{"id":21250,"date":"2026-01-24T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21250"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:57:19","slug":"senior-fbi-official-describes-surreal-call-where-kash-patel-dictated-social-media-strategy-right-after-kirk-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21250","title":{"rendered":"Senior FBI Official Describes \u2018Surreal\u2019 Call Where Kash Patel Dictated Social Media Strategy Right After Kirk Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;Whenever there\u2019s a critical incident, one of the first things that happens is a conference call with everybody \u2014 all the executives, most of the field offices dial in. The director rarely speaks, because someone with situational awareness is leading the call. They\u2019ll say: Here\u2019s what happened. Here\u2019s what we know. Here\u2019s what we need. But we get on, and it\u2019s just Kash berating the special agent in charge in Salt Lake. He\u2019s super emotional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then it turns surreal. He and [then-Deputy Director Dan] Bongino start talking about their Twitter strategy. And Kash is like: I\u2019m gonna tweet this. Salt Lake, you tweet that. Dan, you come in with this. Then I\u2019ll come back with this. They\u2019re literally scripting out their social media, not talking about how we\u2019re going to respond or resources or the situation. He\u2019s screaming that he wants to put stuff out, but it\u2019s not even vetted yet. It\u2019s not even accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was an agent, I did hundreds of these cases. The initial information that comes in is always wrong. There\u2019s too much coming in, and it takes time to vet. And it was obvious that Kash can\u2019t understand that and doesn\u2019t want to understand that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone on the call is just like: This guy is completely out of control. On another call, he said: When a crisis happens, the only thing you need to do is call me. The most important thing in any crisis is controlling the narrative. I was like: No, no, no. We actually have to do some work here. We\u2019re going to have to investigate, to solve this.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senior-fbi-official-describes-surreal-231348114.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senior-fbi-official-describes-surreal-231348114.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;Whenever there\u2019s a critical incident, one of the first things that happens is a conference call with everybody \u2014 all the executives, most of the field offices dial in. The director rarely speaks, because someone with situational awareness is leading the call. They\u2019ll say: Here\u2019s what happened. Here\u2019s what we know. Here\u2019s what we need. But we get on, and it\u2019s just Kash berating the special agent in charge in Salt Lake. He\u2019s super emotional.<\/p>\n<p>And then it turns surreal. He and [then-Deputy Director Dan] Bongino start talking about their Twitter strategy. And Kash is like: I\u2019m gonna tweet this. Salt Lake, you tweet that. Dan, you come in with this. Then I\u2019ll come back with this. They\u2019re literally scripting out their social media, not talking about how we\u2019re going to respond or resources or the situation. He\u2019s screaming that he wants to put stuff out, but it\u2019s not even vetted yet. It\u2019s not even accurate.<\/p>\n<p>When I was an agent, I did hundreds of these cases. The initial information that comes in is always wrong. There\u2019s too much coming in, and it takes time to vet. And it was obvious that Kash can\u2019t understand that and doesn\u2019t want to understand that.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone on the call is just like: This guy is completely out of control. On another call, he said: When a crisis happens, the only thing you need to do is call me. The most important thing in any crisis is controlling the narrative. I was like: No, no, no. We actually have to do some work here. We\u2019re going to have to investigate, to solve this.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/senior-fbi-official-describes-surreal-231348114.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,33,170],"class_list":["post-21250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21251,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions\/21251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}