Ex-FBI Agent Tells CNN Kash Patel Will Do ‘Massive Damage’ As Director: ‘Extremely, Extremely Dangerous’

Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner claimed that if Kash Patel took over the FBI he would do “massive damage” to the “interior” of the agency.

Recently, reports have surfaced that President-elect Donald Trump is considering firing current FBI Director Christopher Wray and replacing him with Patel after entering office.

Patel has vowed to target government employees and media pundits who supported the claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump. During the Trump administration, Patel served as a senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense.

During a Sunday interview with CNN anchor Jessica Dean, Brunner claimed that Patel lacks the experience to command the agency and would instead use it to target Trump’s political opponents.

It’s really important to understand that the person who is leading the FBI, who is the director and then the deputy director, those are two very important positions. You’re in charge of tens of thousands of employees, both special agents, analysts, everyone that is enforcing the law, federal law that is on the books and supporting the Constitution of the United States. Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous because you just alluded to that his resume isn’t traditional. There is nothing on his resume other than three years as a line U.S. attorney at the DOJ. He has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack, to put him in front of the lead law enforcement agency in the United States and some consider the world to have him in charge of so many employees.

And he has clearly stated that he wants to exact revenge upon those that have investigated President Trump and those investigated those that are around him. He will conduct a massive amount of damage to the interior of the FBI looking after and employees who have put their names on certain documents because they were just working the case. There will be hundreds of employees who will be unjustly fired or had their security clearances removed only because he feels that it’s something he needs to do. So I think he’ll be very, very dangerous.

Watch the clip above via CNN.