DAVID MARCUS: Kash Patel is the fumigator the FBI needs

President-elect Donald Trump chose Saturday night to announce that his longtime adviser Kash Patel is his choice to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and for anyone interested in a good look at the FBI, this is it a reason for real optimism.

Before we get to the long list of FBI abuses that Patel would hopefully put an end to, let’s first note that this is a respected man who served at high levels in the first Trump administration. This is not an influencer.

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But Patel is someone with new eyes who has a chance to see and heal the abuses of an FBI that has too often become the enemy, not the friend, of freedom and liberty.

For example, Patel would take over an FBI that targets Catholics. The FBI has decided that traditional Catholics need to be carefully watched because we may be close to extremism.

The FBI has faced several scandals in recent years. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

As a Catholic, I would say that an FBI that doesn’t spy on my churches like the FBI has done in recent years would be a big improvement. However, it’s fair to say that the guy in the black shoes and white socks at the show isn’t fooling anyone. I wish this was just a joke.

When Senator Josh Hawley questioned current FBI Director Christopher Wray last year, he put it this way: “My God, Director, this is one of the most egregious attacks – you have mobilized your department, the most powerful law enforcement department in the world, against traditionalists. “Catholics… and you just told us that you haven’t fired a single person.”

A side by side of Kash Patel and President-elect Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

Would you like to go back a little further? Remember the Durham Report? Where a special agent stated, and I quote, “The FBI has failed to carry out its mission of strict adherence to the law.”

That’s kind of the whole mission, folks. loyalty to the law. The whole.

And that’s not all. Remember the Mar-A-Lago robbery? Melania Trump’s underwear drawer is searched and the evidence found there is put on public display, spread out on the floor like an outtake from “Goodfellas?”

Have we ever seen images like this from the FBI related to President Joe Biden’s secret documents? NO.

When President Joe Biden’s lawyers were terminated and high-fived by the FBI, was there a reason the FBI had to treat the Trump raid like some sort of Call of Duty mission? NO.

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What Patel can bring to the FBI is fairness, honesty and the actual blindfold a judge should wear. No good person should be afraid of it, it should not endanger anything true or just.

What actually threatens Patel is an FBI establishment and leadership, a collection of men and women in tweeds with twisted Ivy degrees who have never been told “no” before. He may well say no when they try to destroy freedom.

And he should. Patel is appointed as FBI director not to target enemies, but to target friends, and not just friends, but all of us.

Do you have an FBI file? You don’t know. Perhaps. Do I have an FBI file? I don’t know either, but I could do it too. And that’s the point. These people have extraordinary power over all of us.

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Patel’s record suggests he will use that power rarely and carefully when it comes to Americans expressing their faith and living their politics. That he will try to punish crimes, not thoughts.

That’s about the best we can expect from an FBI director. No more political investigations, no more scores to settle. Only the fair and free execution of the law. There is every reason to believe that this is exactly what Patel intends to do.

And there is every reason to believe that it can help our nation on the path to healing.

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