Kash Patel’s Acts of Service
卡什·帕特尔(Kash Patel)的“效力之举”
The F.B.I. director isn’t just enforcing the President’s agenda at the Bureau—he’s seeking retribution for its past investigations of Donald Trump.
这位 FBI 局长不只是在局里执行总统议程——他还在为局里过去对唐纳德·特朗普的调查寻求报复。
The New Yorker
《纽约客》
By Marc Fisher
作者：马克·费舍尔(Marc Fisher)
Bennett Gershman, a professor at Pace University’s law school, where Patel got his degree, described Patel as an “at best average” student who was interested in issues of social justice and identity politics. “He seemed to be on the side of the left,” Gershman said. Former colleagues in Miami, where Patel spent eight years as a public defender, called him an “adequate” attorney. “We had two hundred lawyers, and he was neither one of the best nor one of the worst,” Bennett Brummer, the elected Miami-Dade public defender at the time, said. Kushagra Katariya, a cardiothoracic surgeon who became friends with Patel in Miami, said Patel’s passions were hockey and exploring ways to get rich. “I never imagined him getting to this point in his life,” Katariya said...
帕特尔在佩斯大学法学院获得学位，该校教授贝内特·格什曼(Bennett Gershman)形容他是“至多中规中矩”的学生，对社会正义和身份政治议题感兴趣。“他当时似乎站在左翼一边，”格什曼说。帕特尔曾在迈阿密做了八年公设辩护人，前同事称他是“够用”的律师。“我们有 200 名律师，他既不是最好的也不是最差的，”时任迈阿密-戴德民选公设辩护人贝内特·布鲁默(Bennett Brummer)说。在迈阿密与帕特尔成为朋友的心胸外科医生库沙格拉·卡塔里亚(Kushagra Katariya)说，帕特尔的热情是冰球和琢磨发财之道。“我从没想过他会走到人生这一步，”卡塔里亚说……
Patel had told the F.B.I. Agents Association, a nonprofit advocacy group, that he would name a member of the Bureau as his deputy director. Instead, he selected Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent who had gained prominence as a pro-Trump podcaster and a Fox News commentator. According to Senator Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat, who obtained F.B.I. personnel data earlier this year, almost a quarter of the F.B.I.’s more than thirteen thousand agents have been assigned to work on the apprehension of undocumented immigrants, which has not historically been a major focus for the Bureau. Hundreds more have been sent to support local police in cities that Trump has targeted, including Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Portland, Oregon, despite the fact that violent crime in these cities was already on the decline. “It’s a universe of fear now,” a current agent knowledgeable about staff assignments said. “A foreign counterintelligence agent was pulled off a case involving China to walk around D.C., making D.W.I. arrests.”...
帕特尔曾对非营利倡导组织 FBI 探员协会说，他会任命一名局内成员担任副局长。结果他选了丹·邦吉诺(Dan Bongino)——一名靠亲特朗普播客和福克斯评论员身份走红的特勤局前探员。据今年早些时候拿到 FBI 人事数据的弗州民主党参议员马克·华纳(Mark Warner)，FBI 一万三千多名探员中近四分之一被派去追捕无证移民——这历来不是局里的工作重点。还有数百人被派往特朗普 targeted 的城市支援地方警力，包括华盛顿特区、芝加哥和俄勒冈州波特兰——尽管这些城市的暴力犯罪本就在下降。“现在是一个恐惧的宇宙，”一位了解人事安排的在任探员说。“一名对华反谍探员被从涉华案件中抽走，去华盛顿街头巡逻、抓酒驾。”……
Kupperman and Bolton had concluded that one of Patel’s primary motives was to find a place in Trump’s orbit. “He had no real politics of his own,” Kupperman said. “He’s always cultivated people that can help him get into the limelight, and Trump has supported him at every turn because he’s one-hundred-per-cent sycophant.” Bolton and Kupperman were alarmed by what Bolton called Patel’s “résumé puffery,” including exaggerating his role at Justice in the Benghazi case. They also concluded that Patel couldn’t be trusted with secret information. On Nunes’s staff, he was seen as a serial leaker. “We would give information to the committee,” a senior official during Trump’s first term said, “and it would be on Fox News in twenty minutes.”...
库珀曼(Kupperman)和博尔顿(Bolton)断定，帕特尔的主要动机之一是挤进特朗普的圈子。“他没有自己真正的政治，”库珀曼说。“他一直在经营能帮他进入聚光灯的人脉，而特朗普处处挺他，因为他是百分之百的马屁精。”博尔顿和库珀曼被博尔顿所谓帕特尔的“简历注水”惊到——包括夸大他在司法部班加西案中的角色。他们还断定帕特尔不可托付机密信息。在努内斯(Nunes)手下，他被视为惯常泄密者。“我们把信息交给委员会，”特朗普第一任期一名高级官员说，“二十分钟后它就上福克斯了。”……
Patel “proved less interested in his assigned duties than in worming his way into Mr. Trump’s presence, which evidenced he was duplicitous, manipulative, and conspiratorial,” Bolton later said. Bolton and Kupperman were eventually included on Patel’s “government gangsters” list.
