The FBI’s deputy director in the first Trump administration, Andrew McCabe said he was left dumbfounded by the decision of the bureau’s current leader, Kash Patel, to visit Utah as authorities hunt for the killer of Charlie Kirk.

“There are many good reasons why you wouldn’t go, if you’re the director, out to the scene of an ongoing post-crisis investigation,” McCabe told CNN Newsnight host Abby Phillip.

“One of the reasons not to do that is because the presence of the director imposes a huge burden on the field office. There’s all kinds of arrangements that have to be made, there’s all kinds of security concerns that arise,” McCabe said.

“Transportation becomes very complicated, and that’s the last thing you want to do to the field office while they’re in the middle of investigating a

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