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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, FBI director Kash Patel announced a suspect in custody when Tyler Robinson was still at large. That caused the conservative Christopher Rufo to wondering if Patel was the right man for the FBI job. That charge leaves plenty to ponder.
The FBI failed to prevent the assassination of Kirk, so Patel’s haste to pin down a suspect is understandable, and much of what emerges in the early going is wrong. The fugitive was only captured when relatives turned him in, which brings to mind another case.
The victims of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski included Yale computer scientist David Gelernter, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and California lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. Kaczynski eluded the FBI for 17 years and was only captured, in 1996, after his brother identified his writing in a manifesto published by the New York Times. Patel may have had that case in mind, along with other failures.
The FBI failed to prevent 9/11 and terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015) and Orlando (2016), and the FBI played no role in the takedown of the terrorists. Despite the colossal failures, in recent years the bureau has indulged mission creep.
Like the CIA, the FBI was a major player in the Russia hoax against candidate and president Trump, but FBI director Christopher Wray denied that the bureau spied on the Republican. The FBI harassed Trump officials and mounted armed raids on his residence. Under Biden, the FBI targeted pro-life activists, and peacefully protesting parents, but there was more to it.
Protection of the president accrues to the Secret Service, but on August 9, 2023 an FBI SWAT team shot dead Craig Robertson, a 75-year-old woodworker who had allegedly made threats against Biden online. That came nearly a year after Joe Biden, in a hate-drenched speech, charged that Americans who want their nation to be great pose the greatest threat. At this writing, Congress has yet to conduct an investigation on the shooting of Robertson, or other cases that raise more serious questions about the bureau.
On February 21, 2020, in Amador County, California, Philip Haney, 66, was found dead from a gunshot. Means and opportunity were apparent, but a shooting death always involves a motive. In Haney’s case, the possibilities loomed large. In 2016 Haney authored See Something Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad. The Amador authorities handed Haney’s devices to the FBI, which conducted no manhunt and announced no suspects.
According to forensic pathologist Katherine Raven MD, cause of death was a “perforating gunshot wound of torso,” and Dr. Raven ruled it a “homicide autopsy.” Under a sheriff who had attended the FBI academy, Amador officials later changed the cause of death to suicide. The Department of Homeland Security ruled that Haney possessed “contraband,” so in effect the dead man was charged with a crime. Kash Patel can show leadership by investigating this case, and the murder of Seth Rich, director of voter expansion for the Democratic National Committee.
On July 10, 2016, the 27-year-old was gunned down in Washington DC. Police called it a street robbery gone wrong, but the shooters did not take Rich’s wallet, watch or phone. Weeks after the murder, as the BBC reported, “Wikileaks published 20,000 emails obtained from Democratic National Committee computers via an anonymous source.”
The FBI took possession of Rich’s laptop and demanded 66 years, a proxy for “never,” to produce data the bureau previously denied it even possessed. Kash Patel can show leadership by revealing everything the FBI knows about this case. The Trump pick can also explain the bureau’s strange behavior in a recent mass murder.
On March 27, 2023 in the run-up to the “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale murdered nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, along with adults Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill and Cynthia Peak at the Covenant School in Nashville. Motive is the central factor in any murder cause but the FBI refused to release Hale’s lengthy manifesto, an obstruction supported by trans activists. That would change under Patel.
On August 27, in Minneapolis, Robin Westman – born Robert Westman but who “identified” as a woman – opened fire on worshippers at the Annunciation Catholic Church and school. Westman killed eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, 10-year-old Harper Moyski, and wounded 17 others before killing himself. NPR said the shooter’s gender was “unclear” but Patel wasn’t having it.
“As we continue to investigate yesterday’s barbaric attack from Robert Westman, the male subject,” Patel told reporters on Thursday, “our teams have gathered information and evidence demonstrating this was an act of domestic terrorism motivated by a hate-filled ideology.” Westman left “multiple anti-Catholic, anti-religious references both in his manifesto and written on his firearms” and “expressed hatred and violence toward Jewish people, writing ‘Israel must fall,’ ‘Free Palestine,’ and using explicit language related to the Holocaust.
