1. From NPR:
The Republican-led Senate voted Thursday to confirm Kash Patel as the new FBI director despite questions about whether he has the qualifications and the temperament to lead the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency.Patel, a close ally of President Trump and a fierce critic of the FBI, was confirmed by a 51-49 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joining all Democrats in opposing him.
It caps a remarkable rise for Patel, who has worked as a public defender, federal prosecutor and congressional aide before serving as a national security official in President Trump's first term. He later emerged as a fixture in MAGA world, a right-wing podcast regular and a Trump loyalist.
Republicans welcomed his confirmation. They argue that the FBI has unfairly targeted conservatives in recent years, and they see Patel as someone who will fix that purported problem.
"Kash is the right man to clean up the FBI to restore Americans' confidence and trust that the FBI is not a political organization, it is a law enforcement organization," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a post on X.
2. In other news, Jay Weaver covers Trump's new pick for U.S. Attorney in the SDFLA, Jason Reding Quinones. The intro:
On paper, President Donald Trump’s new nominee to head the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Florida seems to have solid credentials.
He formerly served as a federal prosecutor in the Miami office, was appointed as a Miami-Dade County judge a year ago by Gov. Ron DeSantis, and he’s a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
But there are a couple of things in the background of Jason A. Reding Quiñones that were not highlighted in Trump’s glowing post about him on his media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday, including a name change and that he received poor evaluations as a criminal prosecutor in the same office he has been nominated to head.
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". . . he received poor evaluations as a criminal prosecutor . . " And what is the reason for the poor evaluation? These media reports are hearsay and do not provide any detail. How many prosecutors have not gotten along with their supervisors? A lot. Unless the media can produce the evaluation or interview the lawyer who wrote it, this is a non-issue.
If his poor reviews came from the famously corrupt FLSD leadership, is it really a negative?
Bingo
Congratulations Kash Patel, godspeed and mazel tov!
It's funny. This post and a previous one claimed that Quinones and Patel were terrible prosecutors who had poor evaluations. I agree with everyone above. Unless there is something concrete, we have got to stop spreading rumors and disparaging people for no reason.
Hearsay and speculation are the Jay Weaver special. His article also says things like: "the civil division ... deals mostly with non-criminal prosecutions." News flash, that's an oxymoron, Jay. And no, Jay, the civil division deals ONLY with 'non-criminal prosecutions.' That's why it's called the civil division. Real deep reporting.
But spreading rumors and disparaging people for no reason is the new m.o. for approx. 1/3 of the country, 10:54!
Sad but true!
How about instead disparaging him for having an enemies list? And for not having the qualifications to lead a department as big and complex as the FBI? And for being a political hack?
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