Kash Patel gets to work reforming the FBI after 51-49 Senate confirmation vote

Trump loyalist Kash Patel has already begun the monumental task of reforming the FBI after being confirmed on a 51-49 vote to be the next FBI Director.

Patel was sworn into his 10-year term on Friday afternoon and immediately spent the rest of the day meeting with his new staff at the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building.

The new agency director has promised to bring sweeping reforms to the scandal-ridden FBI that has been politicized by Democrats for years.

If Patel wants to be successful, he's already running behind, as the guilty parties he's likely targeting have had months to cover their tracks since President Donald Trump won the presidential election in November.

The delayed confirmation process gave corrupt individuals at the FBI even more time to hide their misdeeds, thanks to Senate Democrats' efforts to obstruct Patel's nomination.

"Let Good Cops Be Good Cops"

While Patel has extensive plans to purge the FBI of political actors, he also wants to raise standards and support "good cops" instead of punishing solid police work, a philosophy in keeping with the original purpose of the FBI.

Patel is considering shutting down the FBI's main headquarters, a move he suggested he would do on day one, but one on which he has since changed his mind.

However, he is going forward with plans to increase transparency and make the FBI more accessible to the public.

In a statement to Fox News, Patel confirmed that he wants to "Let good cops be cops -- and rebuild trust in the FBI," which begins with moving large numbers of agents and other employees into the field.

Patel's initiatives are enthusiastically supported by rank-and-file FBI agents, but that sentiment likely disappears going up the chain of command.

Under former Director Christopher Wray, the FBI became a partisan force that was used by former President Joe Biden to investigate political opponents, specifically President Donald Trump, whose home was raided by the agency.

Political Purge Alleged

The FBI has become undeniably partisan over the past few years, but in an ironic twist, Democrats attempted to stop Patel's nomination by claiming he was going to purge those political elements from the agency.

Democrats framed Patel's desire to purge ideologues and eliminate partisan corruption as "political retaliation." Thankfully, this ridiculous and ironic framing failed and Patel was confirmed, but not without a serious fight.

Patel's nomination is great news for President Trump who handpicked Patel to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi to clean up the justice system after years of leftist infiltration.

The years of partisan political indictments are over, and those responsible need to be pushed out of the intelligence and law enforcement communities in order to send a message. If that's political retaliation, then so be it, at least as far as most of Trump's supporters are concerned.