Trump official doing something unprecedented –and a former FBI agent says it's dangerous

President Donald Trump’s beleaguered FBI director, Kash Patel, is doing something unprecedented through his personal use of government resources, according to a former special FBI agent.

“The organization is going to be taken less seriously by the American public,” former FBI staffer Michael Feinberg told MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez on Thursday. “And that's just not a reputational harm. The FBI is only as successful as its ability to talk to people on the street, whether victims of crime, witnesses to horrific events, or even putative subjects themselves, and establish rapport and trust and know that the conversations and interactions are going to be taken with the utmost seriousness.”

Feinberg added, “But if every other day there's a story about the FBI director trying to leverage jet skis out of a business trip, that's going to bounce back poorly on the workforce who's out there actually dealing with the community.”

After pointing out that the senior Senate Republican in charge of supervising these matters, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), has demanded that Patel answer questions about his alleged misuse of FBI resources, MS NOW reporter Ken Dilanian explained why the venerable Republican lawmaker has taken such a strong interest in the matter.

“Grassley is a really interesting figure because — he's been around forever, right — and for years he had a habit of, and a reputation for, conducting bipartisan, vigorous oversight and being a steward of the taxpayer dollar,” Dilanian said. “But in recent years, he's become such a defender of Donald Trump and Kash Patel and everything the Justice Department and the FBI has done that it was surprising to see him actually asking critical questions here.”

He continued, “But he points out in the letter that he has a bipartisan history of doing this, and he feels like it's part of the role of Congress to oversee this kind of spending. And so he's doing it. Whether he'll actually follow through and demand these documents and make them public, or have a hearing, that kind of oversight remains to be seen, I think. But this is the first step.”

Dilanian has identified a number of alleged Patel missteps since the latter took over the FBI. For example, in May, he pointed out how Patel has pushed out a number of well-respected FBI agents for political purposes, such as one who refused to reach the Trump administration’s conclusions regarding the 2017 congressional baseball game shooting.

“It was unclear whether the letter cited her role in the 2017 assessment, but the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss a personnel matter, said her removal was widely perceived inside the bureau as the latest in a series of firings of nonpartisan FBI agents who did their jobs in a way that drew disfavor from President Donald Trump or Republicans,” Dilanian said at the time.

Dilanian added that Patel was angry because the agent in charge of that case concluded the shooting was “motivated by a desire to commit an attack on Members of Congress. … This conduct is something that we would today characterize as a domestic terrorism event.”

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