Disgraced former FBI officials who failed to find Trump campaign collusion with Russia have begun smearing Kash Patel — the House Intelligence Committee investigator who exposed Russiagate as a hoax — suggesting that he will be ensnared in the FBI’s investigation of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and threatening that he should be quiet and get a lawyer.
In a recent interview with MSNBC, Andrew Weissman, the chief prosecutor for former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s unsuccessful investigation into whether then-President Donald Trump and the Russian government colluded, suggested that Patel was “clearly in the crosshairs” because the Department of Justice refused to remove his name from the FBI affidavit used to raid Mar-a-Lago. Weissman claimed that “Kash Patel…needs to actually be getting a lawyer” without elaborating.
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Recently, Patel was reported to be in trouble by Peter Strzok, the former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division who oversaw the investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016. “It’s never nice to see your name in a search warrant affidavit without any redactions. I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’ve ever received in your life, to paraphrase Eric Hirschmann. You’re going to need a terrific F’ing criminal defense attorney,” he tweeted.
David Ignatius, a Washington Post journalist, recently wrote a hit article on Patel in which he also implied that Patel would be in danger. Ignatius was the first to report on the leaked classified contents of a call between then-former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and a Russian diplomat. Ignatius forebodingly declared, “I suspect that a sequel is on the way, where Kash and King Donald’s other knights will duel with what they allege are government gangsters—and this won’t be a children’s book.”
Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor, recently asserted on CNN that Patel is “implicated” in some wrongdoing. She reportedly said, “If I were him, I would stay quiet,” in an effort to convince him to quit challenging the mainstream media’s account of the Mar-a-Lago raid.
In an interview with Breitbart News on Saturday, Patel addressed the cautions and threats made by Weissman and Strzok, saying:
Despite having practically limitless resources at their disposal, Weissman and Strzok made their best effort to imprison Trump but were unsuccessful. They are now only capable of making ridiculous threats against me on cable TV and social media. They both serve as concrete examples of people who, in the course of their obsessive vengeance against the former president, became so consumed by their hatred of Trump that they destroyed their reputations, their jobs, and their souls. That they are now attempting to target me as the Russia Gate investigator who fired Strzok and stopped Weissman’s witch hunt before it even began is expected.
“They want to try to get me in an obstruction of justice trap for allegedly obstructing a federal investigation into Donald Trump’s handling of sensitive information, but I don’t know how that would be possible as I’ve never talked to a single fed on it,” he continued.
The recently released FBI affidavit cited a May 5, 2022, Breitbart News article of an interview with Patel where he named a February 18, 2022, NBC News report that said the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) found items marked “classified” among 15 boxes of White House records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022. Patel told Breitbart News that the report was “misleading” since Trump had already declassified sets of documents, but that the classification markings had not been updated.
Patel said on Saturday he had no idea what documents were at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided. However, he said what he does know is that declassified Russiagate documents were among those handed over to NARA back in January 2022, and that those have been given to the DOJ with no word on when they might be given back.
Patel said those Russiagate documents have never been publicly released. After NARA took possession of them in January, they were given to the DOJ to be viewed for any personal identifiable information (PII) and were supposed to be given back to NARA, but have not yet been returned.
“Remember, Devin [Nunes] and I have always said we got out about 60% of the Russiagate stuff we wanted to get out. The rest was in that binder,” he said.
Patel said even though Trump had designated him as his representative to NARA on June 19, 2022, in order to facilitate the release of already declassified Russiagate documents, Patel has not had the opportunity to review any documents NARA possesses from before or after the raid, since NARA has claimed they could not verify his security clearance.
“They’re playing bureaucratic gymnastics where their position is, ‘We can’t verify your security clearance,’ even though I know I have active security clearance that’s been verified by multiple government agencies,” he said. “After asking for an update on the binder of documents and other material, NARA has said, ‘Oh, we sent it to DOJ. We don’t know what’s here anymore.’ You know, it’s the total run around.”
Patel said it is no coincidence that the people who are threatening him and are in charge of the current FBI investigation into the documents are the same people embroiled in the Russiagate scandal, which means they have the most to lose if the documents are released.
“The same Russiagate people who started that investigation are now running DOJ and are the same FBI guys at counterintelligence running this investigation. They all know the information we discovered — Devin and I — during Russiagate. And they all know what didn’t get out as a result of that big binder of stuff not ever being released by Trump,” he said.
“Some of the same counterintelligence guys that John Durham is looking at who worked for Strzok and Priestap are working on the Hunter Biden laptop case, and this case and others — it’s the same crew,” he said.
“The same people that were supposed to have committed Russiagate are now back in charge, and they know that if they go in and raid Trump’s house and say we have an ongoing counterintelligence investigation, that the documents will never be released,” he said. “They’re afraid of more of their corruption being exposed, more of their unlawful conduct. What happens when the rest comes out?”
On July 12, 2018, in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, Deputy Assistant FBI Director Peter Strzok testified before a joint committee hearing of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees. Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page communicated through text while working on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server in 2016. The texts were scathing of Trump. Mueller terminated Strzok’s participation in his inquiry into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to win the 2016 election after becoming aware of the messages.
According to him, Strzok and Weissman in particular are aware of what the Russiagate docs state. Coincidentally, he said, “Now these individuals are screaming that I need to get a lawyer.”
The House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the origins of Russiagate was conducted by former federal prosecutor Patel, who also wrote a document that exposed DOJ and FBI wrongdoing and resulted in the termination of those implicated, including Strzok.
The investigation and subsequent memo revealed that the DOJ and FBI were aware of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and that the Democratic National Committee had paid for the production of the so-called “Steele Dossier,” which claimed that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia and was based on foreign disinformation. Despite this, the DOJ and FBI used the “Dossier” to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s campaign.
After conducting an investigation, the DOJ inspector general discovered that Strzok had sent texts to FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital relationship, that were “not only indicative of a biased state of mind but imply a willingness to take official action to impact a presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.” The FBI and the Department of Justice’s core beliefs are at odds with this, the DOJ inspector general stated, according to the study. In the lead-up to the 2016 election, additional Hillary Clinton emails were discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. The inspector general chastised Strzok for failing to investigate these emails.
Patel claimed he thought the DOJ intentionally left his name in the affidavit without being redacted in retaliation.
“I’m the Russiagate investigator who made them accountable for their corruption. Strzok, Comey, and McCabe were all fired as a result of our efforts. At the FBI and DOJ, we also fired or forced Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr to retire early. These guys are in authority once again, and they are aware of the materials we uncovered. The same is true for Weissman because they had access to all of those records while he was Mueller’s man… The fact that these same individuals are now uniting to target the one person who exposed their wrongdoing is therefore no coincidence, he said.
According to Patel, the FBI has been looking into death threats against him for the previous ten months before deciding not to redact his name. These people have the emails. They are filthy. They’re repulsive, said Patel. He claimed that the DOJ released the affidavit with his name on it on the same day the FBI decided to stop its investigation into the death threats.
“They made the decision to stop looking into my death threats, therefore it is still ongoing. Threats fueled by racism and hatred are flooding in, he said.
“It’s on purpose. They might as well have simply redacted it. In reality, given that everything prior to my name has been censored, DOJ/FBI procedures mandate such redaction. It was done solely to indirectly threaten me and [Breitbart] for publishing that story, he claimed. “Now that the deep state has completed a full circle, America is witnessing its corruption once again, with no regard for my safety.”
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