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

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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.

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

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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.

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1. As long as he keeps Kraznov happy debasing his masculinity

as a Yes Man,

He will keep his job.

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2. Here is some bio information on that highly regarded head of FBI Salt Lake Field office he fired for Trump

From
April 24, 2023:
Mehtab D. Syed Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterintelligence and Cyber Division at the Los Angeles Field Office

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/mehtab-d-syed-named-special-agent-in-charge--of-the-counterintelligence-and-cyber-division-at-the-los-angeles-field-office]

Director Christopher Wray has named Mehtab D. Syed as the special agent in charge of the Counterintelligence and Cyber Division at the Los Angeles Field Office. Ms. Syed most recently served as a section chief in the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Syed joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005 and reported to the New York Field Office to work counterterrorism investigations. She also served on New York’s Crisis Negotiation Team and Rapid Deployment Team.

In 2008, Ms. Syed deployed to Islamabad to serve as the acting assistant legal attaché. In Pakistan, Ms. Syed was responsible for coordinating activities between the law enforcement, intelligence, and security services of multiple governments. After returning to the New York Field Office, Ms. Syed was promoted to supervisory special agent in 2012 and served in the Counterterrorism Division at Headquarters focusing on extraterritorial investigations.

Ms. Syed was appointed assistant legal attaché in Amman, Jordan, in 2015. In this role, she oversaw FBI efforts in the region at the time the U.S. was engaged in efforts against the self-declared Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

more at link

Then: from By Pat Reavy, KSL.com | Posted - May 27, 2025 at 8:05 a.m.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51318723/new-head-of-salt-lake-fbi-office-made-dramatic-career-shift-to-be-part-of-the-solution]

SALT LAKE CITY — Mehtab Syed has an impressive resume that includes working for the FBI in some of the nation's biggest cities and the department's most important divisions.

That's not bad for a woman who was born in Pakistan, moved to the United States when she was 17 and was working as a financial analyst for a restaurant chain.

"Never in a million years did I ever plan to be an FBI agent," she told KSL.com this week.

In February, Syed was named as the new head of the FBI's Salt Lake City field office, which also includes Idaho and Montana.

more at link. She is no light weight. But she is the wrong color and wrong religion for the Felon's team, she is a she, and she is probably not someone they can yank around.

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3. This guy should not be the FBI Director.

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