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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, ran a detailed compilation of perceived “deep state” adversaries in his 60-name roster, which ranges from President Joe Biden to network analysts, published in his 2022 book Government Gangsters.
In the book’s appendix, provocatively titled “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State,” Patel lists the names in alphabetical order but acknowledges that the list is not exhaustive.
According to Patel, other “corrupt actors” who aren’t names but who could include Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), ex-congressman Paul Ryan, author of the Trump-Russia Steele Dossier Christopher Steele, and work for the firm that published it, Fusion GPS. He also notes that “the entire fake news mafia press corp” would be included.
Since his nomination, Patel’s intentions have been scrutinized, with a focus on one appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, in which he promised to “go out and find the conspirators.”
His list covers figures from both sides of the political aisle. Read
- Michael Atkinson – Former inspector general of the intelligence community
- Lloyd Austin – Secretary of Defense under President Joe Biden
- Brian Auten – Supervisory intelligence analyst, FBI
- James Baker – Former general counsel for the FBI and Twitter executive
- Bill Barr – Former attorney general under Trump
- John Bolton – Former national security adviser under Trump
- Stephen Boyd – Former chief of legislative affairs, FBI
- Joe Biden – President of the United States
- John Brennan – Former CIA director under President Obama
- John Carlin – Former DOJ national security division head under Trump
- Eric Ciaramella – Former National Security Council staffer
- Pat Cipollone – Former White House counsel under Trump
- James Clapper – Former director of national intelligence under Obama
- Hillary Clinton – Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate
- James Comey – Former FBI director
- Elizabeth Dibble – Former deputy chief of mission, U.S. embassy, London
- Mark Esper – Former Secretary of Defense under Trump
- Alyssa Farah – Former strategic communications director under Trump
- Evelyn Farkas – Former Pentagon official under Obama
- Sarah Isgur Flores – Former DOJ communications head under Trump
- Merrick Garland – Attorney General under Biden
- Stephanie Grisham – Former White House press secretary under Trump
- Kamala Harris – Vice President and former presidential candidate
- Gina Haspel – Former CIA director under Trump
- Fiona Hill – Former National Security Council staffer
- Curtis Heide – FBI agent
- Eric Holder – Former attorney general under Obama
- Robert Hur – Special counsel for Bidendocument investigation
- Cassidy Hutchinson – Former assistant to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
- Nina Jankowicz – Former head of Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board
- Lois Lerner – Former IRS official under Obama
- Loretta Lynch – Former attorney general under Obama
- Charles Kupperman – Former deputy national security adviser under Trump
- Gen. Kenneth McKenzie (Ret.) – Former CENTCOM commander
- Andrew McCabe – Former FBI deputy director
- Ryan McCarthy – Former Secretary of the Army under Trump
- Mary McCord – Former DOJ national security division head
- Denis McDonough – Former Obama chief of staff, current VA secretary
- Gen. Mark Milley (Ret.) – Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Lisa Monaco – Deputy attorney general under Biden
- Robert Mueller – Former FBI director and Russiagate special counsel
- Bruce Ohr – Former DOJ official under Obama and Trump
- Nellie Ohr – Former CIA employee
- Lisa Page – Former FBI counsel
- Pat Philbin – Former deputy White House counsel under Trump
- John Podesta – Former Obama adviser, current Biden climate adviser
- Samantha Power – Former U.N. ambassador under Obama, current USAID administrator
- Bill Priestap – Former FBI counterintelligence chief
- Susan Rice – Former Obama national security adviser
- Rod Rosenstein – Former deputy attorney general under Trump
- Peter Strzok – Former FBI counterintelligence agent
- Jake Sullivan – National Security Adviser under Biden
- Michael Sussman – Former DNC lawyer
- Miles Taylor – Former DHS official under Trump
- Timothy Thibault – Former FBI agent
- Andrew Weissman – Mueller’s Russiagate deputy
- Alexander Vindman –Former National Security Council official
- Christopher Wray – Current FBI director under Trump and Biden
- Sally Yates – Former deputy attorney general under Obama
- Adam Schiff – Senator-elect and former House Intelligence Committee chairman