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Kash Patel faces criticism for touting FBI’s work tracking down suspect prematurely (www.theguardian.com)

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Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, is once again facing criticism for rushing to social media to tout his agency’s work on tracking down a person of interest in a shooting prematurely.

After a shooter killed two and injured nine at Brown University on Saturday, Patel, a lawyer and rightwing commentator before his job in the administration, posted on X that his agency had helped detain a “person of interest in a hotel room” in Coventry, Rhode Island, acting off a lead from the Providence police.

But the person of interest was later released from custody hours later, and the shooter is still at large.

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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

His entire job is to get on TV right away to produce sound bites for the MAGAsphere. He’s not talking to you or me.

What he says doesn’t need to be true. As long as he says things Trump likes.

[–] thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep this is their playbook. It looks like the meta for the Information Age is to just overwhelm with random noise (information) even if it’s completely wrong or a lie. Which kind of checks out with their whole AI obsession since all these companies are banking on “AI doesn’t have to be right… it just has to seem right”

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well put.

It’s amazing to me that - almost to a person - these MAGA and their sympathizers all claim to think for themselves and look at “all the sources” but they don’t ever notice they’re in lockstep with each other.

I’m in freakin Canada…so anyone who supports MAGA here is a brain rotted traitor in the first place…but there’s tons of them. My neighbour…before the pandemic was a normal dude…no real political compass…just a rich guy who was pretty harmless ideologically, at the end of the day. After the pandemic he has this script: “I used to be liberal…but liberals went crazy, we can’t say anything anymore, so now I support Trump, don’t like vaccines, love Elon Musk, love Tucker Carlson”. My brother…1000km away - same script with variations: “I used to be liberal, but you can’t say anything anymore so I support Trump. I hate vaccines, I love Elon Musk and I love Adam Carolla.”