In the wake of several mass shootings, FBI director calls for bureau's intelligence operation to 'evolve'
In a memo to FBI employees, Director Kash Patel announced that some officials would be returning to the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, to reexamine the agency’s intelligence work, marking a stark shift for Patel, who has previously celebrated cutting the number of agents in the nation’s capital.
“To stay at the forefront of the intelligence community, some updates to the FBI’s Intelligence Program are needed,” Patel announced Tuesday in the memo sent to bureau employees and reviewed by CNN. While the current intelligence structures of the FBI were “broadly here to stay,” he said, “changes must be made to ensure they evolve to meet our operational needs.”
Months before he was selected to lead the top law enforcement agency in the US, Patel lamented on a podcast that the “biggest problem the FBI has had, has come out of its intel shops.”
“I’d break that component out of it. I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state,” Patel said in a September 2024 interview on the “Shawn Ryan Show.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/wake-several-mass-shootings-fbi-215858272.html
Intelligence and GOP are contradictory.
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the FBI has rotted from the head.
Maybe Patel could station fbi agents in public bathrooms around the country with cameras to look up the skirts of people entering the womens' bathroom. 
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