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And it appears the purpose of this hack was, of course, to embarrass Kash Patel.

Now, to be honest, though, nothing released today was really anywhere near as embarrassing as what we already know about Kash Patel, what he has somehow put out himself in many ways.

I mean, just last week, ProPublica reported that Kash Patel had been signing autographed pictures of himself at the FBI Academy.

ProPublica also reported that Patel made these custom shoes.

See them on the screen?

Featuring the Kash sign, the number nine, Patel is the ninth director of the FBI, and the FBI motto.

So yeah, why not make some commemorative shoes about it, I guess?

As one does.

I mean, this is a guy who was caught guzzling beer and partying with the U.S.

Olympic hockey team during a trip his spokesperson claimed was an official FBI trip to Milan for security meetings.

Not what it appears to be as far as I can see.

And this is a guy who's reportedly demanded that rotating FBI SWAT teams, teams trained to arrest violent criminals and free hostages and fight terrorists,

Provide his much younger girlfriend with personal security while she performs as a singer and runs errands.

This is a guy who on more than one occasion ordered FBI security personnel to drive his girlfriend's allegedly drunk friends home after nights of partying.

Now, this hacking group does not appear to have released the entirety of what they obtained from Patel's personal email account.

And if they ultimately release something newsworthy, we'll report on it.

But for now, the content here, this is my point, isn't the story.

The hack itself is.

And that's not because the hack is surprising.

A lot of very high-level U.S.