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Miranda Devine: FBI Director Kash Patel’s flamboyant lifestyle hits agency morale — while terror attacks strike US

The day Operation Epic Fury began in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel announced he was putting the bureau’s counterterrorism and intelligence teams on “high alert” for threats to the homeland over concerns about terror attacks from Tehran or its proxies.

“While the military handles force protection overseas, the FBI remains at the forefront of deterring attacks here at home,” Patel tweeted.

The same day, the Department of Homeland Security issued a law enforcement bulletin warning of potential lone-wolf attacks on home soil by “US-based violent extremists or hate crime perpetrators.”

A few hours later, Senegalese migrant and naturalized US citizen Ndiaga Diagne, 53, opened fire on a crowded bar in Austin, Texas, killing three people and injuring 13 while wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie and an undershirt with an Iranian flag design.

After he was shot dead by police, a Quran was found in Diagne’s car and photographs of Iranian regime leaders at his home, leading the FBI to conclude that the attack was “potentially an act of terrorism” and the Texas Tribune immediately to report an alleged surge in “Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim backlash.”

Obviously, it’s not Islamophobia that is the problem. Since Austin, there have been three more Islamist terrorist attacks on home soil.

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