So much for an impartial FBI

The recent AP article entitled, “Biden’s broken promise on pardoning his son …” ends with the comment, “Neither Biden nor his White House staff explained the shift in the president’s thinking.” Yet seemingly overlooked was the fact that the pardon was issued directly following president-elect Trump’s choice of Kash Patel as his appointee to direct the FBI. Patel, long a loyalist to Mr. Trump, has promised that, “if Trump won the White House … he would go after Hunter and Joe Biden with a new criminal investigation.” (CNN)

Patel has dismissed the earlier two-year probe of Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine (resulting in no evidence of wrongdoing) during Mr. Trump’s first presidency, claiming “James Comer is weak and his work incomplete … and that Hunter Biden is guilty … that’s where the focus will be when we (Trump’s staff) get in” (Meidas+).

This seems to support Mr. Patel’s apparent obsession with criminalizing the Biden family and Hunter in particular and using the power of the FBI to seek prosecution and conviction.

“Although the FBI’s limited 10-year tenure (enacted post-Watergate, after J. Edgar Hoover’s death and his 48 years as head of that organization) is long in order to insulate the director from political pressure…” (U.S. gov website)

Mr. Patel is a deep loyalist to Mr. Trump, earning hundreds and thousands of dollars consulting for Trump-related entities; dismissed from a Colorado court in 2020 as a “not credible witness” claiming President Trump had authorized up to 10,000-20,000 troops “to deploy before the January 6th attack on the capitol only to have his assertion debunked by his boss, then-acting Secretary of Defense who stated that no such order was ever given. (Colorado Sun).

Mr. Patel will be vetted by the Senate, may they prove themselves stewards of the independence of the FBI.

Sincerely,

Christine Wardenburg-Skinner

Edison