"Mickey Mouse" FBI director Kash Patel

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/us/politics/fbi-patel-kirk-shooting.html

https://archive.ph/S2G46

Scrutiny Mounts of F.B.I. Under Patel as Kirk’s Killer Remains at Large
Already, a series of missteps by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, in recent months have invited worries that he has eroded public confidence in the agency.
By Glenn Thrush, Devlin Barrett and Adam Goldman
Sept. 11, 2025 Updated 11:08 p.m. ET

On Thursday morning, a day after hastily suggesting the person who gunned down Charlie Kirk was in custody, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, convened an online meeting with 200 agents around the country to discuss the manhunt. It was a tense affair.

Mr. Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, made it clear they were under intense pressure to catch the killer of Mr. Kirk. They expressed themselves with such fierce urgency that, in the view of some participants, it hinted at another motive: to prove they were up to the task.

The director wasted no time before calling out subordinates that he said failed to give him timely information and was incensed that agents in Salt Lake City waited nearly 12 hours to show him a photo of the suspected killer, according to three people familiar on the exchange.

Mr. Patel said he would not tolerate any more “Mickey Mouse operations,” an official on the call recounted. It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.

The killing of Mr. Kirk on Wednesday not only poses a challenge to agents racing to find the shooter, it also represents a grave leadership test for Mr. Patel. His swift pronouncements about the inquiry have revived concerns about his lack of experience, obsession with social media and purge of some of the bureau’s most experienced investigators, according to current and former officials, most of whom spoke on the sensitive matter on the condition of anonymity.

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The idiot couldn't wait to get back to his room and watch porn

[RockRaven]

1. The emphasis on speed is a cause to doubt the truthfulness of any "development"

And that is doubt entirely of their own making.

[Historic NY]

2. Mickey Mouse director....

got rid of experienced leaders for those that don't have much

[RoeVWade]

3. I think Trump told him he had to go to Utah. Apparently he just sat there during the news confernece.

nt*

[Jim__]

4. He's eroded public confidence in the agency? How about he's eroded the competence of the agency?

[Cha]

7. Both. nt

[niyad]

5. Hiw DARE that fucking, incompetent scum insult Mickey like that???

[IcyPeas]

6. Where have they been? I remember them calling out Mayor Karen Bass....

because she was in Ghana when the Palisades Fire started.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. MaddowBlog-Kash Patel's difficulties and embarrassments at the FBI do not go unnoticed

The FBI director was already facing questions about whether he was up to the task. Those questions grew louder this week.

Kash Patel’s difficulties and embarrassments at the FBI do not go unnoticed

The FBI director was already facing questions about whether he was up to the task. Those questions grew louder this week.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Raymond Norman (@raymondnorman.bsky.social) 2025-09-12T20:44:13.749Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kash-patel-fbi-problems-rcna230812

A Politico report added, “Patel’s blunder came at a time when the embattled director was already under scrutiny from all sides of the political spectrum — and from many current and former agents in the bureau itself.”

A day later, according to The New York Times’ latest reporting and multiple sources, Patel convened an online meeting with 200 agents to discuss the manhunt, launched into profanity-laced tirades and whined about not being kept in the loop by his subordinates. From the article:

The killing of Mr. Kirk on Wednesday not only poses a challenge to agents racing to find the shooter, it also represents a grave leadership test for Mr. Patel. His swift pronouncements about the inquiry have revived concerns about his lack of experience, obsession with social media and purge of some of the bureau’s most experienced investigators, according to current and former officials, most of whom spoke on the sensitive matter on the condition of anonymity.

......That’s plainly true. Patel’s tenure has featured a variety of embarrassments and brazenly partisan personnel purges. Things went from bad to worse this week when three former senior FBI officials filed a brutal federal lawsuit, which characterized Patel’s bureau as fixated on “politically motivated retribution” and consumed by the whims of a Trump White House.

In case that weren’t quite enough, Patel, just a few weeks ago, fired the highly regarded head of the FBI field office Salt Lake City for reasons that have not yet been explained — and given that the Kirk shooting happened in Utah, the director’s decision received obvious and unavoidable scrutiny anew over the last couple of days.....

Patel has been battling suspicions that he simply wasn’t up for the job ever since. He still enjoys the White House's backing, but he nevertheless took additional steps toward confirming those suspicions this week.