Government Gangsters: Book Summary

6 1/2 years ago, Q said that Kash Patel was a name to remember. Now, Patel is FBI Director. I recommend buying this book, but if you don't have time to read it right now, what with all the breaking news, here's the Cleland's Notes version to get you up to speed.

Chapter 1: The psychology of lawyers.

Chapter 2: Eric Holder's DOJ ignored reams of evidence Kash had against dozens of Benghazi terrorists.

Chapter 3: The DOJ is biased in which leakers they prosecute, which investigations they announce, and where they prosecute the trials.

Chapter 4: Hillary Clinton > Perkins Coie > Fusion GPS > Steele Dossier > FISA warrant > Carter Page > Trump campaign > Russia hoax > Rachel Maddow > You.

Chapter 5: A cutout is an intermediary that facilitates the exchange of information between agents. Bruce Ohr was a cutout between Steele and the FBI.

Chapter 6: the Mueller probe, with virtually unlimited time and money, produced a laughable report with no mention of the facts that had been released in the Nunes memo.

Chapter 7: the same Washington-based FBI team, including Brian Auten and Timothy Thibault, was behind Russiagate, covering up the Hunter Biden laptop, the January 6 inquiry, the plan to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, and the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Kash suspects they conducted the raid in part to try to get declassified materials back under lock and key.

Chapter 8: Congress can obtain documents from DOJ and FBI by withholding their funding. Congress can move agents out of DC and into the field where they belong. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can be reformed by adding seasoned judges, public defenders to question warrants, and simply having court reporters!

Chapter 9: John Bolton threw up roadblocks to keep Trump from hiring Patel. After Russiagate failed, Ukrainegate was the basis for the first impeachment. But when Trump released the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president, that fell apart. So then they claimed Kash Patel himself was a back channel for secret deals with Ukraine! Fiona Hill and Alexander Vindman had to admit under oath that they had no evidence.

Chapter 10: working for the National Security Council, Patel traveled to Syria for hostage negotiations. He prepared for months and set up the Situation Room for the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of ISIS.

Chapter 11: there is supposed to be a chain of command leading directly to the president of the United States. Swamp creatures disobey orders indirectly by slow walking, hiding intelligence, leaking classified information, offering derogatory anonymous quotes, and presenting their bosses with limited options. CIA Director Gina Haspel and Defense Secretary Mark Esper pushed back when Kash tried to get their people to follow orders. On the upside, Kash was delighted to travel with Trump to India, with his parents in the front row and a crowd of 100,000+. And he got to speak with the Prime Minister in their mutual native dialect.

Chapter 12: Trump asked for documents to be declassified, but there were months of delays. One document showed the FBI set up General Flynn from the beginning. After leaving the White House, Kash established a nonprofit with a website to disseminate declassified documents.

Chapter 13: across government, the intelligence community is bloated, politicized, siloed, and obstructed. Agencies should not receive funding for unfilled jobs. Agencies need to communicate, not duplicate. Schedule F is needed so the president can fire bureaucrats. Former senior-level employees need to have their security clearances removed.

Chapter 14: the Department of Defense has its own Deep State which operates somewhat differently. There are the foreign policy "experts" who are warmongers, and there are military brass in a revolving door with defense contractors, making a ton of money off of things like Hillary's killing of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Patel actually sounds sympathetic to Obama, who campaigned on getting out of Afghanistan, but in eight years could not.

Chapter 15: as Chief of Staff to Chris Miller at the Department of Defense, Kash helped craft an orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan. They were never going to abandon Bagram Airfield. But Biden's foreign policy was simply to do the opposite of whatever Trump did. Also, the Joint Chiefs of Staff subverts the chain of command, when they are supposed to just have an advisory role. When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Millie called the Chinese to say he would warn them of any attacks, that was flagrantly illegal. Also, social engineering and vaccine mandates were harmful to military morale.

Chapter 16: orders from the Joint Chiefs are unlawful. All generals and admirals must report to the Secretary of Defense and the President. Lower ranking, enlisted personnel should have a say in who is hired to command them. Large defense contracts must be signed off by the Secretary of Defense, who reports to the President, who is accountable to the American people. The DoD needs an audit, and Congress needs to cut wasteful spending. The Office of Net Assessment played a major role in Russiagate, and should be eliminated.

Chapter 17: Kash was working at the Pentagon on J6. Trump had offered the National Guard, Kash heard him talk about it in the Oval Office days before, but the DC mayor turned it down in a letter dated J5. Ray Epps incited the protesters. 4 Trump supporters died on J6, no police. Only after the unrest began did the DC mayor call the Pentagon and ask for the National Guard. Kash and the DoD team then deployed the National Guard, and they secured the Capitol Building within 6 hours. Video showed many protesters had walked in unobstructed and stayed behind velvet ropes. Yet many were held indefinitely without bail, and commonly placed in solitary confinement.

Chapter 18: the Deep State controls the levers of power, but isn't that many people. As more people saw through their lies, they banned Trump from Twitter, they removed Parler from the App Store, and vilified MAGA Americans as Nazis. The J6 Committee was illegitimately formed. Republicans on the committee should've been Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, but instead we got Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. On TV, Cheney declared that Trump never gave the order to deploy the military. This is because local approval is also needed. She was rejected by Republican voters, and Kinzinger retired from Congress in disgrace. After the Trump administration, Kash served on the board of TruthSocial.

Chapter 19: a recap of the Biden destruction, including Russiagate, Afghanistan, and the Mar-a-Lago raid. The Deep State has been forced out into the open, and tens of millions of people now can see them clearly. More people are getting involved in politics. Kash mentions his Plot Against the King children's book series. He concludes by saying he was a hockey kid who wound up on the front lines of every battle against the Deep State over the past seven years, and he hopes others will be inspired to fight for the truth.

Appendix A: a recap of Kash's recommended reforms, including congressional oversight, prosecuting leakers, civil service reform, and reforms at the DoJ, FBI, Intelligence Community, and DoD.

Appendix B: It doesn't say enemies list. It says Members of the Executive Branch Deep State. I counted 60 names. Some are Democrats, like Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, and John Podesta, but some are Republicans like Bill Barr and John Bolton. Biden and Harris are on there, but not Obama. Lloyd Austin, James Clapper, James Comey, Mark Esper, Merrick Garland, Gina Haspel, Eric Holder, Cassidy Hutchinson, Andrew McCabe, Mark Millie, Lisa Page, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Christopher Wray, and more.

Appendix C: the Nunes Memo, the DoD J6 timeline, the Capitol Police J6 timeline, the J5 letter from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declining the National Guard, and the Biden Administration Inspector General J6 Report. Kash felt actually the Biden IG demonstrated commendable fairness and devotion to the truth. All of these official documents support Kash's version of events.