'Insane rants': Ex-FBI deputy head gives blistering putdown of agency's potential new boss

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Monday trashed President-elect Donald Trump's decision to nominate political henchman Kash Patel to be the next director of the FBI.

During an appearance on CNN, McCabe argued that Patel is "clearly not" qualified for the job, and he said that "he doesn't have a fraction of the qualifications that any former FBI director, chosen by any president, has."

He then said that Patel's lack of qualifications for the job were only secondary to his concerns that Trump was appointing him to take the agency "back to the FBI's regretful history of acting as, essentially, the enforcement arm for the president's political activities."

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He went on to argue that it would be crucial for senators to force Patel to elaborate on his plans for the agency during confirmation hearings.

"Every new FBI director takes it in a different direction, makes it something it wasn't before, that's a good and healthy process," he said.

"But we've heard nothing of that from Kash Patel except these insane rants about 'the footprint is too big — I don't even know what that means — sending people out to work as police officers and turning the headquarters into a museum.

"None of that will actually happen. But what sort of burn-it-all-down damage is he going to do, because he really has no really other credible direction to take the agency?"

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