Kashyap “Kash” Patel is receiving high marks from Senate Republicans in his quest to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next FBI director.
The 44-year-old former federal prosecutor and national security official, considered a Trump loyalist by many, has promised major changes to the country’s top law enforcement agency.
Like many of the president-elect’s supporters, Patel has been a vocal critic of the so-called “deep state” or longtime members of the country’s national security bureaucracy.
“Kash Patel is an agent of transformation. He’ll do a great job,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, told USA Today.
Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, said he hadn’t met Patel one-on-one but had spoken to him previously.
Patel’s nomination signals Trump wants to remove current FBI Director Christopher Wray, who the former president nominated in 2017 to what was supposed to be a 10-year term. More here
