By Michael Spivack via Daily Caller News Foundation | December 19, 2024
Kash Patel’s nomination to serve as the next FBI director is historic for many reasons. He’ll be the first Indian-American and the first public defender to serve as FBI director, respectively.
It’s that last feat that is most important to me considering I worked with Kash at the Federal Public Defender’s office in Miami from 2009 to 2014.
It’s also the one that I expected Democrats to be most excited about, yet they never mention it in their screeds attacking Kash Patel. The Kash that I know and worked with isn’t the caricature you read about in the press that will “lock up his enemies.”
The Public Defender of the Southern District of Florida’s office where we worked was reputed for being one of, if not the best, public defense offices in the country. The defender took her office’s reputation seriously and only hired people like Kash who were levelheaded, even keeled, and fact-based in their arguments.
Kash fought for due process for his clients no matter what they were accused of doing. He defended gun smugglers, an alleged dirty cop, a Colombian narcotrafficker, and a drug dealer nicknamed “slug.”
In fact, Kash had already worked as a public defender before he joined the federal PD office in Miami as he spent four years prior with the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office. There he tried dozens of cases to verdict with charges including murder, kidnapping, and armed carjacking.
Kash Patel is thus in my view the perfect pick to spearhead the FBI and implement the mandate by the Americans to course correct our current justice system.
Kash’s work experience has given him a unique approach to lead the FBI. He’s worked years and years for people who can’t afford their own attorney — the only explanation for someone to take that career path is because they believe in the justice system in the way Kash does. He understands that aside from serving in the military the best way to keep people free is to keep the justice system impartial and keep government abuse in check.
I’m nearing the forty-year mark as an attorney, and I can’t find a name I’d recommend above Kash for the job. He’s true to the mission of upholding the law, abiding by the Constitution, and has made sure even the nastiest of human traffickers, most vile of terrorists, most robust drug lords and high-end white-collar crimes are all seen, tried and given what they deserve by a fair and apolitical justice system through the eyes of due process. In fact, in one case that made the news, Kash exposed a federal prosecutor for withholding key evidence in a drug trafficking trial from the defense.
Kash’s tried-and-true approach has allowed him to defend those who otherwise would have no voice in the lowest of courts and throw the extent of the book at ISIS and Al-Qaida affiliated criminals while serving under both Democrat and Republican presidents.
President Donald Trump barnstormed the country and promised again and again he’d restore the trust of the American people by taking politics out of the FBI and ending the weaponization of the federal government. Kash will be the first public defender to claim the head desk at the FBI, root out the weeds that have taken over one of the most historic and necessary institutions of our federal government, and restore the FBI’s focus on deterring criminals from committing crimes and getting to the bottom of it when they do.
Michael Spivack was an assistant public defender. He is currently a solo practitioner criminal defense attorney.
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