Key Points
Trump choosing Matt Gaetz as the attorney general, Pete Hegset as the secretary of defense and Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence has not gone down well with his critics who accuse the new picks of inexperience besides many other shortcomings...
Trumps short-lived former first-term communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNNs Jake Tapper that the president-elects personnel selections were purposely meant to own the liberals..
Three years after he joining the Justice Department, Patel was hired as a staffer for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence led by Rep. Devin Nunes, a fierce Trump ally..
As per the ABC News report, Patel said he has personally "recommended" to Trump that the new administration also strip any security clearances still held by the 51 then-former intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan, who in October 2020, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, signed onto a letter dismissing the public release of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop as part of a "Russian information operation."..
In another recent podcast, about FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. -- where more than 7,000 agents, analysts, administrative personnel and other employees work -- Patel said that the new Trump administration should "close that building down", ABC News reported..
