Kash Patel: The Amount of Men and Women in the FBI that Wanted to Fix the Bureau Was Surprisingly Pleasant

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PATEL: "I think what I was a critic of was the leadership, people who sat in this seat before me, people who were the deputies in the very senior portions of the Bureau, who manipulated and weaponized the Bureau. I was a fierce critic of it because I led the Russia investigation and I proved that my predecessors went to a federal court and lied to them just to weaponize the FBI and the DoJ. That is a hundred percent true, I think one of the things that surprised me the most, and pleasantly so, was that the amount of men and women at the FBI that hated that they did that to the Bureau, and that when I got in the seat, when Dan Bongino got in the seat, they said, 'We want to fix this place. We want to work with you, we’ve been trying to do it for years. We’ve been trying to increase training. We weren’t able to. We’ve been trying to take that technological advancements around the world and import them into the FBI. That hasn’t been done.' And so we’ve just seen a void in the -- in terms of long-range planning at the FBI that all the men and women at the FBI wanted to do and their leadership wouldn't let them."