Kash Patel will be confirmed today!

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12 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Shad it’s the end of the 4th paragraph. I copied right out of it. Sorry, you asked, just trying to answer your question.

Cool.  So the “three people familiar with the situation “ , is the basis for your 3 page story?  actually the basis of your story is your TDS driven life.  Good luck 

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2 hours ago, shadrap said:

So who is the source of this story?

Well here’s some corroboration:

And what a coincidence!

 

I was going to say it’s cool he was going to a wrestling event…but looks like he didn’t stay to watch any actual wrestling 

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FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff

>>FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, according to a former senior FBI official and several other government officials.

Bongino’s role as the FBI’s second-highest-ranking official means he is responsible for day-to-day operations of the agency, including green-lighting surveillance missions, coordinating with intelligence agency partners and managing the bureau’s 56 field offices across the country. The deputy director receives some of the country’s most closely held secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief, which also contains intelligence from the CIA and the National Security Agency.

People familiar with the matter say his ascent to that position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented. ProPublica spoke with four people familiar with the polygraph issues, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the details of FBI background checks.

Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior experience at the bureau. Bongino had previously served in the Secret Service and worked as a New York City police officer. But he later gained millions of fans and followers in conservative circles for television and podcast appearances, having taken over Rush Limbaugh’s spot on numerous radio stations. Over the years, Bongino used those platforms to push conspiracy theoriesabout the 2020 election and professed his allegiance to President Donald Trump while railing against the agency he now helps lead.

He’s had a rocky tenure so far, marked by public fights with senior Cabinet officials and accusations that he leaked information to the press, which Bongino denied. In August, Trump appointed Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director at the FBI, setting off speculation that the White House had lost faith in Bongino. But he remains in the job.

ProPublica could not determine whether Bongino sat for a polygraph exam or what its results were. Though the existence of a polygraph waiver is an indication he may not have passed the test, it is possible Bongino received a preemptive exemption, a former senior FBI official with of the vetting program told ProPublica.<<

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On 11/1/2025 at 9:57 PM, shadrap said:

Cool.  So the “three people familiar with the situation “ , is the basis for your 3 page story?  actually the basis of your story is your TDS driven life.  Good luck 

Would you prefer that media just parrot what the administration is willing to talk about? Was Nixon being caught for Watergate a bad outcome? The release of the Pentagon papers?

This, along with many other examples, is a fairly new line of attack against journalism and other outcomes one may not appreciate. "Activist judges" and "lower courts can't tell POTUS what to do" are a couple more. These are foundational parts of the American experiment, discarded in the rush to absolve Trump of all potential abuses.

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44 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members

It’s looking more likely everyday that Kash  is deep state and on your side 

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1 hour ago, Fnord said:

Would you prefer that media just parrot what the administration is willing to talk about? Was Nixon being caught for Watergate a bad outcome? The release of the Pentagon papers?

This, along with many other examples, is a fairly new line of attack against journalism and other outcomes one may not appreciate. "Activist judges" and "lower courts can't tell POTUS what to do" are a couple more. These are foundational parts of the American experiment, discarded in the rush to absolve Trump of all potential abuses.

"three people familiar with the matter" ?  You find that credible?  So you can just make up what you want to injure a party based on that.  Anonymous sources?  same thing.  Not credible.  I suppose you find them credible so long as it conforms with what you want it to say?  Have at it.

I don't.

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Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
 

Long article by WSJ, snips below. What a mess.

On Halloween morning, FBI Director Kash Patel had a big announcement to make: “The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack,” he said in a 7:32 a.m. social-media post that referenced arrests in Michigan.

There was one problem: No criminal charges had yet been filed and local police weren’t aware of the details. Two friends of the alleged terrorists in New Jersey and Washington state caught wind of the arrests and moved up plans to leave the country, according to court documents and law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation. 

Justice Department leaders complained to the White House about Patel’s premature post, saying it had disrupted the investigation, administration officials said. 

In his nine months on the job, Patel has drawn flak from his bosses in the Justice Department and from his underlings at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he has fired dozens of agents deemed hostile to Donald Trump or to conservative ideals.

But the Halloween announcement wasn’t the biggest controversy to envelop the director that week. Patel hit the news for taking an FBI plane to attend a wrestling event where his girlfriend, a country western singer, performed, and then to her home in Nashville. A former FBI agent, Kyle Seraphin, publicized the trip and called the taxpayer funded travel in the middle of a shutdown “pathetic.”

After that, Patel visited a Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch, according to flight records and people familiar with the trip, which hasn’t been previously reported.

Patel’s travel has frustrated both Justice Department officials, who complained to the White House about it, and the White House itself, which had told cabinet officials months ago in writing to limit their travel, particularly if it was overseas or unrelated to Trump’s agenda, according to an administration official. Details about Patel’s trips to visit his girlfriend and an August trip to Scotland have been passed around the White House in recent days, officials said.

