Day: February 9, 2025

Kash Patel, who served in senior advisory roles in the intelligence community and State Department during the first Trump administration, is the preferred candidate of the MAGA faction of the Republican Party and has proposed drastic reforms for the nation’s premier domestic intelligence agency. Meanwhile, former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and former FBI special agent, once served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and is seen as a candidate with a more centrist approach.

Other possible candidates, including former U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Mark Morgan and former U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen of Missouri, were floated in a CNN report.