https://closertotheedge.substack.com

04/23/2025

Kash Patel didn’t stumble into the FBI directorship by accident. He was placed — precisely, surgically — to serve the return of Donald J. Trump and to execute Project 2025 with ruthless efficiency. This isn’t conjecture. This is an operation. And the public-private partnership push is the most elegant piece of it.

Forget everything you thought you knew about FBI partnerships. This isn’t about safety anymore. It’s about loyalty. Compliance. Control. Under Patel, the FBI doesn’t just collaborate with companies — it recruits them into a parallel intelligence network that reports not to the Constitution, but to the regime.

In Patel’s Bureau, access to intel is currency. If your company cooperates — if you give the right people access, if you don’t ask questions, if you agree to filter internal dissent as “insider threat data” — then you’ll get real-time alerts, advanced malware signatures, maybe even a seat at the Domestic Security Alliance Council table.

But if you hesitate? If your general counsel wants more oversight? If your CEO speaks out about authoritarian overreach or refuses to provide quiet backdoor access to data? Then your partnership is “reevaluated.” Your access to federal resources gets cut. Your threat briefings dry up. The next cyberattack you face might arrive without warning. And no one picks up the phone when you call.