Monday, 3 February 2025

understudy (12. 203)

Pending senate approval for Trump’s nominee Kash Patel as director of the FBI, two officials from the bureau were selected to run it on an acting basis. The White House however listed the wrong individual on their webpage and instead of correcting the mistake, hopeful that Patel would be confirmed soon—we learn from Super Punch, the two temporary appointees just swapped offices and titles. Career special agent Brian “the Drizz” Driscoll, originally tasked by the presidential transition team to be the deputy serving under the acting director exchanged roles with the intended individual, and against the backdrop of the purging of civil servants executed the order to dismiss senior executives and compile a dossier of thousands of others taking part in investigations linked to the January Sixth insurrection, including Driscoll himself and boss-cum-adjutant, though not without some laudable resistance. Though toning down the rhetoric during hearings and promising that there would be no political retribution, Patel has expressed enthusiasm bout weaponising the umbrella organisation of the Justice Department to pursue Trump’s opponents and to turn the Hoover Building headquarters in to a museum on the misdeeds of the Deep State.


synchronoptica

one year ago: renovating Hamburg’s air defence bunker (with synchronoptica), animator Jordan Belson plus assorted links worth revisiting

seven years ago: concentration camp chic

eight years ago: more links to enjoy 

nine years ago: tax-havens, gas prices at record lows plus persistence of vision

ten years ago: Beatles LoTR, TTIP and TAFTA plus even more links