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J. Edgar Hoover made the F.B.I. into a powerful but nonpartisan colossus. Kash Patel’s chief goal, by contrast, is to weaponize the Bureau to protect Donald Trump and wreak vengeance on his Administration’s enemies.
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How Would Kash Patel Compare to J. Edgar Hoover?

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The New Yorker magazine has reported extensively on Hoover's ideological agenda and how "Hoover’s dirty-tricks campaign was designed to neutralize almost all forms of political dissent," even comparing him to Torquemada.
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5:56 PM · Dec 24, 2024. //

Hoover misused the power of the FBI. Meanwhile, Kash Patel has exposed FBI abuses and wants to hold people accountable who may have broken the law. Indeed, he's the opposite of Hoover; he's seeking to reform the agency and its abuse. So the whole effort to take this approach by The New Yorker is just bizarre. Is it any wonder that Americans no longer trust the legacy media? //

tamkae
4 hours ago
All one has to do is change the names in their article and you get a perfect description of what has been going on with the FBI these past 4+ years.
"Kash Patel’s Christopher Wray's chief goal, by contrast, is to weaponize the Bureau to protect Donald Trump Joe Biden and wreak vengeance on his Administration’s enemies."