praised the U.S., without equivocation, parsing and recrimination? Maybe JFK? We’re talking at least 62-plus years ago.
I should clarify that JFK was a Democrat; not a Dhimmi-crat, and also that he’d be a Republican, today.
The 70s saw a major transition in the dramacrat party. Blacks and women started playing more prominent roles. That party lurched to the left, Their conservative branch was purged, Since then that party has continued to move to the left. They are now full on progressive/socialists and they seem to hate this country, its culture, its history, and its people.
Very true observation.
What? You mean, not Michelle’s proclamation that it wasn’t until her husband got elected president that she had her first positive feeing about the USA?
Democrats have this obsession to show the public why they deserve to be rejected.
I’ve never worked in law enforcement, so I don’t possess the expertise to know if Patel was a good or bad pick. But, I have seen enough of the behavior of now countless FBI agents the last decade to understand there is no shortage of agents who are constantly working to undermine and embarrass Trump at every opportunity. The Bureau really is a viper’s den for any GOP administration.
It appears that the Salt Lake FBI kept photos of suspect from Patel for 12 hours.
I don’t care if they think his methods were wrong or not. If true that is gross insubordination and those who made the decision should be fired.
My belief is that they are career Democrat loyalists who are doing everything they can to sabotage Patel and Trump. Business as usual for them.
Patel missed out by not firing them on the spot, as an example to others. Can it be he still underestimates the viper’s den he’s been put in charge of?
There is nothing easier than making a boss you don’t like look bad. Slow walk something, pass up the chain that so and so says we got him when no arrests have been made for the sole purpose of letting him make erroneous statements, looking like he is left out of the loop etc.
Patel has gone out of his way publicly to reinforce that most of the FBI personnel are quality agents, yet some that have proven over and over they aren’t, keep popping up.
FWIW, I just saw this posted by the NY Post. This is GREAT news and tells me that Patel has a firmer hand than I feared he might not.
“Charlie Kirk assassination investigation widens to probe whether pro-trans, online groups knew in advance”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/14/us-news/charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation-widens-to-probe-pro-trans-online-groups/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
Accessories before the fact.
We’ve already seen the tweet where the tranny posted to watch tomorrow because something big would happen.
We’ve already seen the Amazon posting for a phony book about the Charlie Kirk shooting and its “aftermath” dated the day before the shooting (really posted about four hours after the shooting, but you’d still need some real hustle to get a product posting that complicated online within four hours if you had no advance warning).
We’ve had reports that the rifle was left near the scene for the shooter to pick up before the shooting and was possibly left in the woods to return it the same way (which I don’t put a lot of stock in for several unrelated reasons).
We know this crowd can’t keep their mouths shut, and chronically overreach.
We know there were two red herring suspects in the crowd who were almost surely plants.
We know that the audience questioner at the time of the shot was asking a much-too-convenient question.
This is a superb avenue of investigation.
According to Aaron Sibarium, a reporter for the Free Breacon, the FBI is all over it. There were no less than 7 different social media accounts with postings that demonstrated a foreknowledge of the attack. The FBI is currently working through those accounts.
https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1967568445836554498
Those teams have been murdering people for YEARS!
It isn’t rocket science to connect the dots
Maybe even our FBI is capable of it
I just read a nasty piece on The Gateway Pundit that claims Patel was hiding the identity of the killer’s tranny lover. It is total BS but the number of people who have jumped on the anti-Patel bandwagon tells me it is a planned lie put out to separate us from each other. The FBI was already investigating his lover and the tranny network he is a member of two weeks before the assassination. So we know the story is a lie. He could have tried to protect the guy’s identity for investigative purposes. Be careful when you read things that make any Trump admin people look bad, it’s probably a plant.
This is a handy way to vet the suckers on this site that dwell among us and share our views. Some of them are easily duped and jump at a moment’s notice when their masters say go.
The Gateway Pundit is a garbage site.
“…others believe Patel’s public misstep undermined trust.”
Those ‘others’ can go feff themselves.
We are well into the viral digital age of social media. The ‘others’ are simply mad because our side used it to our advantage for an outcome beneficial to our side.
Those ‘others’ can go feff themselves.
I really don’t like Patel, he seems unserious and often not professional
I wasn’t upset he released the photos, in the end, good thing he did,
But he also gave the FBI the props for his capture when it was his dad who turned him in.
