Summary
FBI Director Kash Patel, appointed by Donald Trump despite lacking law enforcement experience, has frustrated current and former FBI and DOJ officials with what they see as a lack of seriousness and professionalism.
Patel skipped or scaled back key briefings and ended routine field office meetings, citing leaks.
Critics cite a leadership void, public relations stunts, and excessive travel including multiple trips unrelated to work.
Patel also briefly led the ATF but was quietly replaced after being absent.
Russia hacked in multiple times, mapped things out and coordinated attacks in swing states. Defcon started doing a whole village for voting machines after the first time and very few municipalities fixed anything. There still hasn’t been a legitimate recount anywhere there should have been.
Oh I’m well aware. I’ve read dozens of articles over 2 decades about the horrors of American e-voting. Every election since their intro could have already been used for fraud at some level, all the way to federal.
The problem is that there isn’t some smoking gun to prove it, and there probably never will be. It’s better to focus on the anti-democratic flaws in the entire system, especially oligarch/corporate control over politics through bribery — sorry, “donations” — and all other forms of corruption. Those are already proven.
I think what we really need, short of direct action, is journalism. Journalists could find a smoking gun. There should be several. There should be physical ballots, records of destruction or missing ballots.