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Kash Patel derails yet another shooting investigation



FBI Director Kash Patel is currently in the lead in a contest to determine
which Trump administration official is the most incompetent, after he botched
yet another shooting investigation.

Patel, who somehow still has a job atop the FBI despite being unfit and
unable to carry out the duties, had announced that his agents had helped
capture a "person of interest" in the Brown University shooting that killed two
students and injured nine more on Saturday, describing the process agents use
to find the suspect and capture him.

“This FBI will continue an all out 24/7 campaign until justice is fully
served,” Patel wrote in the post on X.




 



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Yet early Monday morning, the suspect—whose name had been leaked to the media
and his image plastered all across the internet to live forever—had been
released from custody as law enforcement officers said the investigation is now
leading them in a different direction.

The Providence, Rhode Island, chief of police went on to blame the FBI for the
embarrassing screwup.

“It was actually picked up by the FBI … and they ended up coming and located
this individual of interest,” Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar L. Perez Jr.
said during a press conference, adding that after detaining the person they,
“didn’t have enough, obviously, to be able to prosecute anybody.”

This is the second major shooting investigation that Patel has botched.

When right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a college in
Utah, Patel had said that a suspect was in custody, only to have to announce
later that that suspect had been released.




 



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Patel also raised alarm bells in November, when he announced that the FBI had
foiled a “potential” terror plot in Detroit, even though the FBI was still
working to determine if there actually was an attack being planned. But it
turns out, the “plot” had picked up teenagers who were playing video games.

Patel's obsession with posting on social media to make himself look cool has
not only caused embarrassing and potentially dangerous mistakes, but it's led
FBI officials to privately mock Patel behind his back and call him unfit for
the important job he holds.

A 115-page report released earlier this month found that agents said Patel had
turned the agency into a "circus," and that his fixation with making himself
look good has led to him taking credit for things he deserved no credit for.



These fumbles come as Patel and President Donald Trump are gutting the FBI,
forcing out longtime agents because Trump is mad that many of them worked on
investigations of the hundreds of insurrectionists who attacked the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Agents are also being pulled off serious work in order to help Trump carry
out his deportation agenda—which is now clearly making us less safe.

Of course, Trump is not blameless in the decline of the FBI.

However, after the botched Kirk investigation, reports said that Trump was
growing tired of Patel's blunders and was making plans to replace him.

After now bungling the Brown University investigation, we'll see if Trump
follows through.



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