Surreal novelist Joseph Heller once wrote, “Just because your paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, survived a bevy of encounters from Deep State folks who really were out to get him when he held a number of high-level government positions in Trump’s first administration. He documents those confrontations in his important book, “Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Democracy.”
In a bold and candid narrative Patel offers more than an insider’s perspective on the snake pit that is Washington, D.C. He has the receipts, the insights and provides possible solutions to draining a swamp teeming with corruption, graft and lawfare shenanigans.
The author admits he finds it hard to believe how a former public defender, federal prosecutor and congressional staffer found himself front and center in every major national security and political battle with the Deep State for seven years. “Government Gangsters” provides readers a first-person perspective on how the corrupt government bureaucracy operates; how it works tirelessly to cancel and ruin those who oppose them.
Is the Deep State still out for Patel’s scalp? He acknowledges that Government Gangsters” was difficult to publish because it is the book the Deep State doesn’t want Americans to read.
As a former government employee with a high security clearance Patel’s book had to go through an extensive prepublication review. The obstruction occurred when nine separate agencies and departments stymied his efforts for several months at going public with his experiences.
“They delayed publication for almost eight months (stretching out a process that normally takes three to four months) to edit minor parts of ten paragraphs. Only after I filed a federal lawsuit against the government did the Department of Defense (DoD) magically finish its work and ‘release’ my manuscript,” Patel wrote.
Rising Through the Ranks
Patel worked for a little over a decade as a public defender in Florida before he began his work in public service. In 2014 he was hired by the National Security Division of the DOJ as a terrorism prosecutor.
During President Trump’s first term Patel worked with former California congressman Devin Nunes on the House Permanent Select Committee as the lead investigator into the Russian collusion hoax. The subsequent “Nunes Memo” spotlighted how the FBI shamelessly used entrapment and extortion to further its sham investigation into charges that candidate Trump and later President Trump colluded with Russia to win the presidency.
His excellent work as a congressional staffer led to further prominent posts as a national security advisor, senior advisor to Rick Grenell, the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to Christopher Miller, the acting U.S. Secretary of Defense.
In each of those positions Patel battled the Deep State and ultimately won. His process was always the same: he gathered extensive paper trails and conducted interviews that helped expose multiple wrongdoing and abuses; exposed the perpetrators with incontrovertible evidence and fortified himself to weather the incoming personal attacks from those agencies, departments and individuals he was exposing.
Exposing the Deep State
The book consists of five parts and levels its investigative guns at the Department of Justice; the FBI; the National Security Council and the intelligence community; the Department of Defense and last but not least, January 6th, or as Chapter 17 is titled, “The Insurrection That Never Was.”
Patel’s prosecutorial chops are on full display in every chapter. He covers the full gamut of D.C. politics, detailing how the DOJ has created a two-tier system of justice; shares keen insights on the FBI and Russia Gate; outlines the corruption of the intelligence community; details how the Department of Defense has become increasingly politicized, and comments on how the FBI “crossed the Rubicon” with the unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago.
“Their big show was just another attempt to craft a political narrative to discredit Trump and prevent him and the America First movement he represents from having power ever again,” he writes.
One shocking example of D.C. corruption concerns a Department of Defense agency called the Office of Net Assessment. Purportedly it was established to prepare America for future threats and warfare. In reality the ONA has not produced a net assessment in 15 years. What it has done, though, is become a cash cow cutout for multiple federal agencies to fund research against political opponents.
One example he shares is how the ONA paid over a million dollars to a contractor for “research.” The recipient was Stefan Harper, the same guy who was being paid by the FBI to spy on Carter Page and George Papadopoulos as part of the Russia Gate scandal.
Shining the spotlight on the Deep State may cause those who’ve abused their power to scatter, but it doesn’t fix what’s wrong. That’s why Patel also provides specific recommendations on how to address the systemic issues affecting those agencies he has investigated. Two suggestions he offers are moving the FBI out of D.C. and civil service reform that would allow a president to fire executive branch bureaucrats who refuse to carry out their orders.
President Trump has publicly stated Patel’s book provides a blueprint for plans on reforming the Deep State, undoubtedly a significant reason why many in D.C. hate the thought of him as FBI director. A real eye opener is offered in one of three appendixes where Patel names members of the Deep State and the positions they hold or have held.
“Government Gangsters” provides concrete evidence that the Deep State exists. What President Trump and elected officials do about it the next few years will determine what kind of America we leave for our children and grandchildren.
By Kash Pramod Patel
Post Hill Press (August 1, 2024)
Paperback 288 pages
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