Kash Patel's FBI Confirmation Controversy

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What Trump's FBI director pick says he wants to do to reshape the bureau

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Kash Patel has been well-known for years within Donald Trump ’s orbit as a loyal supporter.

He shares the president-elect's skepticism of the FBI and intelligence community.

Patel has said he would shut down the J. Edgar Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.

Patel has advocated cutting the federal government’s intelligence community, including the CIA and National Security Agency .

If confirmed, he would take over the FBI amid continued debate over a particularly contentious provision of FISA known as Section 702 .

The provision allows the U.S. to collect without a warrant the communications of non-Americans located outside the country for the purpose of gathering foreign intelligence.

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