Former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton skewered President-elect Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, accusing him of doing shoddy work and inflating his résumé. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal,

Threats by Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick for FBI director, to use the power of the bureau to scrutinize news outlets critical of the incoming administration are sending a chill through the media.

The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during sweeping leak investigations during Trump’s first term,