Would anyone else have , given time? I don’t know, but his dad was courageous in doing probably the most horrible thing a parent must do and that was to turn his oldest son in to probably face the death penalty
If his dad hadn’t reacted so swiftly, we have no idea what he would have done , his roommate, who had to be in the planning at least and maybe the group of trans genders across this country that are murdering people… maybe now they can be caught, all of them
And there are many
Did the photos that were released figure into his father’s actions?
I believe that several people who knew Tyler recognized him. At least one of those persons contacted Tyler’s dad.
Of course it did! How else would he have known
Certainly his son didn’t call him up to brag
On the other hand, I can recall several young perps whose parents heard about an assassination and immediately feared it was their kid, because they felt that things had been off. The kid who shot Trump’s ear was one of them.
Seems to me he mentioned both in his tweet above:
“Against all law enforcement recommendations, we demanded the video footage and enhanced stills of the suspect be released to the public.
Robinson’s father, who ultimately turned him in to authorities, told law enforcement that he recognized his son in that released video.”
I think you’re being grossly unfair in your assessment of Patel.
What is your factual basis for calling Patel “unserious” and “not professional?”
Patel is trying to clean up decades of Dhimmi-crat institutional corruption and moral rot at FBI — decades worth. This is a Herculean task.
To me, he is an exponential improvement over the wretched, greasy and corrupt Christopher Wray. #47 picked Patel for some very good reasons.
Patel is a choice with pristine intentions but did not come up the LEO ranks.
Sometimes a person with those credentials can sweep in and clean house, as Musk did with X.
More often, they can be “played” as figureheads by crooked underlings who know all the tricks, as happened at Purdue Pharma or Enron.
Historically, the difference seems to be how ruthless they are at slashing out the rot they have inherited. Musk was vicious, and carved all the way down to the line employees. Patel has canned a few troublemakers high in management, but is clinging to his “morale enhancing” story of the FBI being basically a fine bunch of people. It’s totally my opinion, but I think he’s overdoing the optimism and unless he changes his tune, he’s going to have a bad time ahead of him.
I think Patel is terribly unaware of how seriously dangerous the rank and file can be, uh, make that ARE. I wonder if he fails to recognize those individuals’ serious dedication to their continuing cause, or if he believes he can say nice things and eventually turn them. Either way, I think he will be limited during his tenure. Even if later judged “successful,” he will not have been as successful as he might have been if he had taken care of the internal rot.
Fair concerns, but, I assume you’d admit that you’re not privy to private meetings of FBI brass, correct? You don’t know what what’s going on, behind the scenes, or, at high-level meetings. All that you have to go on is Patel’s public pronouncements.
My belief is that Patel is making some diplomatic statements, publicly, in order to be more effective in cleaning house, behind closed doors.
I think Patel deserves the benefit of the doubt, here, given that he has #47’s trust.
OMG
Did you see him on l Rogan? Have you seen him or listened to his interviews?
He is in serious, wants to be known and cool
Wants people to like him
He hasn’t got the gravitas
No, I haven’t seen those interviews. “Gravitas” is a totally subjective trait, based on one’s perception, and, frankly, it’s irrelevant to the role at issue.
Patel wasn’t chosen as FBI chief to be a public speaker with “gravitas” — he was chosen for his legal acumen and constitutional fidelity.
It’s not irrelevant because Patel basis some of his decisions on lack there of
And please do watch his interview on Rogan
Just for a starter
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0VDV6g5uAyfuS4DBX48jkM?si=JDWUYEEhTly9sIwFWh60oA
“Would anyone else have , given time?”
Almost certainly. It wasn’t his dad who recognized the photos in the first place, it was someone who knew the dad, and decided to contact him first. If his dad had done nothing, there’s a reasonable chance the original reporter would have called the FBI himself.
Your making assumptions and a lot could have happened in between
Alot
Stromboli CTH vlog
“First of all, he ( Patel) was eating at an exclusive Washington DC restaurant on the night that Charlie Kirk was murdered. He was tweeting messages from the restaurant that the killer had been caught. Only to retract it later. His presence on X was completely disconnected from what was happening in real life.
On top of that, apparently the Utah FBI office was withholding information from him. Basically, they were insubordinate to him. They withheld the photo of the killer for 12 hours, allowing the suspect add’l time to further escape authorities.
