Unlike any prior nominee for the position, Patel is a harsh critic of the Bureau. In his book Government Gangsters: the Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for our Democracy, he has called for "a new Church Committee," referring to the 1975 congressional hearings overseen by Sen. Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat. The Church Committee exposed, among other things, the FBI's illegal campaign of surveillance and harassment against political and civil-rights leaders, and the CIA's Project MKUltra, in which Americans were unwittingly experimented on with LSD. Not too long ago it was almost exclusively the radical left that made the sorts of criticisms of the FBI and CIA made by Patel, and that remembered the abuses uncovered by the Church Committee.
We should go ahead and make this a 45 post thread, though, just out of our humble respect for Jeffy.
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