帕特尔“对自己分内的职责，不如钻营接近特朗普本人有兴趣，这证明他虚伪、操纵、阴谋成性，”博尔顿后来说。博尔顿和库珀曼最终上了帕特尔的“政府匪帮”名单。
Resistance to hiring Patel was not limited to the N.S.C. According to Kupperman and Bolton, in December, 2020, when Trump was considering Patel for the role of deputy director at the C.I.A., Gina Haspel, the agency’s director, threatened to resign in protest. Trump backed down. (Haspel declined a request for an interview.) A few months earlier, Attorney General William Barr had “categorically opposed” Trump’s proposal to make Patel the deputy director of the F.B.I. Barr wrote in his memoir that he told the White House chief of staff that “it would happen ‘over my dead body’ ” because Patel had “virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.” He added that “the very idea . . . showed a shocking detachment from reality.”..
反对聘用帕特尔的不止国家安全委员会。据库珀曼和博尔顿，2020 年 12 月，当特朗普考虑让帕特尔当中情局副局长时，局长吉娜·哈斯佩尔(Gina Haspel)以辞职抗议相胁。特朗普退让。（哈斯佩尔拒绝了采访请求。）几个月前，司法部长威廉·巴尔(William Barr)曾“断然反对”特朗普让帕特尔出任 FBI 副局长的提议。巴尔在回忆录里写道，他告诉白宫幕僚长，这事“除非踩过我的尸体”，因为帕特尔“几乎没有资格在世界最顶尖执法机构最高层级任职的任何经验”。他还说，“这个想法本身就显示出对现实的惊人脱节”……
Earlier this year, the public-interest lobby Public Citizen filed a complaint alleging that Patel, by failing to disclose his work for Qatar or to register as a foreign agent, had violated federal rules requiring officials to report income from overseas entities. The day after the complaint was filed, Attorney General Bondi limited enforcement of the rules governing such income, saying that criminal charges would be considered only in cases involving “traditional espionage.” Craig Holman, one of Public Citizen’s lobbyists, told me, “They rigged the whole system to make sure we never knew what Kash Patel was doing for Qatar.”...
今年早些时候，公益游说组织 Public Citizen 提交申诉，指称帕特尔未披露其为卡塔尔的工作、未登记为外国代理人，违反了要求官员申报海外实体收入的联邦规定。申诉提交次日，司法部长邦迪(Bondi)收紧了此类收入的执法口径，称只有涉及“传统间谍活动”的案件才考虑刑事指控。Public Citizen 的游说者之一克雷格·霍尔曼(Craig Holman)告诉我：“他们把整个系统操纵了，确保我们永远不会知道卡什·帕特尔在为卡塔尔干什么。”……
Patel decided to fly out to Utah. At a news conference the next day, he bade farewell to Kirk, saying, “Rest now, brother. We have the watch. I’ll see you in Valhalla.” The benediction did not go over well at the F.B.I. “Valhalla is where warriors go to die,” the former senior Bureau official said. “Now he’s a Viking warrior? He was a lawyer at the Justice Department. He’s just not a serious guy.”
帕特尔决定飞往犹他州。次日新闻会上，他向柯克告别：“安息吧，兄弟。我们守着哨。瓦尔哈拉见。”这句祝词在 FBI 内部反响不佳。“瓦尔哈拉是武士赴死的地方，”前局里高级官员说。“现在他成了维京武士？他是司法部的律师。他根本不是个正经人。”
That morning, Patel had convened a video call with about two hundred F.B.I. officials, in which he berated his staff for what he called “Mickey Mouse operations.” He told the assembled leaders that it was unacceptable that agents in Salt Lake City—the field office closest to the site of the shooting—had waited nearly twelve hours to show him a picture of the suspect. A few weeks earlier, Patel had forced out the agent in charge of the Salt Lake office, Mehtab Syed, a well-regarded former counterterrorism agent. The alleged shooter, a twenty-two-year-old named Tyler Robinson, turned himself in to authorities, ending a thirty-three-hour manhunt. At the press conference announcing Robinson’s arrest, Patel said, “This is what happens when you let good cops be cops.”...
那天早上，帕特尔召集了约 200 名 FBI 官员视频会议，痛斥手下干的是他所谓的“米老鼠行动”。他告诉在场领导者：盐湖城——离枪击地点最近的分局——的探员们花了近 12 个小时才给他看嫌疑人照片，这不可接受。几周前，帕特尔刚逼走了盐湖城分局负责人梅赫塔布·赛义德(Mehtab Syed)——一位口碑很好的前反恐探员。据称的枪手、22 岁的泰勒·罗宾逊(Tyler Robinson)向当局自首，结束了 33 小时的追捕。在宣布罗宾逊被捕的新闻会上，帕特尔说：“这就是让好警察当好警察的结果。”……
Elsewhere on social media, Patel’s support seemed fragile. Nearly a year into the President’s second term, users on X, Facebook, and Truth Social have been diligently cataloguing the anti-MAGA forces that have yet to be brought to justice. One meme tallied the “Number of Arrests” stemming from crimes Patel had promised to solve, including the “Russian Collusion Hoax”; the 2020 election; January 6th; the COVID-19 lab leak; the “Mar-a-Lago Raid”; and “Epstein Pedophile Arrests.” The final count on each, at least so far, is zero.
在社交媒体其他角落，帕特尔的支持显得脆弱。总统第二任期近一年，X、Facebook 和 Truth Social 上的用户一直在勤恳清点尚未被“绳之以法”的反 MAGA 势力。有梗图统计了帕特尔承诺查办罪案的“逮捕数”，包括“通俄门骗局”、2020 年选举、1 月 6 日、新冠实验室泄漏、“海湖庄园突袭”和“爱泼斯坦恋童癖逮捕”。每项的最终数字，至少目前，是零。
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/kash-patels-acts-of-service