Kash Patel has plans to remake FBI into Trump's tool

"FIRE THE TOP ranks of the FBI" Encourage Congress to demand testimony exposing "every single bit of filth and corruption" at the agency, and withhold its funding "until the documents come in." Prosecute leakers and journalists. Replace the national security work force with "people who won't undermine the president's agenda."

- THE NEW YORK TIMES

These are among a long list of changes Kash Patel recommended in his 2023 book, "Government Gangsters." President-elect Donald J. Trump has now said he intends to make Mr. Patel the next F.B.I. director. Trump had wanted to install Mr. Patel as deputy FBI director during his first term, but Attorney General William P. Barr, who portrayed him as manifestly unqualified in his own memoir, told the White House that Mr. Patel would become deputy F.B.I. director "over my dead body."

Barr has since been banished from Trump's circle, and Patel's book and other past statements are coming under fresh scrutiny as a guide to his aspirations.