Patel: The Comeys, McCabes of the FBI Were the Ones Weaponizing Lost Statutes

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PATEL: "Yeah, and look, I hearken back to my days as a public defender, when I was deputy director of national intelligence or even chief of staff of the Department of Defense. All of that has formed a unique experience for me to serve as the 9th Director of the FBI. There’s never been a public defender that has sat in this seat and I think it's about time we did so. But I want to remind the American public, the former leadership, some of those in the leadership in the FBI in the past years, the Comeys, the McCabes, the Strzoks, the Pages of the world, and the list goes on, they're the ones that weaponize law statutes like the 1001 count you’re talking about, to victimize and politicize the statutes on the books and instead of using them against actual criminals. I’m here to tell you that the men and women at the FBI that I’ve seen in  the building and out in the field since I've been in the office these four weeks, they want to use that 1001 charge only where the facts and the law allows them to and not where leadership forces them to.”