There’s a simple enough rule of politics: If you’re an insider and an outsider wants to come in and muck around your stuff, you don’t like it.
So, we can see why the Federal Bureau of Investigation Deep State is so hostile to Kash Patel, nominated on December 2 by President-elect Trump to head the venerable-but-controversial FBI. (On December 11, the incumbent director, Christopher Wray, announced his resignation; Trump, who had intended to fire Wray upon taking office next month, called it “a great day for America.”)
Patel has said that he intends to release some or all of the FBI’s files on everything from “Russia, Russia, Russia” to Jeffrey Epstein to the John F. Kennedy assassination. “The most important [goal],” Patel says, is “restoring trust in our agencies and departments . . . The way to do it is by giving the American people the…
