President-elect Donald Trump's choice of uber-loyalist Kash Patel to be FBI director is a hair-on-fire moment. Trump is poised to install a team of toadies at the Justice Department - a flotilla of his criminal defense lawyers but most ominously an attorney general, Pam Bondi, who has vowed that "the prosecutors will be prosecuted" and now, with Patel, an FBI director who would add journalists to that list.
