Former Head of FBI & CIA Tells Senators Trump Nominees Kash Patel & Tulsi Gabbard are Unqualified.
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
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Summary
As Politico reported: "Former FBI and CIA Head Prods Senate to Reject Patel, Gabbard."
William Webster is the only person ever to serve as both head of the FBI and head of the CIA. But even beyond that, Mr. Webster has a deep well of experience with the FBI in particular, given his other positions as United States Attorney, federal trial court judge and federal court of appeals judge. Mr. Webster has sent a letter the United States Senate urging them to refuse to confirm Patel and Gabbard, saying, "I urge you to weigh the critical importance of nonpartisan leadership and experience . . .The safety of the American people - and your own families - depends on it."
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. |
| 0:11.5 | A former head of the FBI and the CIA is speaking out against Donald Trump's cabinet picks, Cash Patel |
| 0:22.2 | and Tulsi Gabbard. Glenn talks about that next on Justice Matters. These are difficult times, |
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| 1:03.3 | Hey all, Glenn Kirshner here. |
| 1:06.2 | So friends, William Webster is the only person who served as both director of the FBI and director |
| 1:14.4 | of the CIA. |
| 1:17.0 | And as extraordinary as that is, that really only scratches the surface of Mr. Webster's qualifications |
| 1:25.9 | to weigh in on Trump nominees like Cash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard. |
| 1:32.6 | Let's start with the new reporting. This from Politico. Headline, former FBI and CIA head, |
| 1:42.1 | prods Senate to reject Patel Gabbard. |
| 1:47.0 | And that article begins. |
| 1:49.0 | A former head of the FBI and CIA is raising objections over whether Cash Patel and Tulsi |
| 1:56.0 | Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump's picks to be director of the FBI and national intelligence, |
| 2:03.6 | respectively, are qualified to serve in the cabinet. |
| 2:07.6 | In a letter to Senators on Thursday, William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, |
| 2:16.6 | wrote that neither nominee meets the demands of top intelligence |
| 2:22.3 | jobs. Webster, who is 100 years old, praised Patel's patriotism, but wrote that his, Patel's |
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