NSC aide who worked to discredit Russia probe moves to senior ODNI post

[demmiblue]

Source: Politico

Kash Patel, a former top National Security Council official who also played a key role as a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe, is now a senior adviser for new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, according to four people familiar with the matter.

It’s not clear what exact role Patel is playing in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community. He started at ODNI on Thursday, according to an administration official.

Patel, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, joined the National Security Council’s International Organizations and Alliances directorate last February and was promoted to a senior counterterrorism role at the NSC in mid-summer.

He had previously worked as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)’s top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee and was the lead author of a report questioning the conduct of FBI and DOJ officials investigating Russia’s election interference. Republicans later used the report to bolster arguments that the probe was a plot to take down President Donald Trump.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/kash-patel-odni-post-116546

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[dchill]

1. Think about it - Kash Patel is where Devin Nunes...

...got his intelligence.

[Botany]

3. And Devin Nunes get his intel from Vlad Putin.

n/t

[Botany]

2. So let me get this straight

Trump fired the head of the DNI, Joseph Maguire, because he did his job and allowed
Shelby Pierson to do her job and report to the House Intel Committee that our intelligence
showed that Russia was working to rig our 2020 election for Trump?

[MissMillie]

4. Wait a minute....

"a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe,..."


Since when has the Russia probe been discredited?

[Botany]

5. "Since when has the Russia probe been discredited?"

At the same time that the Steele Dossier and the Mueller Report were discredited.
Which they never were and we still haven't seen the Mueller Report only Bill Barr's
version of it.

Trump and the Republicans work from the Joseph Goebbles's playbook of the big lie.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

[riversedge]

7. well, per the repugs, fox et all and trump, the russian #MuellerReport is discredited you know!!...

good god. he is Nunes worker also. damn.


..............Kash Patel, a former top National Security Council official who also played a key role as a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe, is now a senior adviser for new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell,

[yaesu]

6. criminality is rewarded in the tRump fascist republiCon criminal organisation, Dems need to stop

working with, funding this criminal empire, its time to defund, shut them down even if it means crashing everything. This country needs some tough love.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. New details: Kash Patel [Nunes flunky] misrepresented himself to Trump as Ukraine expert

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212637770

Hill believes Trump believed Conspiracy theories that Nune's flunky Patel had been feeding him

Link to tweet

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212714288

[dalton99a]

9. This asshole wrote the Nunes memo accusing the FBI and the DOJ of bias against Trump

[Nitram]

10. We're now rapidly moving towards politicization of the entire security and intelligence apparatus.

This is very, very dangerous. The next step will be the arrest of Congressional Democratic leaders if Trump continues with the standard authoritarian playbook.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Kash Patel - winner of an Order on Ineptitude, literally

As a Justice Department lawyer In 2016, Patel was issued a rare Order on Ineptitude — yes it's really called that! — by a federal judge in Houston after he spectacularly botched the mundane task of ordering a transcript, and then showed up in casual clothes to defend his conduct in in court. And it was all downhill from there.

Patel authored the famous Nunes Memo which proved Barack Obama weaponized the FBI against Carter Page to murder Donald Trump's campaign. Just kidding, it proved fuck-all except that Nunes and Patel are hacks who'd burn down the entire Intelligence Community if they thought it would help Donald Trump get reelected.

Patel, WHO IS A LAWYER, is also the whiny-ass little flopper who pretended that Rod Rosenstein had threatened to murder him with subpoenas after Rosenstein responded to Nunes's threat to impeach him by reminding the chairman that Rosenstein would be able to defend himself in such an impeachment by subpoenaing the relevant emails.
...
In November, Patel, WHO IS A LAWYER, hired wack-ass libelslander lawyer Steven Biss to sue Politico and Natasha Bertrand for accurately reporting Hill and Vindman's testimony, arguing, "Schiff conducted the interviews like a Star Chamber or Kangaroo Court, and, in so doing, stripped the witnesses of any privilege or immunity from defamation that they may have enjoyed." Much normal! Totally law!

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-taps-nunes-lackey-kash-patel-to-run-nations-intelligence-if-any

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Patel lied to Trump that he, not Vindman, was Ukraine expert.

Fiona Hill testified.