Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
At the end of his first term in office, then-President Donald Trump sought to install Kash Patel, a hard-line MAGA loyalist, as deputy CIA director. But the head of the agency at the time, Gina Haspel, a career intelligence officer, threatened to resign in protest, and the appointment was scuttled. Now, four years later, Patel is considered a possible pick for CIA director or another high-level national security post in a second Trump administration.
After a four year investigation, Special Counsel John Durham issued a scathing 300-page report that said the FBI had acted negligently when it opened the investigation based on vague and insufficient information. Yet Durham found that no senior FBI or CIA officials had committed crimes. The two criminal prosecutions he brought, both regarding lying, ended in juries acquitting the defendants.
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