Former FBI, CIA Head Flags 'Serious Concerns' With Trump Cabinet Picks
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William Webster, the only person to serve as director of both agencies, urged lawmakers to weigh the "critical importance of nonpartisan leadership and experience."
A former director of the FBI and CIA is questioning whether Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard — Donald Trump’s picks to be director of the FBI and national intelligence, respectively — are qualified for the posts.
William Webster — the only person to head both the FBI and the CIA who served under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — urged senators on Thursday to “weigh the critical importance of nonpartisan leadership and experience” as they evaluate the controversial choices.
“The safety of the American people - and your own families - depends on it,” wrote Webster, who is 100 years old, in a letter addressing the president-elect’s picks.
Webster joined a number of both current and former FBI officials who have expressed their concerns with Patel, a “deep state” conspiracy theorist and fierce Trump loyalist who served as chief of staff to acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Patel has expressed interest in closing the FBI’s D.C. headquarters to replace it with a “deep state” museum and has vowed to prosecute Trump’s enemies, a pledge that has led some Republicans to question whether he will actually “come after” Trump’s foes.
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