Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., said Monday on Newsmax that the Senate needs to push the confirmations of all of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees through, especially Kash Patel, who has been nominated to lead the FBI.
"It's been a disaster for the last four years with the FBI, the CIA, our military, our intel agencies," Tuberville told "Newsline." "Something has to change. Seventy-seven million people voted for a change in this country and we need to very quickly confirm all the people that you just announced, Kash Patel being one of those. Our FBI right now is going down the wrong path. We've got too many woke agendas and too many different teams in the FBI. We need one leader, one person to go in and shake this up and get us going in the right direction.
"Look what happened in New Orleans last week," he continued, referring to the New Year's Day vehicle attack in the city's famed French Quarter. "Right off the bat, FBI agent, for some reason, said, 'Oh, this wasn't a terrorist plot.' Well, you know, the guy had an ISIS flag on his truck. I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that.
"So, we've got to get back to reality, got to be some common sense, but we've got to have some kind of protection and security for the people of this country. That's our number one job."
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of Texas, plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring 30 others.
The FBI quickly declared that the Jan. 1 attack was not linked to terrorism, before reversing course and announcing that the black flag of the ISIS terror group had been recovered from the vehicle Jabbar used.
The U.S. Army veteran reportedly rented the truck on the Turo app, which was also used by an active-duty Army special forces soldier to rent a Tesla Cybertruck that was exploded in front of the Trump Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday. Investigators have said the two incidents are unrelated.
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