Kash Patel orders FBI to raid home of president’s political enemy
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When you read that headline, I hope it drives home how as a general matter it’s a bad thing for the head of the domestic security services to order a raid on the home of one of the Maximum Leader’s political enemies, NO MATTER WHO THAT PERSON IS.
FBI agents raided the home of President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday morning.
The feds have so far given no indication as to why Trump’s adviser turned nemesis has been targeted. He has previously been accused of leaking classified material but investigations into his controversial book The Room Where it Happened went nowhere.
Bolton appeared on the Daily Beast Podcast on Monday and took aim directly at Trump claiming he is the world’s worst negotiator.
Probably just a coincidence.
The dawn raid in the suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., was trumpeted with an X message from FBI director Kash Patel, who wrote, ”NO ONE is above the law.”
Rain on your wedding day alert. Also too, I’m not sure it’s standard practice for the FBI director to tweet out this kind of information in the midst of a purportedly legitimate criminal investigation, although it is kind of fun in a sick way to imagine what J. Edgar Hoover’s social media feed would have looked like back in the bad old days.
Speaking of the bad new days:
An FBI spokesman told the Daily Beast, “We don’t have any comment.” That did not stop FBI deputy director Dan Bongino from joining the social media pile on with a message that read: “Public corruption will not be tolerated.”
Bongino’s words had ominous echoes of politically-motivated judicial attacks the world over, but a source reportedly told NBC News that the raid was part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records.”
The fascist revolution will be both televised and tweeted.
. . . an interesting question here is whether a warrant for the search was issued ahead of time. My guess is that Patel ordered the raid on some emergency pretext and didn’t bother to try to get a warrant. Perhaps some journalist may investigate this question.
. . . should have also noted that this is the classic fash/authoritarian move of starting brazen political prosecutions/persecutions against enemies who have no friends among the political opposition.