'Why Is He Still Being Paid by Us?’: Kash Patel Tries to Sound Smart, But Accidentally Exposes How Incompetent He Is and Walks Straight Into the Backlash He Didn’t See Coming

'Why Is He Still Being Paid by Us?’: Kash Patel Tries to Sound Smart, But Accidentally Exposes How Incompetent He Is and Walks Straight Into the Backlash He Didn’t See Coming

Earlier this week, FBI Director Kash Patel tried to cast the criminal indictment of James Comey as proof that the bureau moves with careful precision, but the detail that caught critics off guard was his own timeline for the investigation. In walking through the case, Patel stressed that agents spent “nine, 10,11 months” examining an ambiguous image of seashells arranged to read “8647.” Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secreta…