| A former FBI agent bluntly
stated: The current director is utterly incompetent,
and national security is deteriorating March 25th,2026  From J. Edgar Hoover authorizing extensive surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. to James Comey relaunching a misguided investigation of Hillary Clinton days before the 2016 election, many of the eight previous non-interim FBI directors have shown terrible judgment. But Kash Patel may have established himself, in less than a year, as the worst FBI director ever. He spent 2025 undermining the bureau’s legitimate investigations while launching illegitimate ones, forcing out some of its best employees while installing cronies, and forcing some of the nation’s most skilled law enforcement personnel to act as chauffeurs for Patel’s girlfriend and her friends. It’s likely that anyone Trump appointed to run the FBI would have harassed the president’s enemies and exonerated his friends, because that’s Trump’s vision for his law enforcement appointees. Attorney General Pam Bondi and federal prosecutors chosen by Trump are doing the same. In fact, a lawsuit filed by recently-fired FBI agents alleges that Patel is largely carrying out an agenda conceived by Stephen Miller and other aides with more power in the administration. |