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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNUNES ally gets top national security job
A former congressional staffer who worked feverishly to discredit the Russia investigation has recently been promoted on the National Security Council staff.
Kash Patel, who helmed the efforts of former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes to scrutinize the court-authorized surveillance of a Trump associate has taken on the role of Senior Director of the Counterterrorism Directorate of the National Security Council (NSC), according to two sources familiar with the move.
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Earlier this year, Patel left Capitol Hill for the NSCs Directorate of International Organizations and Alliances. His latest promotionto a leadership post focusing on counterterrorismhas not previously been reported. A spokesperson for the NSC declined to comment.
The vast majority of Hill staffers stay studiously out of the news. But Patel drew national attention in early 2018, when Nunes oversaw the production and release of a memo on surveillance of Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. The memo enraged officials at the Justice Department and the FBI, who said that they had no say in its creation and that it unfairly characterized standard intelligence-gathering practices. But it was a watershed moment for the rights critics of the Mueller probe and of senior DOJ leadership.
The memo was part of a broader effort from Nunes to investigate the origins of the FBIs counterintelligence probe into the Kremlin and the Trump campaignthe project that then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller took over. Nunes investigation-of-the-investigators picked up steam as the publics understanding of Russias 2016 interference skyrocketed. Many saw the effort as a way to run interference for the Trump administration, and Nunes decision to make a late-night visit to the White House early in the process only raised suspicions.
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NUNES ally gets top national security job (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Jul 2019
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Fullduplexxx
(7,878 posts)1. Lol .... oh how things could have been
Turbineguy
(37,406 posts)2. Another clown
who wants to go to jail for trump.
bdamomma
(63,959 posts)3. Jerks will do anything
even bring down the US for this clown. There's some big money being funneled away.
Initech
(100,132 posts)4. Seriously just put Kaspersky in charge of cyber security and get it over with.