I Don't Believe Kash Patel -- Benjamin Wittes [View all]

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation---i-don-t-believe-kash-patel

The FBI directors shows a “lack of candor” before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The FBI director earlier today made a series of claims before the committee. Let me be blunt: I don’t believe them.

I don’t believe Patel.

To be clear, I’m not accusing him of perjury. To do that requires knowing with a great deal more precision than I know precisely what the underlying reality is regarding the individual issues in question. It requires knowing more than I know about his state of mind when he testified as to those things. And it requires a careful analysis of the precise words that he spoke and their relation to that underlying truth. I don’t want to pretend to know more than I do about any of those things.

But I do know that Patel made a series of statements that don’t comport with anything about my understanding about what’s going on at the FBI. Let me enumerate those statements.

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(Following is a long series of reasons why Patel is not believed. These seem like reasonable suspicions and should be addressed by the play-acting FBI Director.)