Newsweek published 80 of the names Kash Patel, Trump’s nomination as the next FBI Director, published in his September 2023 book, Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy. Patel names these as people to be targeted in any effort to clean out the “Deep State.”
A sampling for your review:
• Michael Atkinson: former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
• Lloyd Austin: U.S. Secretary of Defense.
• Brian Auten: FBI official who supervised the Bureau’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
• James Baker: the former general counsel of the FBI and former deputy general counsel at Twitter.
• Bill Barr: attorney general under Trump.
• John Bolton: Trump’s one-time national security advisor.
• James Clapper: former Director of National Intelligence during the Obama administration.
• Hillary Clinton: former Secretary of State under Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.
• James Comey: former FBI Director whom Trump fired in 2017.
• Elizabeth Dibble: former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London.
• Mark Esper: Secretary of Defense under Trump.
• Evelyn Farkas: former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia during the Obama administration.
• Merrick Garland: U.S. Attorney General.
• Kamala Harris: Vice President of the United States and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
• Gina Haspel: former CIA director under Trump.
• Fiona Hill: former National Security Council official under Trump, specializing in Russia and Ukraine. Hill was one of the officials who testified at Trump’s first impeachment proceeding.
• Eric Holder: Attorney General during the Obama administration.
• Nina Jankowicz: former executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board during the Biden administration.
• Andrew McCabe: former deputy FBI director during Trump’s first term.
• Mark Milley: former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who called Trump “fascist” and said he was “the most dangerous person to this country.”
• Robert Mueller: former FBI director and special counsel who investigated links between the Trump campaign and Russia-linked individuals.
• Bruce Ohr: former Associate Deputy Attorney General, who was heavily criticized by Trump and his allies over his contact with the former British spy Christopher Steele, who wrote the so-called Steele dossier against Trump.
• Nellie Ohr: Bruce Ohr’s wife, a former CIA employee, who later worked as an independent contractor for Fusion GPS, the firm that commissioned the Steele dossier.
• Lisa Page: former FBI lawyer who criticized Trump in text messages with FBI official Peter Strzok.
• John Podesta: senior advisor to Biden, Bill Clinton’s former White House chief of staff, former counselor to Obama, and the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
• Samantha Power: administrator of the United States Agency for International Development under Biden and former Ambassador to the United Nations under Obama.
• Bill Priestap: former assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.
• Susan Rice: former National Security Advisor to Obama.
• Rod Rosenstein: former Deputy Attorney General who appointed Mueller to oversee the Trump-Russia investigation.
• Peter Strzok: former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, who criticized Trump in private texts with Lisa Page.
• Jake Sullivan: Biden’s National Security Advisor.
• Andrew Weissmann: former DOJ official and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who served as Mueller’s second-in-command during the Russia probe.
• Alexander Vindman: former Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council under Trump. Vindman testified against Trump during his first impeachment proceeding.
• Christopher Wray: Director of the FBI.
• Sally Yates: former acting Attorney General under Trump and former Deputy Attorney General under Obama. Trump fired Yates weeks into his first term, after she refused to enforce his executive order instating an immigration ban on individuals coming from some Muslim-majority countries.
