Kash Patel

I was like, we don't have a choice.

You took this job because you're supposed to defend everybody.

So the irony for me started there, but it wouldn't piece together until years later.

And so meeting out that singular system of justice for everyone became a big part of my job.

And then when I went forward through my career and when I got to DC and main justice and JSOC and all that, I would start seeing.

People in government, like places like the FBI and senior leader positions and DOJ, making prosecutorial decisions based on a political election.

My first big instance of that was Benghazi.

I was the main justice lead prosecutor for Benghazi for a while.

No kidding.

I remember this meeting with then-A.G.

Holder, and we had a deck of like 19 guys we wanted to prosecute.

JSOC had them rolled up, and we wanted to get them all.

They killed four Americans.

It's a legit terrorist attack.

And the basic general response from the FBI and DOJ leadership was, well, it's only politically convenient to get one guy.

And they went and got basically the wrong guy.

And then we prosecuted that wrong guy.

Not that he wasn't a part of it.

He just wasn't like...

the top tier of guys I would have gone after.