By The FirstKash Patel is an American attorney and former government official. He served as a US National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States Secretary of Defense during the Trump presidency. A member of the Republican Party, Kash previously worked as a senior aid to congressman Devin Nunes when he chaired the house intelligence committee. He was previously a federal public defender, a federal prosecutor working on national security cases and a legal liaison to the United States Armed Forces. He played a key role in unearthing wrongdoing by the FBI and DOJ in President Trump’s Russia-gate matter. Kash was the author of the Nunes memo which proved that FISA’s were illegally and unethically secured for political motives. Kash is an accomplished author and currently has a best selling book titled government gangsters, which was just made into a movie.
