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President Trump has announced his appointment of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI. That means incumbent director Chris Wray will have to resign or be fired. Which will it be? We shall see. The important point is that the president has the unencumbered power to remove the director even though Wray is serving an unexpired ten-year term. See Robert Chesney, “Backgrounder: The Power to Appoint & Remove the FBI Director” (2017).

If you think the FBI needs to be shaken up from the top down, Kash may be the man to do it. He possesses professional qualifications of the traditional kind. Beyond those, however, Patel worked as the senior aide to then House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and played a key role in helping to unravel the Russia hoax. The FBI itself was of course one of the perpetrators of the hoax.

Nunes would have been a good pick for the FBI job. Patel served him admirably under incredible pressure with all the usual forces arrayed against them. The two of them deserve a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Patel might be a great director. Earlier this month he opined, “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals.” Let’s get it on.