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How Does Kash Patel Compare to J. Edgar Hoover?

2025/3/5
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Kash Patel: 我计划彻底改革FBI，使其成为打击犯罪和追究媒体及政敌责任的机构。我将关闭FBI胡佛大楼，并将7000名员工部署到全国各地，让他们像警察一样追捕罪犯。我们将追究那些对美国公民撒谎、帮助乔·拜登操纵总统选举的媒体人士的责任。我们将采取刑事或民事手段，但我们会采取行动。 专家和民主党人: Kash Patel的言论和计划令人担忧，这预示着FBI可能重蹈J. Edgar Hoover时代的覆辙，那时FBI被严重政治化，滥用权力，对异见者进行非法窃听和栽赃陷害。他的计划可能会导致严重的权力滥用，这将是自J. Edgar Hoover时代以来我们从未见过的。 Beverly Gage: Kash Patel与J. Edgar Hoover的相似之处在于他们都试图利用FBI的权力来达到政治目的。然而，与Hoover不同的是，Patel的目标似乎是更彻底地将FBI政治化，甚至可能采取Hoover都无法接受的方式。Hoover虽然滥用权力，但有时也会出于自身利益而拒绝总统的政治要求。而Patel似乎没有这样的顾虑，他公开表示要利用FBI打击特朗普的敌人和批评者。Patel的计划可能导致更广泛的权力滥用，因为针对性监视等秘密手段比传统的刑事调查更容易实施，也更难受到监督。Hoover长期执掌FBI，并通过掌握政客的秘密信息来控制他们，维持自己的权力。Patel和Bongino则表现出对特朗普的绝对忠诚，这使得他们更有可能利用FBI来实现特朗普的政治目标，而不会受到任何约束。

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Explore the contrasting visions of Kash Patel and J. Edgar Hoover for the FBI, including Patel's plans to dismantle the agency and Hoover's historical influence.
  • Kash Patel aims to decentralize the FBI, moving its employees across America.
  • Patel's plans involve targeting media and political opponents.
  • Beverly Gage suggests Patel may politicize the FBI beyond Hoover's methods.

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Since Kash Patel was announced as the director for the FBI, pundits have warned of a return to the era of J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the bureau for 48 years. But according to Beverly Gage, the author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,) under Patel, the FBI could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected. This week, Micah and Beverly discuss how Hoover established a playbook for weaponizing the FBI, and how Patel might go even further.

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