Kash Patel: “Our sacs in the field now do their own deputizations.”

“And the mechanics of which that slowed it down were also these things called cross deputizations. For whatever reason, we allowed another agency outside of the Bureau to do our deputizations, which took another three, four, five months. Our sacs in the field now do their own deputizations. And the last thing is our National Academy. It's the best program the FBI has for state and local partners.” (51:00–51:04)

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