Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/us/politics/kashyap-patel-nunes-memo.html
Kashyap Patel, Main Author of Secret Memo, Is No Stranger to Quarrels
By KATIE ROGERS and MATTHEW ROSENBERG | FEB. 2, 2018

WASHINGTON — Kashyap Patel is a lawyer who has sometimes run afoul of the rules.

As a lawyer in Florida, Mr. Patel, 37, entered and then dropped out of a charity bachelor auction featuring some colleagues after a blogger pointed out that his license to practice in the state appeared out of date. In 2016, as a counterterrorism prosecutor for the Justice Department, he was berated by a federal judge who then issued an “Order on Ineptitude” directed at the entire agency. And over the summer, in a trip arranged outside official channels, he traveled to London, where he tried unsuccessfully to meet with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that purported to details links between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to multiple people with knowledge of the trip.

After less than a year as a Republican staff member on the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Patel has found himself in the middle of another controversy. According to congressional sources, he is the primary author of the politically charged memo, released on Friday by the committee chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, over the opposition of the F.B.I. and the intelligence community, that accuses federal officials of bias against President Trump.

Democrats, led by Representative Adam B. Schiff, the ranking minority member on the committee, were scathing in their criticism of both the report and the decision to release it to the public.

[GusBob]

1. Even in the office of Nunes they called it the Patel memo

[TomSlick]

2. Your tax dollars at work.

[Tatiana]

3. Who hired him at DOJ? That's what I want to know.

This man appears to be a Russian asset.

[Cha]

5. He sure loves him some donald trump now..

I couldn't find a bio on him.. no Wikipedia page, either.

This is from the link..

This just says.. "according to his FB page.. we already know he lies..

He spent part of his career in the Miami area as a federal public defender in Florida before surprising his co-workers there by taking a job at the Justice Department in 2014, according to his Facebook profile.

In early 2016, during a court appearance in Houston, Mr. Patel found himself in the cross hairs of Judge Lynn N. Hughes of Federal District Court, who became incensed that Mr. Patel had used the internet credentials of another lawyer to give notice that he would be involved in a terrorism case, and then did not like how he was dressed.

“The last thing I need here, Mr. Patel,” the judge said, according to a transcript of the hearing, “is a bureaucrat who flies down here at great expense and causes trouble rather than actually is a productive member of the team.”

And, so on.. interesting article

[winstars]

4. So this clown is the Roy Cohn character and Nunes is the Joe McCarthy in the remake of early 50's???

[yurbud]

7. except Roy Cohn was evil AND competent.

[Cha]

6. Thanks, dalton! i've never heard of this

person until right now.

Good article.. he was caught lying once by a Federal Judge in Houston, Texas.

[JI7]

8. Fucking fool