An FBI dossier assessing the leadership of Kash Patel and his team has deemed them "in over their heads".
FBI Director Patel, along with deputy director Dan Bongino, appear to have had a negative effect on employee's with "an 80/20" skew to negativity through anecdotal reporting. The "pulse check" on the FBI's mood comes as the FBI dossier described Bongino as a "clown" and also detailed a tantrum from Patel, who refused to leave a plane until he was handed an FBI jacket.
Sources have described Patel as "in over his head" and lacking "the breadth of experience" necessary to be a successful FBI director, The Daily Beast reported.
Donald Trump has previously denied having any intent to fire Patel, but the dossier criticizing Patel and his team has painted a ridiculous picture inside of the FBI. The report was written by a group of active duty and retired agents and analysts, who collectively wrote Patel's leadership is "dismal".
The report further alleged the FBI had become a "rudderless ship" with him at the top, observing that Patel had not made "a positive impression". Both he and Bongino were told to "stop talking, stop posing, and just be professional."
Once incident recalled Patel refusing to exit a plane until he was given an FBI raid jacket. The report reads, "Patel apparently did not have his own FBI raid jacket with him and refused to step from the plane without wearing one."
Both men were accused of "spending too much time on social media and public relations" and for being "too often concerned with building their own personal résumés."
It was not just problems with Bongino and Patel as individuals, with the report noting there had been mission briefings that were "incomplete and confusing at best, chaotic at worst". It left some agents in what was described as "tactically unsafe positions."
Though Patel is yet to respond to the dossier, it appears Bongino referred to it in a post to X, saying that the dossier is a leak of "gossipy nonsense".
He wrote, "A LOT of people are very upset at the changes and reforms we've made at the FBI. They will do anything to revert to the old ways of doing things. So they leak gossipy nonsense to media outlets and 'journalists' with a clear agenda, and they ignore the historic results and the significant reforms we instituted."