How fierce Trump ally Kash Patel could help reshape the FBI or Justice Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Patel said he has personally "recommended" to Trump that the new administration also strip any security clearances still held by the 51 then-former intelligence officials, including former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA director John Brennan, who in October 2020, just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, signed onto a letter dismissing the public release of emails from Hunter Biden's laptop as part of a "Russian information operation.
46% : "This is the roadmap to end the Deep State's reign," Trump said of the book on his Truth Social media platform.
45% : Trump also said he will "totally reform" the court system that in 2016 and 2017 approved the FBI's applications to intercept his former adviser's communications.
43% : In a campaign video released last year, Trump promised that if reelected, he will "immediately reissue" a 2020 executive order giving him the power "to remove rogue bureaucrats." "And I will wield that power very aggressively," he declared.
37% : Patel has long called for the public disclosure of documents still unreleased from the FBI's investigation of Trump and alleged ties to Russia.
36% : In the campaign video released last year, Trump promised to establish a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" that will "declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption.
35% : A special counsel investigation launched by the Justice Department under Trump's first term concluded that "senior FBI personnel" and federal prosecutors working the Russia-related probe had "displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor" toward politically-tainted information, failing to "adequately examine or question" that information before launching a full-scale investigation of Trump and his associates, which included intercepting the communications of one former Trump adviser.
32% : Democrats "should be very afraid," Patel wrote, as Trump and his allies battle "the Deep State" -- what conspiracy theorists claim is a cadre of career employees inside government who are working together to secretly manipulate policy and undermine elected leaders.
32% : And that's why Patel wants Trump to strip them of their clearances.
24% : After Trump's historic reelection last week, media speculation has suggested that Patel, a former Defense Department official, could be under consideration to become Trump's attorney general or CIA director -- or that he could even replace current FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump has reportedly vowed to fire.
20% : " Trump and his allies have accused the 51 former intelligence officials of trying to influence the 2020 election themselves.
14% : Now, as president again, Trump "can expose the documents that these folks have written for decades, allowing [their] corrupt activities," Patel said on Thursday.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.