The Full-Service Cover-Up From Kash Patel

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Three days. Ten firings. One sealed report. One taxpayer-funded beer chug.

Kash Patel fired at least ten FBI employees today for the crime of investigating his boss. Let that land for a second. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — the guy who runs the nation’s top law enforcement agency — just axed a bunch of agents because they did their jobs. Specifically, because during the classified documents investigation, they subpoenaed phone records for Patel himself and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Standard investigative procedure. The kind of thing the FBI does in literally every major case. But when it’s Trump’s people getting looked at? That’s apparently a fireable offense now.

Patel called it “outrageous and deeply alarming” that the previous FBI leadership subpoenaed his phone records. My brother in Christ, you were a witness in the investigation. You testified before a grand jury under immunity. Getting your phone records subpoenaed isn’t some rogue operation — it’s Tuesday at the DOJ.

And the timing. Oh, the timing. This drops the same week that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon permanently blocked the release of Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case. The report the American public paid for. The report that details what happened when a former president stored classified documents in a bathroom at his beach club and then allegedly had his employees help him hide them from investigators. That report. Gone. Sealed forever, if Cannon gets her way.

Congressman Ted Lieu called it “an epic cover-up,” and honestly? He might be underselling it. You’ve got the FBI director firing the people who investigated the case. You’ve got the judge who dismissed the case now blocking the report about the case. And you’ve got the Attorney General who already said she didn’t want the report released anyway. It’s a full-service cover-up. Coordinated. Multi-branch. Extremely well-staffed.

Cannon’s reasoning was a masterpiece of circular logic. She said releasing the report would be a “manifest injustice” to Trump because the charges were dismissed. But she’s the one who dismissed them. She dismissed them on grounds that most legal scholars found, to put it diplomatically, creative. Then she used her own dismissal as the reason to block the report. It’s like setting your own house on fire and then suing the fire department for trespassing.

But here’s the part that really makes this sing. While all of this was happening — while Patel was orchestrating revenge firings and the classified documents case was being sealed shut — you know where the FBI director was three days ago? Milan. At the Winter Olympics. On a taxpayer-funded Gulfstream jet that costs at least five grand per flight hour. Chugging beers in the locker room with the U.S. men’s hockey team after they won gold. The FBI said it was an official trip. Business meetings. Very serious. Planned months in advance. Then someone leaked his schedule to the New York Times, and — surprise — it looked a lot more like a hockey vacation than a security summit. The trip likely cost taxpayers somewhere north of $75,000, and that’s a conservative estimate.

This is the same Kash Patel who, in 2023, said of his predecessor Chris Wray: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane.” Direct quote. From his mouth. On the record.

And it gets better. Senator Dick Durbin just revealed that whistleblowers told him Patel’s jet usage actually delayed the FBI’s evidence response team from reaching the scene of the Brown University mass shooting in December. The elite team had to drive through a snowstorm because Patel had one jet in South Florida and had put a hold on the other. People investigating a mass shooting were driving through a blizzard because the FBI director needed his plane.

So let’s recap. In the span of about seventy-two hours, Kash Patel: partied in an Olympic locker room on the taxpayer’s dime, watched the special counsel’s report on his boss get permanently sealed, and fired at least ten people who investigated the case that produced that report.

The FBI Agents Association put out a statement calling the firings a violation of due process, noting they “weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise.” Which is a very polite way of saying the FBI director is gutting his own agency to protect a guy who stored nuclear secrets next to where he took a dump.

Lieu said he’s confident a new administration in three years will release everything. Maybe. But three years is a long time when you’re watching an entire criminal investigation get buried in real time — the agents fired, the report sealed, the judge running interference, and the FBI director literally partying while it all happens.

Patel promised during his confirmation hearing that “all FBI employees will be protected against political retribution.” That aged like milk in a sauna. The man who was supposed to reform the FBI is using it as a loyalty testing lab. The agents who investigated a crime are being treated like criminals. The report documenting that crime is locked in a vault. And the director is shotgunning Peronis with hockey players on your dime.

America, fuck yeah.

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