Lastly, he claimed that the FBI caught the killer within in 36 hours of the crime. In actuality, it was only because family members turned him in”
In fairness, family members/close known associates/friends are responsible for a significant number of arrests. The Luigi case was a stone-cold whodunnit. NYPD had nothing to go on other than that photo, which they smartly released to the media within hours of the murder. That was the only reason he was captured days later; patrons at a McDonalds recognized him from the photo. What we didn’t know at the time is as that was happening, the family had already reached out to law enforcement. Luigi’s own mother recognized him in the photo.
Most famously, the FBI spent literal decades and hundreds of millions hunting the Unabomber with NOTHING to show for it. It was until a handful of agents finally convinced DOJ to publish the manifesto did anything happen. The Unabomber’s brother recognized the writing style immediately and contacted authorities. That was the only reason he was captured: family.
Patel’s “see you in Valhalla” comment in reference to Kirk was pretty weird. The Internet responded with a photoshopped image of Patel wearing a horned Viking helm, instantly triggering cognitive dissonance in viewers.
The right has enough to deal with without unforced errors of its own making.
Don’t be a child. It’s clearly a reference to the fact that Charlie was a warrior in his own right.
Oh no Patel isn’t a Christian now the right has a freak out about it. You all are tough to deal with sometimes.
I suspect that “Patel isn’t a Christian” is why quite a few on the right distrust and dislike him.
What part of a Hindu referencing an antique Scandinavian pagan religion are Christians upset about?
Don’t be a child. No one’s freaking out about it. They’re laughing at it.
See comment block before you say no one.
Already did. Having an opinion you don’t agree with isn’t freaking out. Work on your reading comprehension. My comment had nothing to do with Christianity, yet you reflexively felt the need to mention it.
Deflect all you want, but the thought of Kash Patel sitting at a table full of Vikings in Valhalla is fake and ghey, which is why the Internet rightfully ridiculed it.
Ironic considering there are people in this comment section crying about the Valhalla comment and saying he’s unfit for office. You know that reading comprehension can extend beyond just one comment thread on this block, right?
No one’s crying. You exaggerate like a liberal woman. I read the whole thread.
You don’t think there are Christian warriors?
Ever hear of the Crusade?
Patel is not a Christian. That’s okay.
But he k ew Charlie was very much so is the point
“Unforced errors?” The “Valhalla” remark was a totally innocuous comment, praising a murdered ally.
Your hyper-sensitive and overwrought critique of this comment is exactly the kind of obsessive and dishonest obsessiveness that the vile Dhimmi-crats engage in.
Your analysis is not credible, rational or objectively logical.
Patel is too worried about being cool and doesn’t have the chops to be head of the FBI
Throw Bondi in there also
If Trump doesn’t dump these two, I hope Vance has better picks as AG and FBI
I really don’t know what he was thinking with these 2
By the way Patel, Charlie was a devout Christian , not a Viking Asatro
What is the factual basis for this accusation, “Patel is too worried about being cool?”
Seriously — you’re making these incredibly pat and presumptuous statements criticizing Patel — what’s your factual basis for doing so?
Patel worries me by his continuing insistence that an organization that is far from a great bunch of guys, are a great bunch of guys. He needs to check his water cooler for Kool-Aid.
Just go back and listen to his interviews, watch him
Dear God
You apparently have not watched or listened to this man since he took office
Clearly
There would have been more faux outrage had it been a protected minority. We aren’t allowed to talk about them committing crimes any more because we apparently can’t tell the difference in how individuals look and that makes minorities feel unsafe.
BTW the photo release in this case DIRECTLY lead to the father confronting his son and handing him over. It can’t really be argued whether it worked in this case.
It clearly did. As I said in another thread, I’m very interested to see the timeline spelled out in either an indictment or the preliminary hearing (whichever happens in Utah) because I think there’s some chance the family didn’t do anything until someone from outside the family called the father and alerted them to the ‘resemblance’ of the surveillance footage. That might have been the boyfriend, or it may have been someone else. That photo was released in the early morning. The father didn’t call police until 2200 or 2300, later that day. What were they doing for 12-hours?
I’m going to argue that it’s perfectly reasonable that the father just hadn’t SEEN the photos. Just because they were released to the Internet doesn’t mean he viewed them immediately. (Heaven knows, I don’t even notice some voice mails until one or two days later.) Maybe he just had no inclination to follow the Charlie Kirk story, any more than I followed the Enron or Solyndra stories.
