Given the current... circumstances, massively expanding the federal government's policing powers might not be a good idea right now.
“I’d shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state,’” Patel said in an interview on the “Shawn Ryan Show” that aired in September. “Then, I’d take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops. You’re cops — go be cops.”
The last part is generally--dishonestly--omitted in the headlines from our favorite and most trusted news sources. (edit: which is done to frame Patel as wanting to fire them all--a pathetic stunt that is no longer surprising from these corrupt tools.)
Anyway, what are these "circumstances" to which you refer?
As for the parent comment, this administration plans to put more agents in the field immediately. Why is that a problem? Perhaps try persuasion instead of vague dogwhistles about 'circumstances.'
Every FBI director is an unelected bureaucrat. Patel will be as well.
And people really, really need to stop triggering themselves over the term (simply because it is often misunderstood and used as conspiracy fodder).