It now emerges that Tyler Robinson’s roommate was the transgender Lance Twiggs, 22. Charlie Kirk debated devotees of the LBGTQ construct, and was discussing murders by transgender shooters before a bullet took him down. Patel’s critics might compare the response of FBI director Christopher Wray to the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump in July of 2024.
With the best ballistics experts under his command, Wray claimed Trump could have been hit by “shrapnel,” not one of the eight shots Thomas Matthew Crooks got off from an ideal rooftop position. If anybody thought the FBI was out to minimize an obvious assassination attempt it would be hard to blame them.
Patel’s task is to prevent future assassinations but there’s plenty of unfinished business. To transform the bureau into a force for truth and justice, Patel should tell the people which official in the FBI’s Washington office called off the surveillance on Maj. Nidal Hasan, the “Solider of Allah” who murdered 14 Americans at Fort Hood in 2009. The people have a right to know, and in 2025 moving forward it’s all about memory against forgetting.
The FBI can never be cleaned out. It can only be closed, the employees fired and not rehired. But as with all bureaucracies they have enough blackmail info on congress to keep that from happening.
True, so true, Madame.
Its stench has permeated the very walls of the place. Such contamination is impossible to be removed completely. Best results would be gained by complete, immediate defunding and starting a replacement org in a different place with completely different and new set of worker bees. One suggestion might be place it in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Of course, we know none of this will occur with so many fat cats in our Congress.
Hoover had enough evidence on enough people to make the FBI what it is.
Patel has his job cut out for him. He’s an honest man but honesty only brings you so far.
Patel’s congressional hearing was what I have been waiting for years. He gave a textbook performance for anyone facing the ad hominem attacks by the unstable liberal politicians. For years witnesses have been berated by the arrogance of the Democrat senators and congressmen. Kash schooled them on how he wants to be treated. Someone once said that you tell people how you want to be treated. Kash made them look like they were no match for him. This push back is necessary so that ranting and angry demagogues can be rebuked for their idiocy. Great job Kash.
Patel was responding to a group of obvious sociopaths. He did admirably in my little opinion. However, there are way too many rinos in the House and Senate to actually do much good.
I saw that. It was the usual “gotcha” accusations by the D-Bags. Patel did well. I’m surprised he didn’t lose his nut. I would’ve. When some obscure D-Rag was really going after him in a completely unhinged and idiotic manner I almost punched my TV, and I love my TV.
Nonsensical article. “The FBI failed to prevent the assassination of Kirk” is true. I suppose this author believes that it’s always possible to prevent violence. It is not. God might be able to if He wished. But the only way to PREVENT any further violence would be to keep every single human being in absolute isolation in prison.
This article is beneath this usually great publication.
The FBI is no-where close to being what its HR Dept advertises it to be especially not since Clinton, Obama, Biden finished it off. The decline entered a steepened slope with Hillary’s 900 FBI files lying on her desk, during Slick Willie’s tensure, and closed out with Biden’s seditious, clown act asking it go to after Catholics and parents attending school board meetings to complain about tax-payer schools pushing anti-biologic trannism. To make matters worse, the current and much more decent Admin clownishly mishandled a very public criminal case that involved a felon named Epstein. That no one, zilch, nadie, not one single person, has been brought before a court of justice for their obvious crimes suggests that about all that will be done to correct the gov/fbi debacle will be to change the position of the light shining on it.
While the murder of Charlie Kirk is terrible, and my heart goes out to his family , it’s not the job of the FBI to provide protection for every public speaker, evangelist, or potential politician. Especially in this case, where as far as we know the assassin had made no public threats about the victim before the assassination . That being said, I wish director Patel and Dep Bongino all the luck in the world righting the ship. They’re gonna need it.
