President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he has selected Kash Patel to take over the FBI from current Director Christopher Wray immediately sparked media theories that the move was designed to let the new President improperly use the bureau as an instrument of revenge against his political enemies.
During Saturday evening’s live coverage on MSNBC, The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols blasted it as an “extraordinarily dangerous” pick, while over on CNN, ex-FBI official Andrew McCabe, now CNN’s senior law enforcement analyst, claimed Patel’s elevation “can only possibly be a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI and to possibly use it as a tool for the President’s political agenda.”
On Sunday’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Jon Karl branded Patel as “the FBI Director nominee for retribution,” adding that “you can bet…
