National Review’s senior editor, Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that while Kash Patel — Trump’s nominee for FBI director — “is somewhat of a crazy person,” he agrees with what Patel has proposed to do with the agency.

“This is my burn-it-down side, which is very rarely expressed,” said Cooke. “But as I’ve said before, I think the FBI is a disgrace. I think it always has been. I don’t think it operates properly within our Constitution.”

While Cooke dislikes some of Patel’s previous statements, he’s “heard him outline what he wants to do with the FBI and I agree with it. I think moving it out of D.C. is great. I think trying to prevent it from being as politicized as it is by stopping it from becoming a location for people to sit around and wait for their next promotion is great. I think taking away its intelligence-collecting apparatus is imperative.

“Unlike with the vast majority of the institutions that we are discussing week in week out on this show,” Cooke said, “I’m not persuaded that the FBI is that complicated.

“I don’t mind if someone burns the building down and fires everyone because I think it is irredeemable.”

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