I haven’t seen the “unexpurgated” videos of either Charlie or Iryna myself. I attempted to view them, but they’re both on X, which says I have to login first to prove I’m an adult, and I don’t keep an X account. So not everybody is as connected as everybody else is.
The father said that he saw his son when the photos were released and confronted him about it. Then he got him to turn himself in.
That position would be reasonable if we didn’t have other facts that say otherwise.
Back when law enforcement actually worked well, we had things like dragnets and wanted posters, and newspaper articles about who the public should be on the lookout for, with actual photos (or even artists’ renderings) if available. We weren’t terrified of disclosing their race, sex, or ancestry for fear of being called bigots. If the perp left a manifesto for the public to read after the event, we printed it for the public to read, without worrying how that might affect a future jury. (Hey, he WROTE IT for them.) Maybe we can learn from the past.
It’s not even that far in the past to release suspect descriptions and photos. This is a development that has happened just in the last few years it seems, and it is really, really stupid.
I’m convinced that whoever is in charge of NOT releasing details out of fear of PC backlash is exactly who shouldn’t be making leadership decisions.
Many people, including some here, don’t understand how investigations work and they’re criticizing the FBI and local police, claiming they didn’t do anything because the father turned his son in. Guess what morons….it went down exactly as it should have. After a crime, law enforcement gathers evidence. They determined where the shot came from so they were able to comb the building for trace evidence. They were able to determine which cameras most likely caught images of the shooter. They released photos of the possible shooter based on time and camera locations. They opened tip lines and released information nationally because they needed the public’s assistance in identifying the possible suspect. That is completely normal.
Don’t confuse what happens in movies with what happens in real life.
I paid no attention at all to him. It’s mass hysteria, is my guess.
I’d assumed they’d get the guy eventually and it didn’t need any attention on my part. They got all the January 6ers.
The downvotes are deserved, not because Hardin is accurately describing the mental state of many Americans on this event, which he is, but because he shouldn’t be one of them.
like local news that wont show and/or name minors or in many cases blmplo supporters let alone legal or not status of criminals for immigration violations ……
the msm put out a pic of the murderer of ck and claimed they wanted the pos captured
but yet did not give us all known pics and in face the pic was blurred
they doi this all the time on the local news
they might give a still of the perp but its fuzzed out etc
but they claim they want us to help the pd
the black matriarchy is in fact running the show and ruining the country
Local media is so stupid they will show a video of a crime in progress and say “the suspect can be seen in this video committing the crime.” No, no, no. The person committing the crime in a video is the criminal. A “suspect” is a person LE thinks might be the same person as the criminal in the video.
No one bats 1.000; everyone makes mistakes. If Kash made a couple mistakes, okay. Admit and learn from them. Don’t make the same ones in the future.
Mr. Patel is a good director. He is much less of a snake than the last four or five directors, and even if you want him gone, Mr. Trump can’t get the guy you’d want confirmed by the Senate.
In sixth grade, my best friend’s father was an agent, under Hoover.
Patel seem to be the first director more concerned with solving crimes more than doing PR. The agency has always has successes, but I have always thought they spent more time on cases that were photogenic. Polishing their image.
The low point was under Obama.
It’s a debatable claim, to be sure.
Which is the lower point?
The oppression and persecution of thousands of American conservatives for J6, Latin Masses, pro-life and pro-gun activism, anti-immigration advocacy, opposition to woke school boards, and any connection with Donald Trump, under Biden?
Or the outright mass murder of 76 people — 25 of them children — at Waco, with only 9 survivors, by the so-called “Hostage Rescue Team” under Bill Clinton?
It’s a hard call. I don’t think any abuse under Obama comes close.
I think President Kennedy would have a different opinion of that
Ruh-roh. This is a troubling development.
“Two men have been arrested, accused of leaving an incendiary device underneath a local Fox news car near UVU where Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The explosive had been lit but apparently malfunctioned.
The men, Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahmed Nasir, 31, were booked into jail and face multiple charges, including Threat of Terrorism, Possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Possessing Explosive Devices:
https://x.com/Brooketaylortv/status/1967383686229442807
Jesus
Dad and Junior?
That’s my presumption. But, I haven’t seen any reporting describing their familial relationship for certain.
