FBI 'in shambles' as insiders say 'nobody will miss' Kash Patel staff if director is fired

FBI insiders have claimed director Kash Patel is overseeing a "shambles" and that "nobody will miss" his staff iif he is fired.

Rumours of Patel's imminent departure from his role at the top of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were reported by Salon, who spoke with FBI sources. The mood in the department is, according to one unnamed source, not positive for Patel. A 30-year veteran of the FBI says morale is at an "all-time low" and suggested the trouble is "at the top" of the FBI.

Deputy Director Dan Bongino has also been in the firing line of FBI insiders, with one claiming his office has been emptied for weeks. Staffers at the office say it has been empty for "close to two weeks" while another said nobody is feeling reminiscent about Bongino's time at the FBI.

An insider said, "Nobody here will miss him. He has no credibility." Others have noted Jimmy Paul, the chief of staff working under Bongino for the last nine months, had already left the agency for a posting at the Baltimore field office. Patel is also facing criticism from one insider who told Salon the FBI is "in shambles" because of how Patel is running things.

The White House has denied any plan to replace Patel as director of the FBI. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told the outlet, "President Trump has full confidence in his entire law enforcement and justice team."

Pressure on Patel comes as a former federal prosecutor says the FBI head is making the same mistakes constantly. Glenn Kirschner said, "It looks like FBI Director Kash Patel is either unwilling or unable to learn from his mistakes because in yet another high-profile shooting, old Kash just got it wrong again."

Patel's announcement of a person of interest in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, which left two students dead and nine more injured, was called "premature" by Kirschner. The former federal prosecutor went on to break down why this was such a problem for Patel.

He said, "Well, first of all, he made clear by inaccurately relaying that they've got the bad guy in custody ... that the FBI screwed up because they got the wrong guy holed up in that motel room. Two, he inaccurately signaled to the people that the coast is clear," he continued, adding, "that was wrong, and that's dangerous."

"Three, he's disclosing facts to the public that the public doesn't need to know. The public has no right to know."