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Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to head the FBI, has a “record of executing the president’s directives” that “suggests a loyalty to individuals rather than the rule of law — a dangerous precedent for an agency tasked with impartial enforcement of justice.”
That is a quote from William Webster, who turns 101 years old on March 6, in a letter to senators first reported by Politico on December 26, 2024. The report was headlined “Former FBI and CIA head prods Senate to reject Patel, Gabbard,” with the subhead reading “William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither nominee meets the demands of top intelligence jobs.”
President Jimmy Carter picked Webster for FBI director in 1978, and he remained in the post until President Ronald Reagan selected him to head the CIA, where he remained until 1991, when he turned 67. The centenarian Webster’s letter is not shown in the Politico report, which cites no comment from any senator on its contents. So embattled Americans can have more than a reasonable doubt that Webster is in fact the author. Consider, for example, the notion that Kash Patel would set a “dangerous precedent.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation boast a budget of $11.3 billion and deploys 37,000 positions, 260 attorneys, and 13,606 agents. “The FBI’s mission is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. The FBI’s vision is to stay ahead of the threat,” but the mighty bureau failed to prevent to the events of July 13, 2024.
At the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas Mathew Crooks, 20, easily evaded Secret Service and state police to gain a rooftop shooting position. Crooks was able to get off eight shots, one wounding Trump and others killing attendee Cory Comperatore and wounding James Copenhaver and Donald Dutch.
Days later, FBI director Christopher Wray testified that “there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.” The FBI followed with a statement saying that the shooting resulted in the “injury” to Trump, implying that it was some sort of accident. As the FBI knows, the correct term for someone struck by a gunshot is wounded.
This absurdity prompted no statement from William Webster that FBI director Christopher Wray posed a danger to presidents and the public. In August, 2023, the FBI shot dead Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker, for threats against Biden and other Democrats he allegedly posted online. No statement from Webster about FBI bosses carrying out Biden’s orders.
In 2022, with Delaware Democrat Joe Biden in the White House, the FBI raided the Mar-a-Lago residence of Donald Trump, with armed FBI agents ransacking the closets of Melania Trump. That unprecedented action did not prompt William Webster to call out Wray for following the directives of Joe Biden and his handlers.
In 2017, Wray claimed that the FBI had not “spied” on candidate and President Trump, despite the actions of Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and such, and despite the FBI operations against Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s pick for national security advisor. In 2016, FBI boss James Comey claimed no reasonable prosecutor would take Hillary Clinton to court for multiple felonies, effectively keeping the Democrat in the race and out of trouble. None of that prompted an official letter from William Webster decrying FBI partisanship. It’s also hard to find a letter from Webster decrying the FBI’s strict obedience to President Obama, who shifted the FBI’s focus from terrorism to his domestic opposition.
Politico wants the people to believe that at the age of 100 Webster now pens a letter warning senators about Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. The Trump DNI pick alleged suffers from a “profound lack” of intel experience, for a post that “requires unparalleled expertise to navigate the complexities of global threats and to maintain the trust of allied nations,” because “without that trust, our ability to safeguard sensitive secrets and collaborate internationally is severely diminished.”
In 2020, 51 former intel bosses, including Obama CIA director John Brennan and former DNI James Clapper, signed a letter charging that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.” That failed to elicit a letter from William Sessions warning that the CIA was now peddling bogus information in a domestic partisan cause. That bias was confirmed by former CIA analyst John Gentry, author of Neutering the CIA: Why U.S. Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences. As the 2023 volume contends, the forces that triggered the attack on Trump “remain intact, available for reactivation in the event of another serious candidacy by Trump or the election of another Republican president.”
In similar style, John Brennan titled his 2020 book Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad. In Brennan’s view, Islamic jihad is “a holy struggle in pursuit of a moral goal” and not at all violent. The “enemies at home” are politicians that Brennan doesn’t like, Donald Trump in particular.
Back in 1976, Brennan voted for the Stalinist Gus Hall of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. In 1980 the CIA hired Brennan and in 2013 President Obama picked him to run the agency. William Webster did not publicly lament that the CIA was now headed by a man who never should have been hired in the first place. Senators have a right to wonder what Webster knew, when he knew it, and what, if anything, he did about it.
In 2001, the 77-year-old Webster kept rather quiet about CIA and FBI’s failure to prevent the massive terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. In 2024, with confirmation hearings for Patel and Gabbard at hand, the 100-year-old allegedly writes: “I urge you to weigh the critical importance of nonpartisan leadership and experience. The safety of the American people — and your own families — depends on it.” If senators and the American people believe the Webster letter is bogus it would be hard to blame them.
Thanks Lloyd !!!
Past a certain age some people’s judgement goes downhill, rather than becoming wiser with age.
I care about what this 100+ year old desiccated husk says and thinks like I care about what Carter thought.
Bless his soul, 101 years old and he’s still shilling for democrat causes. His letter tells us more about himself than it does Tulsi Gabbard or Kash Patel.
That anyone in the Senate would give any credence at all to mud-slinging from establishment bureaucrats says much about the sewer in the District of Corruption. It’s time to clear out the plumbing.