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Guess Who Gives Kash Patel His Orders? Hint: It’s Not Just Trump.

America’s FBI directors are expected to be fiercely independent. Kash Patel is not. Instead, Patel appears to be completely under the thumb of the White House, bending over backward to enact the president’s retribution campaign, according to a new report by The Atlantic . Whereas Patel’s predecessors have historically tried to create distance between…

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