The Kash Patel FBI is apparently worthless.

[rubbersole]

The family is responsible for the shooter being in custody. This episode is going to be embarrassing for the Feds.

[IcyPeas]

1. The family turned him in very quickly. Hope they got a lawyer first.

You know they are going to throw the book at him... and more. The Governor already mentioned the death penalty.

[gab13by13]

2. Kash Patel said he takes his orders from the White House,

Stephen Miller is the real Director of the FBI.

[rubbersole]

5. It also explains why tsf is the source of "breaking news" about this shooting.

He announced Kirk's death and the shooter being in custody. They'll cover up anything that suggests this guy is a devoted magat. Bet he is.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Under Kash Patel and Trump, the FBI now stands for. . .

Fuckheads, Bunglers, Imbeciles

[BeerBarrelPolka]

4. Or Full-Blooded Idiots

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. He wrote a children's book that called Trump the king

That's why Donny hired him.

[Norbert]

7. Kash and Bungleo rid the FBI of much of the competent people.

Of course, in today's FBI, a fry cook at Wendy's can be an FBI agent tomorrow. They really do not need to know shit, but shoving your head up Krasnov's smelly ass will get you everywhere.

[EdmondDantes_]

8. And Luigi Mangioni was turned in by people at a McDonald's during the Biden administration

Law enforcement gets and relies on tips from the public all the time. Patel is an unqualified idiot, but this isn't proof of that.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Patel should send that family a fruit basket.🧺

This case wouldn’t have closed so quickly without their assistance.

[RegexReader]

10. more probably

was the fear of the FBI's HRT coming in after him. Anyone flinch from a flashbang was going to get ventilated. Safer all around for them.

Not counting the house getting demolished in the process.

[milestogo]

11. Patel called him "brother".

He really doesn't get what his role is.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. "See you in Valhalla"

Completely unprofessional goon who didn’t catch shit regardless of the “what I did on my vacation” report he just mumbled out his maw.

[milestogo]

13. Now the governor is eulogizing him.

What a crock of shit. I can't watch any more.

[rubbersole]

14. This isn't a press conference.

It's a right wing pep rally. JFC. What an embarrassment on every level.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Patel is an idiot

Link to tweet

[JI7]

15. He was hired to protect Trump and go after anyone

that has or wants to get the truth on him.

Nothing else really matters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. 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.

[JCMach1]

17. Literally couldnt properly identify the bullet material

Internet did it in about 60 seconds.