How Kash Patel Is Changing The FBI’s Mission
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I'm Terry Gross. Today we're going to talk about FBI Director Cash Patel with Mark Fisher, who profiles Patel on the current issue of The New Yorker. It's titled Cash Patel's Acts of Service. It's subtitled, The FBI Director isn't just enforcing the President's agenda at the Bureau, he's seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump. Fisher also writes about other controversies surrounding Patel, ranging from whether he's even qualified for the job to his conflicts of interest and how he's transforming the FBI's mission as he focuses on cracking down on undocumented immigrants.
Journalist Mark Fisher was a longtime writer and editor at the Washington Post and co author of the book. Trump revealed, before becoming a New Yorker contributor, we recorded our interview yesterday morning before both the House and the Senate approved the release of the Epstein files. Let's start with an excerpt of what Patel had to say about the Epstein files when he testified before the House Judiciary Committee last September. Here he is being questioned by California Democrat Eric Swalwell. You said you don't know the number of times Trump's name appears in the files, so it could at least be a thousand times.
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