The FBI director is required by law to take the bureau’s private plane instead of commercial flights in order to have access to secure communications. If the travel is personal, the director is required to reimburse the government for the cost of a commercial flight—typically far less than the actual costs of private-jet use.

Patel has defended his travel, dismissing his critics as “clickbait haters.” A spokesman for the bureau said the director has taken only about a dozen personal trips since assuming the role in February, and had taken steps to cut down on travel costs. 

 

…Patel’s presence at the bureau has been something of a culture shock for a buttoned-up workforce, used to wearing suits and ties. Instead, Patel has appeared at events in hooded sweatshirts, jeans or hunting vests, and often speaks colloquially, calling agents “cops,” and telling podcaster Joe Rogan that the job of FBI director was “effin wild.”

He has also handed out an oversize commemorative coin to colleagues resembling the logo of the Marvel “Punisher” character, who came to embody a general distrust of the U.S. justice system. The coin also has a large number nine on it, in a reference to himself as the FBI’s ninth director. 
 

…After Patel left government, he pounced on the man he would later succeed, Chris Wray, for using a government jet for an Adirondacks holiday. “Chris Wray, hey, you don’t need a government-funded G5 jet so you can fly off to the Adirondacks for vacation,” Patel said during a September 2023 appearance on the X22 Report podcast. 
 

That has fueled critics of Patel’s recent travel itinerary. The Justice Department’s Gulfstream G550 took nine trips to Las Vegas—where Patel lived before running the FBI—and seven others to Nashville, according to a Wall Street Journal review of flight records. 

On a late October Friday, he took the FBI private jet to State College, Pa., for a Real American Freestyle Wrestling event where his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, was performing the national anthem. The next day, the same FBI plane traveled to Nashville. 

That Sunday, the FBI jet landed in San Angelo, Texas, where Patel visited the Boondoggle Ranch, owned by the family of a Republican donor and friend of Patel’s, C.R. “Bubba” Saulsbury Jr. The plane stayed in San Angelo until Wednesday. The government was shut down, and much of the FBI workforce was working but not getting paid.

The ranch’s website, which was taken down after the Journal reached out for comment on the trip, describes itself as a “scenic hunting resort nestled in the heart of Texas.” It had said that the ranch, which isn’t open to the public, offers luxury accommodations and the opportunity to see more than a dozen different species of animals including kudu, addax, blue wildebeest, and Nile and red lechwe.

Saulsbury has posted photos of himself with Patel, including at Patel’s swearing-in ceremony at the White House in February and visiting FBI headquarters in June. 

While Patel’s travel has become a source of gossip within the bureau, his firings in particular have riled the broader workforce. <<

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16 hours ago, shadrap said:

"three people familiar with the matter" ?  You find that credible?  So you can just make up what you want to injure a party based on that.  Anonymous sources?  same thing.  Not credible.  I suppose you find them credible so long as it conforms with what you want it to say?  Have at it.

I don't.

Well journalistic standards dictate multiple sources corroborating a story, and that those sources be vetted. I suspect you're of the opinion that these outlets just make stuff up, but they do not. Mistakes are made, of course. That's what retractions are for, as well as libel and slander laws. Anonymity of the sources protects them from retaliation. 

Seems to me that you are more likely to dismiss what you don't want to hear than I am. If you're never going to trust anonymous sources you might as well just believe everything politicians tell you. Maybe you're okay doing that, I'm not.

 

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7 hours ago, Fnord said:

Well journalistic standards dictate multiple sources corroborating a story, and that those sources be vetted. I suspect you're of the opinion that these outlets just make stuff up, but they do not. Mistakes are made, of course. That's what retractions are for, as well as libel and slander laws. Anonymity of the sources protects them from retaliation. 

Seems to me that you are more likely to dismiss what you don't want to hear than I am. If you're never going to trust anonymous sources you might as well just believe everything politicians tell you. Maybe you're okay doing that, I'm not.

 

not even close.  I'm not posting or believing any reported story based on people familiar with the matter or anonymous.  Headlines are on the 1st page, retractions come on the 4th page.  Cripes, after all the mis-information and outright lies based on these fine sources the last 10 years I won't give any credibility to them.   3 years of MSNBC about having credible unnamed sources that Trump 100 %  colluded with Russia is enough for me.  Every fricking night for 3 plus years, including CNN.  Garbage in, garbage out.  Of course they were fine with the sources so long as they claimed what they wanted to be true.  You want to put credibility  with those type of sources, fine by me.

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17 minutes ago, shadrap said:

not even close.  I'm not posting or believing any reported story based on people familiar with the matter or anonymous.  Headlines are on the 1st page, retractions come on the 4th page.  Cripes, after all the mis-information and outright lies based on these fine sources the last 10 years I won't give any credibility to them.   3 years of MSNBC about having credible unnamed sources that Trump 100 %  colluded with Russia is enough for me.  Every fricking night for 3 plus years, including CNN.  Garbage in, garbage out.  Of course they were fine with the sources so long as they claimed what they wanted to be true.  You want to put credibility  with those type of sources, fine by me.

Amen.