Kash Patel: Shut Down The FBI's Hoover Building And Turn It Into "Museum Of The Deep State"

Former Trump administration official Kash Patel, whose name has been floated as a possible FBI or CIA director, told Stinchfield Tonight in August that if he were in charge, he would shut down the FBI headquarters building in Washington, "and open it up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State."

"Send those 7,000 agents in the headquarters building downrange to chase down rapists, murderers, and drug traffickers."

KASH PATEL: [Deputy Director Paul Abbate] is former deputy director Andy McCabe's basically "FBI kid," and he is going to cover up for the Bureau, and they have already shown their hatred towards Donald Trump and his movement by the unlawful searches of 275,000 Americans using the FISA process. A bunch of it was targeted at Trump supporters.

So they have no credibility. They lie all the time in Congress, because Congress lets them get away with it. And at fault there, partly is the Republican majority for not bringing them up on contempt of Congress charges for everything from their statements about domestic terrorism to being on the rise to Christopher Wray, the top cop in the country who doesn’t know what a bullet is when it’s fired at a president’s head is just disgustingly political and another corruption cover-up scandal.

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One of my biggest personal recommendations is you shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State, and you send those 7000 agents in the headquarters building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers, to chase down drug traffickers and let the cops be cops on the streets across America. You keep a small contingent in Washington, DC. That’s step one.

You get rid of half of the legion of lawyers and special counsels that exist within the FBI to do one thing, to corrupt and obstruct government oversight from constitutionally applicable committees in Congress.

Another aspect of it is one of the biggest institutions in the FBI that has been troubled and politicized and weaponized has been their intel component. We have an Intel agency. I don’t need it to be redone within the walls of the FBI. We’ve shown when we’ve given them that power what they do to it, they unlawfully surveil a president as a candidate. So those are three quick things that we could rattle off that would be my recommendation to reform the FBI.