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paragraph_text: Intelligence agencies and investigations
  
  We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we're going to come after you.
  
  Patel has conformed to Trump's view that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become politicized. He has argued that the bureau should be distanced from Washington, D.C., citing James Comey 's handling of the FBI investigation into the Hillary Clinton email controversy. In February 2022, he told Fox News that lawyers for Hillary Clinton had worked to "infiltrate" Trump Tower and White House servers; Patel's claim was used in a Fox News headline that was falsely attributed to a filing in the Durham special counsel investigation. In December 2023, Patel told Steve Bannon on War Room that he would "come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections"—echoing false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. His memoir, Government Gangsters (2023), calls for weakening civil service job protections; Trump praised the book as a "roadmap to end the Deep State's reign". In September 2024, Patel vowed to close the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the FBI, "reopen it the next day as a museum of the 'deep state'," and "take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals." He criticized Elon Musk 's acquisition of Twitter on his podcast, Kash ' s Corner, calling him a monopolist who had improper access to data and accrued his wealth through government contracts.
  
  We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we're going to come after you.
  
  Patel has conformed to Trump's view that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become politicized. He has argued that the bureau should be distanced from Washington, D.C., citing James Comey 's handling of the FBI investigation into the Hillary Clinton email controversy. In February 2022, he told Fox News that lawyers for Hillary Clinton had worked to "infiltrate" Trump Tower and White House servers; Patel's claim was used in a Fox News headline that was falsely attributed to a filing in the Durham special counsel investigation. In December 2023, Patel told Steve Bannon on War Room that he would "come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections"—echoing false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. His memoir, Government Gangsters (2023), calls for weakening civil service job protections; Trump praised the book as a "roadmap to end the Deep State's reign". In September 2024, Patel vowed to close the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the FBI, "reopen it the next day as a museum of the 'deep state'," and "take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals." He criticized Elon Musk 's acquisition of Twitter on his podcast, Kash ' s Corner, calling him a monopolist who had improper access to data and accrued his wealth through government contracts.