What a 'deep state' investigation could look like if Kash Patel becomes FBI director

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Patel's media interviews, his other public statements, and a book that he published last year titled "Government Gangsters" -- which Trump praised as a "roadmap to end the Deep State's reign" -- offer potential clues.
45% : "Like Barr, Rosenstein, Haspel and Esper, nearly a third of the 60 were appointed to senior roles by Trump or members of his administration.
40% : "And he says the current and former U.S. officials who he claims orchestrated "Russia Gate" should be prosecuted, while "thousands and thousands and thousands" of government employees need to be fired for aiding the so-called "deep state" -- what conspiracy theorists claim is a cadre of career government employees working together to secretly manipulate policy, undermine elected leaders, and take down Trump.
37% : Current FBI Director Cristopher Wray, who was nominated by Trump at the start of his first administration and would now be replaced by Patel, has been frequently mentioned.
34% : In its final report on the matter, the Justice Department's inspector general said it uncovered no evidence that "political bias or improper motivation influenced" the investigation of alleged ties between Trump or his associates and Russia.
33% : In July 2016, based on uncorroborated information the FBI received suggesting Russia might try to help Trump win the 2016 election, the agency launched a wide-ranging investigation into whether Trump and his associates were working with Russia.
18% : "Trump loyalist Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to become the next FBI director, has said the FBI's investigation of alleged ties between Trump or his associates and Russia, launched more than eight years ago, was such a massive "criminal enterprise" that it "drowns Watergate.
18% : But Durham also said his investigation didn't find evidence proving that any FBI official "intentionally" tried to "falsely accuse Trump of improper ties to Russia," or intentionally sought to provide inaccurate information to the surveillance court.
17% : So have former FBI Director James Comey, who Wray replaced after Trump fired him, and Comey's former deputy, Andy McCabe.
17% : Ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page, who exchanged personal text messages criticizing Trump as they worked on a major investigation related to him, "broke the law" and "weaponized the system of justice against a political target they hated," Patel said on the Shawn Ryan podcast two months ago.
13% : Separately, a law firm working for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign hired a private investigator, former British spy Christopher Steele, to conduct opposition research on Trump, and Steele compiled a series of reports with shocking claims about Trump and his associates.

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