Raskin: The Response to Reports About Kash Patel’s Performance at the FBI Is ‘To Go After the Reporters‘

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RASKIN: "Well, the reports keep coming out of chaos in the office, an absentee director and, you know, drinking during the working day and so on. And their response to all these things is to try to go after the reporters, to either try to determine whether they can get any goods on the reporters, whether there’s any dirt on them, searching through FBI databases, or alternatively, to crack down on the so-called leakers involved. Well, how about dealing with the underlying problem, which was what our letter was about originally. I mean, the original Atlantic report quoted or paraphrased at least something like 20 different people about this. It seems kind of far-fetched and nonsensical to suggest that all of this was just made up. And if Kash Patel is willing to go ahead and sue The Atlantic, then apparently he’s got nothing to be afraid of. He should respond to this questionnaire, which is used for public sector workers all the time, or private sector workers, about whether there’s a drinking problem that is interfering with their ability to do their job. And since nobody else in the Trump Administration will deal with the issue, I think that Congress has got to exercise its oversight powers."