Ex-FBI officials worry that Kash Patel as director may wield unlimited power

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61% : I imagine on the first day in office, he's going to say, 'I need every file that has the word Trump in it,'" Figliuzzi said.
54% : Related: 'Cynical cash grab': FBI chief nominee Kash Patel's profitable links in the non-profit world"Agents know how to do a background investigation," Figliuzzi said, "but once it gets to headquarters, can it be manipulated by somebody like Kash Patel?
46% : Patel has no experience working at the bureau and his national security experience has mainly come through the lens of Trump politics, including when he was a staffer on the House intelligence committee during the first Trump presidency before joining the administration itself.
38% : "Trump settled on Patel to be the next FBI director - he soured on the current director, Chris Wray, partly for not blocking the criminal investigation into his retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago - after he demonstrated personal loyalty and espoused the same distrust of the agency.
37% : That résumé has drawn criticism from former FBI officials who have privately questioned whether Patel has any knowledge of how the FBI operates and whether attempts to launch partisan, political investigations would distract from other counterterrorism or criminal probes.
21% : The alarm has come as Patel, who has called for shutting down FBI headquarters and drafted a so-called enemies list of people Trump feels wronged by, appears set to have his nomination supported unanimously by Republicans on the Senate judiciary committee.
16% : "That should be a real concern, that Kash Patel is going through informant files and saying, 'Look at that, this guy coughed it up on Trump.'

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