EXTRA EDITION: Kash Patel Is The Deep State’s Worst Nightmare and the FBI’s Best Hope
Call your Senator TODAY to demand his confirmation.
by Rod D. Martin
February 19, 2025
The Senate’s confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI director would mark a seismic shift in Washington: a death knell to the Deep State’s stranglehold over the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. Alongside the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard, Patel’s appointment would cement President Donald Trump’s commitment to gutting the regime’s political police.
It’s long overdue. And that’s why they hate him.
The Deep State loathes Patel already because he has the precise experience, tenacity, and independence needed to dismantle its corruption. The very reason the establishment attacks him is why America needs him.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 48-45 along party lines to advance Patel’s nomination, setting the stage for a final confirmation vote later this week. Call your Senators to demand they vote YEA.
The Judiciary Committee had previously approved his nomination by a 12-10 vote, with Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa defending Patel’s career of exposing government overreach. “Mr. Patel knows it, he’s exposed it, and he’s been targeted for it,” Grassley said, highlighting Patel’s role in uncovering FBI misconduct in Crossfire Hurricane and the broader Russia-collusion hoax.
Donald Trump’s election was, in part, a referendum on a national security state that had gone rogue, turning its awesome powers inward against the American people. The past decade has only confirmed what many suspected: our intelligence agencies have been weaponized against us, transformed into enforcement arms for the ruling elite. From the Russia! Russia! Russia! hoax and the Censorship-Industrial Complex, to the politically motivated targeting of pro-life activists and concerned parents, the FBI and its allies have acted more like a Praetorian Guard for the regime than as protectors of the people and the Constitution.
Kash Patel knows this firsthand because more than anyone else he exposed one of the Russiagate coup attempt. As a senior investigator for the House Intelligence Committee, Patel co-authored the Nunes memo, blowing the lid off the FBI’s fraudulent FISA applications to spy on the Trump campaign.
In return, of course, the same Justice Department he was investigating spied on him. The establishment tried to crush him, and Nunes. They failed.
And that’s precisely why they fear him now. Patel is not just another bureaucrat eager to warm a seat and collect a pension (or an offshore bank account full of USAID money, as the case may be). He has served as a public defender, a prosecutor, a senior official at the National Security Council, chief of staff to the Secretary of Defense, and even Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. He has navigated the highest levels of power and seen, up close, how the system has been rigged to serve the ruling class rather than the Republic.
Kash has fought back and won. Given the FBI’s current state — a politicized shipwreck pursuing vendettas rather than justice — there is no one better suited to clean house.
And let’s be clear: America needs that house cleaned. The FBI has destroyed whistleblowers who dared expose its corruption. It has targeted journalists, clergy, and political dissidents. It has colluded with Big Tech to censor Americans, run election interference, and suppress damning evidence against regime favorites. The bureau, as it stands, is a political bludgeon masquerading as a law enforcement agency. Without a fundamental overhaul, it will continue to serve as Democrats’ secret police.
Patel’s record proves he has the spine to fix it. In his confirmation hearing, he also made clear he understands the stakes. “Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you,” he told senators.
Unlike the careerists and climbers who thrive in the Swamp, Patel knows the pain and price of standing up to a corrupt system. And unlike those already captured by the institutions they claim to reform, Patel has the scars to prove his independence.
His partner in this fight, Tulsi Gabbard, has endured similar persecution. A veteran who served two decades in uniform, Gabbard was targeted by the Deep State the moment she stepped out of line. Mere hours after challenging Kamala Harris’ coronation in 2019, she was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list. Her crime? Calling out the security state’s abuses and its bipartisan enablers.
Gabbard’s Senate confirmation sent a shockwave through the establishment, which was certain it would never, ever happen. It proved conclusively that reform is not just rhetoric — it’s happening.
Patel and Gabbard are not being attacked for lack of qualifications. They are being attacked because of their qualifications; and even more critically, because they cannot be controlled. Like Donald Trump, they are not beholden to the institutions they now seek to reform. They understand the intelligence community’s proper mission: to protect Americans from foreign threats, not to act as ideological enforcers for the ruling elite.
The Senate recognized the urgency of the moment when it confirmed Gabbard. Now, it must finish the job. Confirming Kash Patel is not just a personnel decision: it’s a declaration of intent. Either America is serious about dismantling the Deep State and restoring Constitutional governance, or it will continue its descent into a fully operational police state.
Patel is the right man for the job, and the time to act is now. Call your Senator NOW: the final vote is expected to be on Thursday.
Excellent column. Kash Patel is truly much more qualified than most former Directors of the FBI, in its history. Hoover had his problems, but the Bureau did a good job under him because he hired ex-military and ex-law enforcement officers to do the hard work on the street. Clarence Kelly and Louie Freeh did the same. After Kelly was pushed out, Judges were the ones hired. Webster was known as a do nothing that couldn’t make a decision. His assistants did most of his work. Sessions was a complete disaster. Freeh tried and did a great deal of clean-up but faced political pressure and left. Mueller, Wray, and Comey were DOJ officials who wanted to replace agents with analysts and turn the Bureau into. MI-5 type agency that ignored criminal law and spied on Americans. And they succeeded, as history verifies.
They took case management away from the field and working agents and dictated the actions of the agents by sending a bunch of HQ people to the field as administrators and ran investigations from DC.
They lowered standards for recruitment and hiring with DEI, and to recruit higher college degree folks with no real experience to replace agents who had former law enforcement or military experience.
I spent almost 3 decades in the Bureau with 10 years in law enforcement prior to joining. If you look at the retired agents who vocally support Kash Patel, they are almost exclusively those with prior law enforcement and military backgrounds. That’s because they know how to work and honor the Constitution. The two big groups who are against Kash are the “official” retired agents group and the Agent’s Association which have always been controlled by the FBI HQ sycophants.
They just parrot HQ propaganda.
Kash can do the job, because of his prior experience and his support of the Constitution.
The Bureau needs a clean-up, clean out, and a complete reset.
Prayers for Kash’s confirmation and reform of the FBI.
I’m praying for Kash Patel to be confirmed. We need him to clean up the FBI!