"When selecting members of his Administration, Donald Trump seems to value one quality above all: loyalty. This helps explain why he chose Kash Patel, a conspiracy-minded lawyer with scant qualifications, to lead the F.B.I. In this week's issue, Marc Fisher reports on Patel's improbable rise -and reveals how he is transforming the nation's top law-enforcement agency into an instrument of the Trump agenda, political and personal."
"Patel, who also served in Trump's first Administration, has few friends in Washington. In his prior positions at the National Security Council, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of Defense, he was seen as "lazy," and many sensed that his primary ambition was to get as close to Trump as possible. "He had no real politics of his own," Charlie Kupperman, the former deputy national-security adviser, told Fisher. "Trump has supported him at every turn because he's one-hundred-per-cent sycophant.""
Kash Patel is a conspiracy-minded lawyer with scant qualifications who was chosen to run the F.B.I. because of his loyalty to Donald Trump. He previously served in the first Trump Administration at the National Security Council, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of Defense, where colleagues described him as lazy and primarily driven to be close to the President. His leadership has shifted FBI resources toward immigration enforcement and to cities targeted by Trump, and he has dismissed agents who worked on cases related to Trump. He has made the Bureau align with the President's political and personal priorities.
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