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Kash Patel (NSC): About Me
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KASH PATEL

Senior Director of Counterterrorism
2019-2020

TESTIMONY: NUNES ACOLYTE MISREPRESENTED HIMSELF TO TRUMP AS UKRAINE EXPERT

Vindman also testified that he was told Patel had been circumventing normal NSC process to get negative material about Ukraine in front of the president, feeding Trump’s belief that Ukraine was brimming with corruption and had interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Democrats.

October 30, 2019

WHO IS KASH PATEL, INDIAN AMERICAN OFFICIAL CAUGHT IN THE UKRAINE SCANDAL?

Patel is seeking $25 million from Politico alleging defamation. Patel’s suit says that at no time before October 30, Kash had ever communicated on Ukraine with the President.

Interestingly, the publicly released transcripts of the testimony to the House Intelligence Committee-led impeachment Inquiry of former NSC Russia expert Fiona Hill and its current Ukraine expert Col. Alexander Vindman also refer to Patel’s role in the matter.

November 22, 2019

WHITE HOUSE STAFFER KASH PATEL DENIES HE WAS BACK CHANNEL TO TRUMP ON UKRAINE

According to the call records revealed in the report, Patel had a 25-minute phone conversation with Giuliani on May 10. Five minutes after their call, Giuliani spoke with an unidentified number for 17 minutes and then with associate Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American who has been accused of illegally funneling foreign money to U.S. political candidates and of aiding Giuliani in his Ukraine investigations. 

December 4, 2019

NSC AIDE WHO WORKED TO DISCREDIT RUSSIA PROBE MOVES TO SENIOR ODNI POST

February 20, 2020

He had previously worked as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)’s top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee and was the lead author of a report questioning the conduct of FBI and DOJ officials investigating Russia’s election interference. Republicans later used the report to bolster arguments that the probe was a plot to take down President Donald Trump.

OPINION: HOW KASH PATEL ROSE FROM OBSCURE HILL STAFFER TO KEY OPERATIVE IN TRUMP’S BATTLE WITH THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

Opinions about Patel differed among the dozen current and former senior officials who discussed his activities with me anonymously so that they could describe sensitive matters freely. One top Pentagon official saw Patel as a direct threat to lawful government and says he advised him of potential legal risks. But several others described him as an ambitious but clumsy bumbler. “Was this a Machiavellian master plan, or the Three Stooges?” asked one. Said another: “These guys were like kids in high school. They made snap decisions and spewed out directives without analysis to back them up.

April 16, 2021

Kash Patel (NSC): CV
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