This is the silliest posts I have seen on here in 10 years. All upset over suspect versus subject. You sound like a bunch of English professors. Of course releasing the photos was the correct thing because it resulted in the desired outcome.. WTF
So maybe you all might want to read a post by Sundance at CTH about dear Patel
Defending Kash Patel from Himself
September 14, 2025 | Sundance | 576 Comments
Many people were thrilled with the nomination and eventual confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. However, with decades of researching the political weaponization of the FBI and against the known capabilities of the nominee, we were not part of the thrilled group.
The non-pretenders looked at the challenge, contrast the scope of work against the skillset of the person selected to confront the institutional corruption, and warned people there was more reason to be apprehensive than optimistic.
Do you remember us outlining how the various FBI field offices would be keeping Patel/Bongino tied up with busy work, and stuff to go on TV about.
That said, we don’t want him to fail, but Director Patel has walked himself into a gauntlet of consequence that will be difficult to exit given his lack of discernment – evidenced in the events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The people in control of FBI field operations (not Kash), set up their agency head by informing the boss a suspect was in custody.
The ever focused on public opinion, Director Kash Patel, then took to Twitter at 6:21 pm on September 10th to relay the news. According to media reports Patel was just about to eat dinner at a swanky New York City restaurant when he sent the text message.
We all watched it unfold.
[SOURCE]
After eating dinner at Rao’s, an embarrassed Kash Patel was then forced to retract his public statement, walking back his message that a suspect was in custody at 7:59 pm, a little over 1.5 hours later.
The FBI field operatives smiled. Egg applied as expected, it worked brilliantly.
Kash Patel couldn’t then turn to those who set him up with too much anger, because their defense was, “we were questioning a suspect, we didn’t tell you to go public with it – and as it turned out the suspect was cleared.”
It was a brilliant maneuver, likely intended to undermine his authority and position. It worked perfectly.
Did you see Kash Patel’s face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didn’t say a word at the microphone?
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National media and DC political opposition now runs with the “incompetent” narrative, albeit rightly deserved but for other bigger matters, and the leadership structure of the FBI is weakened.
The institutional elements in control pulled off a great hit. Well played FBI bad guys. Well played.
Perhaps, just perhaps, Director Patel will shift his position and recognize the scale of opposition inside the institution he keeps praising. [Although I doubt his ego will allow him to reset.]
Kash Patel has essentially neutered himself by falling prey to the most transparently obvious ploy of the intel operatives within the institution.
Now, the media has a narrative to enhance, and Director Patel is scheduled to be questioned in the Senate later this week. What comes next will be entirely the result of his own self harm.
Those Machiavellian FBI guys are cruel.
Every adverse operative within the FBI will be back channeling specific investigative information to the Democrat inquisitors in advance, so questions can be specifically formatted.
Whether he can see it or not, FBI Director Kash Patel is being set up by his own agency in collaboration with the Senate guards in DC.
Unfortunately, Kash Patel is now in a defensive mode trying to promote his image over the past 24-hours by retweeting positive articles about him as written by the sources he uses to deliver information, John Solomon (Tick-Tock) and Brooke Singman (Fox).
It’s all quite transparent, and simultaneously a hot mess. “The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.”
I’m not sure if President Trump can see it unfolding, or if President Trump is simply trying to support his FBI director and simultaneously avoid collateral embarrassment. Either way, given the fortunate situation where the father of the assassin secured his son and turned him into police, President Trump is supporting the successful outcome.
There is a sense of familiarity, a feeling similar to NSA Director Mike Waltz, about it:
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Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization. Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.
Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political. We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.
These are not disputed realities.
The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of DC.
Tangentially related: (1) What’s the status of the DC pipe bomber case? And (2) are the 40 FBI agents who worked on the Mueller investigation, still employed?
“ Kash Patel Faces Scrutiny Amid Capture of Kirk’s Assassin”
No, he faces ~criticism,~ which isn’t the same thing. The job got done, and expeditiously.
Think what he did was stupid? If what you’re calling stupid works, who’s stupid?
The only “others” here are leftist media types that are much more interested in smearing Trump and his admin than actual justice. They can all go pound sand.
His handling of it was excellent , had he handled it any other way it could well have led to more violence. When he announced they had a suspect in custody , I think it was pretty clear that that they had a possible person in custody.