Donald Trump nominates Indian American Kash Patel as FBI Director

Presidentelect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated close confidante Kash Patel for the powerful position of Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation making him the highest ranking Indian American in his incoming administration reported news agency PTII am proud to announce that Kashyap Kash Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kash is a brilliant lawyer investigator and America First fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption defending Justice and protecting the American People Trump announced on Truth Social a social media platform he ownsTrump said Patel played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia Russia Russia Hoax standing as an advocate for truth accountability and the Constitution Patel 44 served as chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense in the last few weeks of the Trump Administration in 2017Kash did an incredible job during my First Term where he served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense Deputy Director of National Intelligence and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council Kash has also tried over 60 jury trials he said reported PTIThis FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America dismantle the migrant criminal gangs and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border Kash will work under our great Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring back Fidelity Bravery and Integrity to the FBI Trump said reported PTINew Yorkborn Patel has his roots in Gujarat However his parents are from East Africa mother from Tanzania and father from Uganda They came to the US from Canada in 1970 We are Gujarati he had told PTI in an earlier interviewThe family moved to Queens in New York often called as Little India in the late 70s It is here that Patel was born and grew Patels parents are retired now and spend their time in both the US and Gujarat After his schooling in New York and college in Richmond Virginia and law school in New York Patel went to Florida where he was a state public defender for four years and then federal public defender for another four yearsSo lots of trials lots of international investigations lots of time in court understanding the federal system and trying cases and learning how to run investigations he saidFrom Florida he moved to Washington DC as a terrorism prosecutor at the Department of Justice Here he was an international terrorism prosecutor for about three and a half years During this period he worked on cases all over the world in America in East Africa as well as in Uganda and KenyaWhile still employed by the Department of Justice he went as a civilian to join Special Operations Command at the Department of Defense At the Pentagon he sat as the Department of Justices lawyer with Special Forces people and worked interagency collaborative targeting operations around the worldAfter a year in the position Congressman Davin Nunes Chairman of the House Permanent Select on Intelligence Committee pulled him as senior counsel on counterterrorism After April 2017 he spearheaded the Russia investigation of the House Intelligence Committee It was here where he attracted media attention and played a key role in drafting a GOP memo which according to thenPresident Donald trump exposed the role of Democratic party and its leadership in the Russian investigationThe New York Times described this as a Kash Memo Patel said that this was a great team effortPatel is an Ice hockey fan and has been playing the sport since he was six I still play and I spend a lot of time volunteering coaching youth hockey in the areaPatel who attended both the Houston and Ahmedabad rallies of Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in September 2019 and February 2020 had earlier told PTI that the bilateral relationship had deteriorated under the Biden AdministrationPresident Trump and Prime Minister Modi had an extraordinary relationship with respect And they were working together to counteract the things like Chinese aggression not just on the Indian border but on the global stage They were also working together to counteract things in Pakistan when it came to counterterrorism matters and hostage situations Patel said reported PTIThe two leaders knew that not only the strong relationship but also allowing the economies of scale to be built in India and America were mutually beneficial Patel said Last fall he wrote the book Government Gangster which argued that there is a severe lack of accountability The book talks about the deep state and is highly critical of the US bureaucracy which he claims is highly infiltrated or dominated by lawbreakersResponding to a question Patel then told PTI that the Biden Administration and the deep state are interwovenThe Biden administration is filled by these corrupt government gangsters who I list in the back of my book by name and title Its not a Democrat or Republican thing Its an apolitical thing that these individuals whether theyre Trump appointees like Christopher W Ray or Biden appointees like Merrick Garland they are led to this two tier system of justice where they weaponise government and intelligence and law enforcement to target either conservatives or Trump supporters or call people on January 6th domestic terrorists he said reported PTIWith inputs from PTI