Subject: Re: Only the best...
Several officials told me that Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government.

Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights, six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel’s schedule told me.

Tiedrich: Bill Barr threw a shit-fit when Donny wanted to make Kash the FBI’s deputy director during his first reign.

“I told Mark Meadows it would happen ‘over my dead body’ ... Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency.”