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Overlooked Kash Patel remark hints at ominous — and ‘desperate’ — midterm plot: analysis

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FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled for nearly five hours Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and one overlooked exchange raised alarm for former senior Homeland Security official Miles Taylor. At the hearing, Patel was asked by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) whether he would commit to not sending FBI agents to polling places during the midterms. Patel not only refused to make such a commitment, but “seemed to hint,” Taylor argued, that the agency was already “pre-positioned to do it.” “Patel is teeing up the possibility, if not the likelihood, that the FBI will deploy personnel toward the polls across its field offices,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack Wednesday. “And I suspect the regime’s lawyers think they’ve found a clever workaround, namely, leaving their guns at the office.” Taylor flagged a “Civil War-era” federal statute that prohibits “any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held,” with a narrow exception for in