FBI insiders and former officials are watching in horror as current FBI Director Kash Patel has taken the front and center position heading up the investigation into the murder of far-right conservative Charlie Kirk.
That is according to MSNBC’s Ken Dilainian who stated that what has transpired since the shooting at a Utah college is being regarded as an “embarrassment,” with all signs pointing to the Donald Trump appointee.
Speaking with MSNBC host Anna Cabrera, Dilainian said Patel will long be remembered for his fumbling on social media –– and not in a good way.
At issue were tweets sent out by the director claiming that suspects had been taken into custody, only for the story to change within hours.
As the manhunt for the shooter continued, the MSNBC journalist explained, “Anna, the current and former FBI officials I've been talking to about this episode last night are frankly calling it an embarrassment and they're saying this should never happen.”
“To answer your question, the FBI does appear to have changed the way it's communicated in the sense that the FBI director is no longer freelance-tweeting” he elaborated. “He is essentially posting the official statements that appear to be carefully vetted.joint statements between the FBI and the Utah Department of Public Safety. and they're sort of carefully putting out exactly what they know and trying not to go beyond that.”
“But look,” he observed. “You know, Kash Patel inexplicably essentially said that they had the guy and then had to retract that and has not explained, nor has the FBI explained how that mistake happened. That was an embarrassment in the annals of the FBI, and it's not something that ever should happen.”
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