Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, is once again facing criticism for rushing to social media to tout his agency’s work on tracking down a person of interest in a shooting prematurely.
After a shooter killed two and injured nine at Brown University on Saturday, Patel, a lawyer and rightwing commentator before his job in the administration, posted on X that his agency had helped detain a “person of interest in a hotel room” in Coventry, Rhode Island, acting off a lead from the Providence police.
But the person of interest was later released from custody hours later, and the shooter is still at large.
He wants to be the guy from the movies so bad, but he doesn’t realize that guy has a whole script writing team. The fbi has a whole media relations team as well… all Patel has to do is sit on his ass until the media relations team hands him his script, and he’ll look and sound really cool, but he’s a fucking idiot.