One Key JFK File That Kash Patel Could Release If He's Confirmed as FBI Director

Trump's nominee has proposed a '24/7 declassification office' in the White House

Kash Patel was Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the first Trump administration (Credit: America First Report)

President-elect Donald J. Trump has nominated 44-year-old Kashyap Pramod “Kash” Patel to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A former Department of Justice prosecutor under President Barack Obama, Patel went on to serve in a series of national security roles during Trump’s first term, including chief of staff of the Secretary of Defense.

Trump wants to replace the current director, Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed in 2017 and is now in the eighth year of a 10-year term. Patel, known as the most loyal of Trump loyalists, has promised to prosecute journalists, saying he will “come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections.”

Patel has also come out swinging on the issue of over-classification of government files, and — at first glance — the news looks positive for proponents of official transparency in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In his book, “Government Gangsters” (2023), the presumptive nominee called for a permanent, full-time declassification office in the White House to address continuing secrecy over JFK, 9/11, and other issues.