Kash Patel's bold FBI recruitment boost bewilders even MAGA

    
        Kash Patel's bold FBI recruitment boost bewilders even MAGA
    
Nick Anderson. Raw Story

        September 17, 2026 5:07PM ET
    
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Kash Patel had the most bizarre Capitol Hill grilling this week — and it left even MAGA bewildered.
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

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