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With the confirmation of Kash Patel later this week, Mr. Trump’s agency team will be complete. What follows will be a Krakatoa of revelation, drastically altering the climate of US politics for years to come. You should learn exactly how many FBI and CIA agents were moiling and roiling in the J-6 mob. You’ll find out what the J-6 DNC pipe bomb caper was all about.

"What follows will be a Krakatoa of revelation..."

If we could climb into a functional hot tub time machine (might as well be comfortable), it would be fun to return to the top floor of the Hoover Building in Washington on January 7th, 2021— right before they carved our justice system in twain. When the agency’s top brass discussed launching the largest FBI operation in history against unarmed, first-time-offending Trump supporters, for trespassing, we could listen to see if anyone in the room warned them that, “you know, we could get some blowback over this.” Yesterday, four years later, the FBI did get some serious blowback, and blowback’s name is Dan Bongino. Behold, the New York Times headline that nobody, especially not the FBI, saw coming: “Right-Wing Commentator Named F.B.I. Deputy Director.”

The Baby Boomers have now been purged from control of the nation’s two-tiered justice system, and the Gen-Xers are firmly in charge.

In case you aren’t familiar with him, Dan Bongino, 50, is a former New York City police officer, a former Secret Service agent, and earned a Penn State MBA (“unqualified!”). He hosts a popular conservative podcast, was a Fox anchor during the difficult years, and has published at least seven books, including 2018’s Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump.

Yesterday, President Trump announced that newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel hired Dan to be the agency’s Deputy Director — Patel’s number two — a job not requiring any Senate confirmation.

Around this point in the story, an exhausted Times summoned the strength to weakly protest: too much politics. The FBI, claimed the Times, is “an agency known for its tradition of independence.” Apolitical. Huh? Is that true? Is that really what the FBI is known for? “Independence?” What do you think?

Oh, well. Set aside the Times’ silly opinions.

Suffice it to say, the Times feels dissed and disgruntled. It might not have been illegal, but the Times whined that Bongino’s appointment was “radical,” an “abrupt departure” from normal bureaucratic norms and customs. (Ironically, that was precisely why we voted for a Trump Administration: to end ‘business as usual’ in Washington.) But that wasn’t all. The Grey Lady labeled Patel and Bongino misinformation superspreaders and sneered that they were the “least experienced leadership pair” in the FBI’s history.

But … doesn’t that evaluation depend on what kind of experience we’re talking about? Both Bongino and Patel, for example, have written entire books about FBI malfeasance. Does that count? Now, the profoundly skeptical pair run the agency. They aren’t likely to be co-opted by the permanent bureaucrats, either, since they both stuck to their guns during Trump’s wilderness years at great personal cost (Bongino, for example, was fired from Fox after platforming Trump in 2023).

FBI, meet blowback. Blowback is your new boss.

You know, Pelosi and the FBI kind of fucked themselves by arranging the 9/11 entrapment scheme