Column: Kash Patel, Trump's FBI pick, would turn the agency into the Federal Bureau of Retribution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : During his four years in the White House, Trump frequently demanded that the FBI and the Justice Department investigate his adversaries.
44% : They should look carefully at Patel's skimpy qualifications beyond his loyalty to Trump.
40% : Patel has vowed to purge the federal law enforcement agency of anyone who doesn't fully support Trump, and says he will transfer all 7,000 employees in the bureau's Washington headquarters to other cities -- apparently including agents who now focus on international terrorism and foreign espionage.
35% : The irony, of course, is that Trump and other Republicans have spent years condemning what they claim has been a "weaponization" of the Justice Department and FBI under Democratic presidents.
23% : Since his election last month, Trump has said -- not entirely reassuringly -- that he does not intend to order up investigations from the Oval Office.
11% : In 2020, when Trump proposed giving Patel the No. 2 job in the bureau, his attorney general, William Barr, threatened to quit.
5% : He has called for the prosecution of a long list of people he accuses of conspiring to undermine Trump, including President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and outgoing FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.

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