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Who is Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel, Donald Trump loyalist, likely to be next CIA chief?
FP ExplainersNovember 7, 2024, 08:51:52 IST
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Kash Patel began his career as a public defender in Florida where he tried murder, narco-trafficking, and financial crime cases in state and federal courts. Image courtesy: defense.gov
With Donald Trump returning to power, the United States will likely get an Indian-origin Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief. Kash Patel, a close ally of Donald Trump, is being considered for the role.
Even before the US media called the election declaring Trump the winner, the Republican candidate had prepared a list of potential names who would be part of his new administration. While the first administration was, to a large extent, staffed by many establishment Republicans, Trump 2.0 is expected to look nothing like that.
However, Trump seems likely to go with true believers on the second go-around. Prime among those is Kashyap ‘Kash’ Patel – described as the man who would ‘do anything for Trump.
Patel is expected to play a critical role in his administration – perhaps as the CIA chief.
But who is Patel? What do we know about him?
Let’s take a closer look:
Early years of Kash Patel
Patel, who has Gujarati ancestry, was born in New York’s Garden City in 1980.
As per The Atlantic, Patel has said his parents grew up in East Africa. His father Pramod left Uganda in the 1970s when Idi Amin was dictator. His parents moved to Long Island and settled down.
Patel said the family shared their home with eight of his father’s siblings.
Growing up, he was raised Hindu. The family made frequent visits to temples.
Patel completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Richmond. He got the idea of becoming a lawyer after caddying for some rich and powerful New Yorkers.
“I could be a first-generation immigrant lawyer at a white shoe firm making a ton of money,” he wrote in his biography.
He later returned to New York – where he got his law degree from Pace University, as per The Atlantic.
He also earned a Certificate in International Law from University College London Faculty of Laws in the United Kingdom.
However, Patel found no takers at white shoe law firms. “Dreams of the sky-high salary at the prestige law firms never materialised,” he wrote in his book as per The New York Times. “Nobody would hire me.”
Patel instead began his career as a public defender in Florida where he tried murder, narco-trafficking, and financial crime cases in state and federal courts.
He spent nearly nine years before joining the Justice Department.
In 2014, Patel left Florida for Washington DC.
Here, he landed a job in the counterterrorism department of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
By 2017, Patel, by now thoroughly disgruntled by the bureaucracy in DC, went to work for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chaired by Republican Devin Nunes – a fierce Trump ally.
Trump had come to power after defeating Hillary Clinton in a stunning upset the previous year.
But now he was being investigated by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller III over Russian election interference.
Patel, who served as the lead investigator of the committee, was hired to “to bust doors down,” Nunes said in the book The Plot Against the President, as per The New York Times.
Patel also took the lead role in penning the infamous ‘Nunes memo’ – which claimed the Russia investigation was nothing but a political operation to sabotage the Trump presidency.
The four-page report that detailed how it said the Justice Department had erred in obtaining a warrant to surveil a former Trump campaign volunteer.
The memo’s release faced vehement opposition from the Justice Department.
A subsequent inspector general report identified significant problems with FBI surveillance during the Russia investigation but also found no evidence that the FBI had acted with partisan motives in conducting the probe.
Patel also leaked intelligence committee emails about then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to Fox News.
By 2018, Patel’s boss Nunes was out of a job. A backlash against the Trump presidency saw the Republicans being swept out of power in the mid-terms.
Nunes now approached the White House for a job for Patel.
“We didn’t want to hire him, and we resisted three times when Devin Nunes called,” Charles Kupperman, deputy to then NSA John Bolton told the newspaper. “Clearly he had intellect, but he was untrustworthy, cancerous with staff and had his own agenda.”
Shut up lah imbecilePerhaps Mr Patel would make a good Ambassador to Pakistan. It is not a joke or an under-estimation of the controversial worth of Mr Patel.
For decades, impoverish Pakistan Rulers had relied on US taxpayer funding & military aide, along with Saudi Arabia. With all that funding, there was little to show that Pakistanis had improved the lives of its people - many of the minorities are still persecuted & the majority thru religious supremacy ideologies that supported terrorism, & shown even contempt for USA.
Maybe Mr Patel would make a better job of getting some serious payback from the Pakistanis, in terms of intelligence & social uplifting for the enormous funds over years that Pakistan had obtained from USA taxpayers & Saudi Arabia's oil wealth.
He will order your assasination.Perhaps Mr Patel would make a good Ambassador to Pakistan. It is not a joke or an under-estimation of the controversial worth of Mr Patel.
For decades, impoverish Pakistan Rulers had relied on US taxpayer funding & military aide, along with Saudi Arabia. With all that funding, there was little to show that Pakistanis had improved the lives of its people - many of the minorities are still persecuted & the majority thru religious supremacy ideologies that supported terrorism, & shown even contempt for USA.
Maybe Mr Patel would make a better job of getting some serious payback from the Pakistanis, in terms of intelligence & social uplifting for the enormous funds over years that Pakistan had obtained from USA taxpayers & Saudi Arabia's oil wealth.