Kash Patel is now facing DOJ investigation for possible improper disclosure of classified info

[Nevilledog]

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Kash Patel is now facing Justice Department investigation for possible improper disclosure of classified information, @IgnatiusPost reports.

Opinion | How Kash Patel rose from obscure Hill staffer to key operative in Trump’s battle with the...
While other Trump staffers became near-household names, Kashyap P. “Kash” Patel flew largely beneath the radar during the Trump administration.
washingtonpost.com
12:17 PM · Apr 16, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/16/kash-patel-trump-intelligence-community/

In the Trump administration’s four-year battle with the intelligence community, a recurring character was a brash lawyer named Kashyap P. “Kash” Patel. He appeared so frequently, in so many incarnations, that he was almost a “Zelig” figure in President Donald Trump’s confrontation against what he imagined as the “deep state.”

Patel repeatedly pressed intelligence agencies to release secrets that, in his view, showed that the president was being persecuted unfairly by critics. Ironically, he is now facing Justice Department investigation for possible improper disclosure of classified information, according to two knowledgeable sources who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe. The sources said the investigation resulted from a complaint made this year by an intelligence agency, but wouldn’t provide additional details.

Patel didn’t respond to text, email and voice mail messages, or a request to talk at his residence. A lawyer described as representing him also did not respond.

While other Trump staffers, most prominently adviser Stephen Miller, became near-household names, Patel, now 41, flew largely beneath the radar during the Trump administration. In the span of four years, he rose from an obscure Hill staffer to become one of the most powerful players in the national security apparatus. The saga of his battles with the intelligence bureaucracy shows how the last administration empowered its lieutenants to challenge what it saw as the deep state.

At the start of the Trump administration, Patel was senior counsel for Rep. Devin Nunes when the California Republican chaired the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 and 2018 and emerged as a leading critic of the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russia. Patel then joined Trump’s National Security Council staff as senior director for counterterrorism. In 2020, he was a senior adviser to acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell and his successor, John Ratcliffe, helping lead their efforts to remove senior career intelligence officers.

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[Bev54]

1. I hope to hell they are investigating Nunes as well. n/t

[crickets]

6. Given Patel was one of his staffers at a key time, they absolutely should be. nt

[monkeyman1]

2. trump investigation's & we'r off !!!!!!! the games are heating up for ol'donny boy.

[Trueblue1968]

3. LOCK HIM UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crickets]

4. Kash Patel is not an obscure man.

Who was a big contributor to the Nunes memo? Kash Patel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memo
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-men-behind-the-nunes-memo/551825/

Nunes has been conducting a parallel investigation into the FBI and the Justice Department since March 2017, when he first began examining whether top officials improperly “unmasked” and then leaked the names of Trump associates who surfaced in intelligence reports during the transition period. Nunes did not write the three-and-a-half-page memo outlining the initial findings of that investigation—which is ongoing—by himself, however.

Two sources familiar with the matter told me that much of the heavy lifting was done by Kash Patel, a top Nunes staffer and senior committee counsel. Patel previously attracted media attention by traveling to London late last summer—without the knowledge of the U.S. embassy or British government—along with committee staffer Doug Presley in search of Christopher Steele, author of a controversial dossier on Trump.

Who did an end run around Alexander Vindman for access to trump regarding Ukraine? Kash Patel

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/lt-col-vindman-says-author-of-the-nunes-memo-misrepresented-himself-as-ukraine-expert-to-trump/

According to two people familiar with the closed-door interview, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified that upon returning from the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelensky in May, he was scheduled to debrief President Trump on the promising start to the new Ukrainian president’s term. [snip]

However, “at the last second,” Vindman’s debriefing of Trump was cancelled, he reportedly told lawmakers Tuesday. According to accounts of the testimony, Vindman was told by NSC senior director for European and Russian affairs Dr. Fiona Hill that his positive outlook on U.S.-Ukraine relations might confuse the president because it would contradict what he had been told by Kashyap “Kash” Patel. Hill previously testified that Trump had been led to believe that Patel, not Vindman, was actually the NSC’s top Ukraine expert.

According to the report, Vindman also said that Patel had been intentionally bypassing NSC protocol in order convince Trump that the Ukrainian government was a hotbed of corruption, feeding him materials that reaffirmed his belief the country interfered in the 2016 election.

Patel, a former counterterrorism prosecutor in the Justice Department’s National Security Division and senior aide to Nunes, had joined the the National Security Council staff in February with no apparent experience in Ukraine or Ukrainian politics.

Anyone paying any attention just before and during the first impeachment has heard of this man. He's a menace, and has been for some time. Thanks for the article, Nevilledog. Apparently Patel was an even busier disruptor than previously realized - it's a relief to know he's finally being investigated.

[malaise]

8. Is he related to the Patels of grocery franchise fame

and infamy?

[crickets]

10. Not sure, but he does not seem to be. nt

[JI7]

5. Hope he ends up in prison

[BlueLucy]

7. He's a dangerous one.

I hope he gets a log prison sentence.

[Boomerproud]

9. The optimism that these dangerous people will be brought to justice

seems pretty deep. I'm old and have seen too much.

[LessAspin]

11. Nigerian Nightmare

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