Last week, Donald Trump named Kash Patel as his choice for F.B.I. director. As you will recall, Kash was one of Trump's leading defenders when the Democrats and “never Trumpers” accused him of being a Russian asset. He has been a defense attorney, a prosecutor, and has also served considerable time in government intelligence agencies. A few months ago, he gave a speech at a conservative organization's national meeting in which he identified two government officials who had conspired to keep Trump under Justice Department observation through giving false information to a FISA court. He then observed that these same ...