Over the past four years, the FBI’s leadership has betrayed its mission, becoming a weapon in the hands of the radical Left against conservatives and people of faith and for numerous partisan interests. President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director is a crucial step toward cleaning up this embattled institution and restoring its integrity.

I have witnessed firsthand how Christopher Wray’s tenure as FBI director has been defined by dishonesty and a blatant disregard for the rule of law. During a 2023 House Judiciary Committee hearing, I listened as Wray insisted that a memo targeting Catholics for their faith originated from a “single field office” in Richmond, Virginia. Evidence we uncovered at the Judiciary Committee proved this was a lie. The memo was the product of multiple field offices, including Portland, Oregon, and Los Angeles. More shockingly, Wray presented a deceptively redacted version of this memo to Congress, hoping to cover up the full scope of the FBI’s targeting of Catholics.