Lawfare Archive: Ignatius and Goldsmith on the Story of Kash Patel
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🗓️ 8 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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From May 11, 2021: David Ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently ran a lengthy column about the machinations of Kash Patel in the executive branch during the presidential transition. Patel, a former staffer for Devin Nunes, held a variety of positions in the months before Donald Trump left office, and Donald Trump considered him for a variety of other positions. It's a remarkable story that raises a whole series of questions that Jack Goldsmith has been asking on Lawfare for some time. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Ignatius and Goldsmith to discuss the article. What was Patel up to in the final days of the Trump administration? What does it say about the way the executive branch functioned under Donald Trump? And what does it say about the activities of the deep state?
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| 1:31.1 | Last week, President-elect Donald Trump nominated former federal prosecutor, Cash Patel, to be FBI director to replace Christopher Ray. |
| 1:32.9 | But who is Cash Patel? |
| 1:45.5 | For today's archive episode, I selected an episode from May 11, 2021, The Lawfare Podcast, Ignatius and Goldsmith, on the story of Cash Patel, in which Benjamin Wittes sat down with David Ignatius, a columnist for The Washington Post, and Lawfare co-founder Jack Goldsmith, |
| 1:51.4 | to discuss Ignatius' recent profile on Patel and his machinations in the executive branch |
| 1:56.4 | during the presidential transition between Trump's first term and President Joe Biden's. |
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