Tranny Tyler Robinson is on video running around on a rooftop before and after he fired his hots. He was totally obvious. I COULD HAVE STOPPED HIM. I would’ve blown his addled brains out of his ass before he got off a shot.
The FBI has been inept for decades. Here’s a list of their blunders (1/2):
1. Wen Ho Lee (Accused spy, falsely said by FBI to have failed polygraph)
2. Richard Jewell (falsely accused of bombing Atlanta Olympics)
3. Tsaernev Brothers (Boston Marathon Bombers – Russia warned FBI that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a follower of Islamic extremism)*
4. Anthrax Case (FBI falsely accused Steven Hatfill of having sent anthrax through the mail)
5. Stoneman Douglas high school shooter (FBI failed to act on a tip that he had made threats to shoot up a school)
6. Orlando night club shooter (FBI investigated man who eventually shot 50 people to death, but could find no reason to keep him under suspicion)
7. Ruby Ridge (FBI sniper killed mother holding child, then FBI attempted cover-up)
8. Withholding evidence leading to wrongful conviction of four men, three of whom were sentenced to death (To protect mob informant Whitey Bulger. Two of the men died in prison before the FBI’s misconduct was remedied by a court).
9. Esteban Santiago (killed five people in a 2017 attack at the Fort Lauderdale Airport, had been investigated and ruled not a security threat by FBI)
Don’t forget the Branch Davidian Waco “compound.” The scummy feds murdered 86 children, women and men. ALL INNOCENT. I watched film and saw a plane shooting people up and a tractor driver deliberately run ove a guy who was prone and helpless.
Joke Bidumb defended those atrocities with his loudest loudmouth voice. Right in the Senate in front of America. Then he groped a prepubescent girl and smirked that yellow dentures grin..
(2/2)
10. Zacarias Moussaoui (FBI headquarters blocked agents who wanted to investigate Moussaoui, a conspirator in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center)
11. 1993 World Trade Center bombing (FBI had advance knowledge of bombing, and bungled a plan to substitute harmless powder for explosives)
12. Surveilled and falsely accused journalist of collaborating with terrorists (James Rosen had obtained information from a government contractor on North Korea’s intent to do nuclear and ballistic missile tests)
13. Raid on Branch Davidian compound in Waco (FBI killed dozens of men, women, and children. Destroyed evidence immediately afterward by bulldozing the site, and lost evidence collected by others.)
14. January 6th “Insurrection” (FBI Failed to arrest some individuals inciting the public to enter the capitol, and other individuals in the capitol during Jan 6 “insurrection”, all captured on video)
15. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping (FBI funded and encouraged a conspiracy to kidnap and kill the Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer)
16. Considered planting child porn on a person’s computer (Sharyl Atkisson testified before a congressional committee that, after she wrote about Benghazi and Fast and Furious, a federal agent told her the FBI planned to infect her husband’s computer with child porn. Testimony in an unrelated court case revealed the FBI had actually done that to someone else.)
17. College gymnast molester Larry Nassar (FBI officials made false statements and failed to conduct a thorough investigation of abuser of dozens of college gymnasts)
What good are they?
*FBI first denied they had contacted Tsaernav, but admitted it when Tsaernav’s mother told about her son being interviewed by FBI.
The FBI was just like it was under Clinton and never forget Waco and the Branch Davidians
Two obvious examples missed by the author: Coveyville, TX where Jews had to save themselves from an Islamic terrorist while dozens of overpaid federal agents say outside for hours , doing nothing. Later standing in front of Star of David, proclaiming, “This has nothing to do with the Jewish community.’
Before that, Malheur, OR, where deadbeats took over federal lands. FBI, as they did in Waco, and Coverville,spent days ‘ negotiating ‘ with the felons. Nevermind that the miscreants from Malheur were going into town to buy supplies and a children’s choir went in to entertain them.
The FBI has no capacity for negotiation or working a case effectively. State and local agents work 6x the number of cases at less than half the pay/benefits. Abolish federal law enforcement, starting with the FBI.