This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
It seemed to take only seconds. And it probably was no more than minutes. But when the Senate on Thursday approved Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the FBI, one recurring message appeared on social media:
"Deep State is COOKED!"
Or another way, "Deep State's days are over."
Democrats long have expressed vigorous opposition to Patel's nomination to the point it bordered on what appeared to be fear.
After all, Patel already is on record criticizing the bureau. And he was a key investigator that uncovered the false claims of the Democrats' "Russiagate" scandal that involved the FBI during Trump's first term.
Ranking Member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., claimed Patel's confirmation would be "inviting a political disaster," and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., issued a kind of threat, telling his GOP colleagues, "Mark my words, this Patel guy will come back to haunt you."
Durbin had claimed he had been told that Patel already was directing a "purge of career civil servants" at the FBI.
Patel's spokeswoman pointed out that was sourced by the media with "anonymous" informers and "second-hand gossip."
Durbin also had argued, unsuccessfully, that Patel didn't' have "the temperament" for the position.
But Patel also declined to explicitly promise he would not investigate possible criminal activity among former officials who have been critical of Trump.
This after Democrats spent much of Trump's first term, and the four years he was out of office, creating a long list of lawfare cases against Trump, which now have fallen by the wayside.
Some of them obviously were pushed by politics, such as the armed FBI raid on Trump's home in a dispute over presidential records over which his team already was negotiating. Coincidentally, Joe Biden also was found to have government records in his possession, but prosecutors gave him a pass.
Patel did confirm he's dedicated to restoring the public's trust in an agency that harbored anti-Trump activists who claimed they had an insurance policy to prevent Trump from becoming president in 2017.
Patel, a lawyer, worked briefly served in the Justice Department during the Obama administration, then worked in the U.S. House. He was senior counsel to former Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in the House Intelligence Committee in 2017 and 2018.
He is credited with work debunking the FBI's Russia investigation and writing a memo that explained missteps at the bureau.
He later held positions in Trump's first administration.
