Outsider Patel Would Restore FBI, Nation to Decency

Christopher Wray announced Wednesday that he will step down from his position as FBI Director in early January.

This came weeks after President-elect Donald Trump announced that he intended to replace Wray with lawyer-investigator and bureau outsider Kashyap "Kash" Patel.

Yesterday the Inspector General (IG) for the Department of Justice released a report that may indicate why the FBI director may be so eager to leave.

Since the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot, the FBI has insisted that it had taken no part in the disturbance. Although the IG report indicates that no agents were directly involved, it noted that there were confidential human sources (CHSs) that took part in the riot.

"BREAKING," began Julie Kelly, an investigative journalist for RealClearInvestigations. DOJ IG claims 26 FBI informants were in DC on Jan 6. (Guarantee this is not accurate)"

She explained to Newsmax host Chris Salcedo that if the IG found 26, there were certainly a lot more.

Kelly added that the CHSs were doing more than just observing and reporting.

"At least 17 committed offenses for which other J6ers have been federally charged.” However, "No CHS was charged."

Townhall compared the confidential informants to the J6 defendants.

"1,488 people were charged for J6 related incidents," they reported, for which "894 pled guilty to various offenses," including:

• 288 pled guilty to felonies
• 606 pled guilty to misdemeanors

Townhall concluded, "There were ZERO CHARGES BROUGHT against the FBI's 26 Confidential Human Sources who were on the ground on January 6th."

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, raised the issue that the IG’s disclosure could have been relevant to all J6 defendants.

"The new IG report on January 6th may raise more questions than answers," he said.

"It confirms that confidential sources did indeed enter the Capitol and restricted areas. The question is whether the presence of these sources were revealed to the defense in the hundreds of prosecutions."

One would guess that would be a no.

Earlier this year the FBI director testified before the House Oversight Committee on the assassination attempts on President Trump’s life. During that hearing Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., likened the security failures that nearly took Trump’s life to the security failures on January 6.

"Did you have confidential human sources there?" she asked Wray.

"I think you never did answer that question on January 6. Did you have some?"

She had to repeat the question before he answered, "Again, I’m never gonna be getting into when and where we have or have not used confidential human sources."

Spartz and Wray went back and forth on the issue for more than two minutes before the FBI director finally indicated that there was an Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice report "that is underway that I think addresses some of these topics."

Wray clearly knew, but he didn’t want to publicly admit it .

That hearing was held June 24. Nearly six months later the IG report came out.

The day before it came out Wray announced his departure from the FBI.

Phil Holloway, a Townhall columnist and host of "Inside the Law," connected the dots.

"Now we know the real reason Christopher Wray is resigning," he said.

And that’s why we need an outsider like Kash Patel to run and clean out the bureau.

He’s a former DOJ prosecutor and former deputy to the Director of National Intelligence, so he’s not unfamiliar with Washington. But as an FBI outsider his loyalty would be more to the American people than it would be to the bureau — the exact opposite of Wray.

This week we’ve seen politicians and media figures condemn a young New York subway hero for coming to the aid of his fellow passengers, while celebrating another young man for murdering an insurance executive in cold blood.

Hopefully, an outsider taking over the reins of the bureau will be one step, however small it may be, to restoring decency to the nation.

Michael Dorstewitz is a retired lawyer and has been a frequent contributor to Newsmax. He is also a former U.S. Merchant Marine officer and a Second Amendment supporter. Read Michael Dorstewitz's Reports — More Here.