Angels’ Jo Adell says he needs to be more aggressive at the plate

• May 8, 2025

ANAHEIM — The first pitch Jo Adell saw in the eighth inning on Tuesday night was a hanging slider.

The Angels outfielder hammered it 418 feet, over the center field fence. It was his first home run since April 10, and it was symbolic of what Adell believes has gone wrong.

“I’m taking a lot of pitches I think I should be hitting early in the count,” Adell said on Wednesday. “I’m letting a lot of pitches go by, which is something that I haven’t done in the past. I’ve been aggressive in the zone early.”

Manager Ron Washington sees the same thing.

“I think what the (coaches are) trying to do is get him to quit taking so many balls down the middle of the plate,” Washington said. “When you do that, you’re guessing. So trying to get him to see the ball and just let it fly. When he sees the ball and lets it fly, he’s more consistent. Sometimes he gets up there and he wants to work the plate, and they’re just throwing bastard pitches.”

Adell is hitting .183 with a .547 OPS and three home runs. He’s struck out in 29.6% of his plate appearances and walked in 4.1%, both well below the major league average.

Adell was on the bench to start Wednesday’s game, the fifth time in the last seven games that he hasn’t been in the lineup.

“The lineup is what it is,” Adell said on Wednesday. “I continue to work and hopefully find my way back in there when I can.”

Perhaps a new bat will help.

Adell has used the new “torpedo” bats four times this season. He has two hits with the new bats, including the homer on Tuesday night.

Mostly, though, Adell said it’s just a matter of being more aggressive at the plate.

“You try to make it too perfect,” Adell said. “Hitting isn’t perfect. And like, for me, just going back and understanding that I’m the type of guy that I’m trying to drive the ball and score runs. It doesn’t have to be a perfect pitch to do so. Just really staying there with the aggressiveness. Kind of forget everything else. I’m not a work the count type of guy. I get a strike and I can do some damage.”

ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SLUMP

The Angels’ seven-run outburst on Tuesday ended a 21-game stretch in which they scored just 52 runs – the lowest scoring stretch of that length for the Angels since 1992. They hit .197 and went 5-16 in those games.

They played 16 of those games, however, against teams that currently rank in the top eight in the majors in ERA.

Heading into Wednesday’s games, the Detroit Tigers ranked second in the majors with a 2.96 ERA. The Texas Rangers were fifth (3.37), the Houston Astros were sixth (3.43), the San Francisco Giants were seventh (3.46) and the Minnesota Twins were eighth (3.46). Two of the other five games were against the Seattle Mariners, who ranked 12th (3.72).

Their big offensive night on Tuesday came against a Toronto Blue Jays team that ranks 23rd (4.37). This weekend they play the Baltimore Orioles, who rank 29th (5.49).

NOTES

Mike Trout (bone bruise in left knee) is “feeling better, but he’s still not able to do baseball activities,” Washington said on Wednesday. Trout said he hopes that he is on the injured list for the minimum 10 days. He’s eligible to be activated on Sunday. …

Outfielder Gustavo Campero was not in the lineup on Wednesday, a day after suffering a sprained left ankle on an awkward swing. Campero was not placed on the injured list, though. Washington said he’s day to day. …

Right-hander Sam Bachman (thoracic outlet syndrome) is scheduled for his second rehab outing on Friday, Washington said. Bachman pitched a perfect inning on seven pitches on Tuesday night with Class-A Inland Empire. …

For the second straight day, left fielder Taylor Ward took some swings in early batting practice against a minor league pitcher the Angels brought to Angel Stadium specifically to help him get more comfortable at the plate. Ward had two hits, including a homer, after going through a similar workout on Tuesday. …

A day after closer Kenley Jansen was unavailable because of an illness, Washington said he’s “much better than yesterday,” and he planned on him being available. However, Washington added the caveat that they would have to see how he felt in the late innings of the game.

UP NEXT

Blue Jays (RHP Chris Bassitt, 2-2, 2.95 ERA) at Angels (RHP José Soriano, 2-4, 3.83 ERA), Thursday, 6:38 p.m., FDSN West, 830 AM

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Man who crashed into Jennifer Aniston’s gate is charged with stalking, vandalism

• May 8, 2025

A man accused of ramming his vehicle into the front gate of actress Jennifer Aniston‘s Bel Air home was charged Wednesday with felony counts of stalking and vandalism.

Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Monday by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Los Angeles station after private security guards helped detain him outside Aniston’s home in the 900 block of Airole Way.

Prosecutors said he crashed into the front gate of the home, “causing substantial damage.”

Carwyle is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at the Airport Branch Courthouse.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Carwyle has allegedly been harassing Aniston since March of 2023 by “sending her unwanted social media, voicemail and email messages.”

Carwyle allegedly made multiple social media posts referencing the actress, with some of them referring to her as his wife.

He faces up to three years in prison if convicted as charged, according to prosecutors.

“Stalking is a crime that can quickly escalate from harassment to dangerous, violent actions, threatening the safety of victims and our communities,” District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement. “My office is committed to aggressively prosecuting those who stalk and terrorize others, ensuring they are held accountable.”

Carwyle remains in custody without bail. During Thursday’s arraignment hearing, prosecutors plan to ask that his bail be set the statutory level of $150,000, according to the D.A.’s Office.

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After 5 years away, TV On The Radio kicks off 2025 tour at Just Like Heaven Festival

• May 8, 2025

Singer Tunde Adebimpe says that when TV On The Radio decided to play its first shows in five years at the end of 2024, he and his bandmates were excited, if a bit apprehensive.

“From the inside, especially if you haven’t done it for a while, it’s just hard to tell,” he says of the uncertainty of taking the indie rock band on the road again. “Like, when we stopped for a second in 2019, was that the end of it? Was that the wrong thing to do?

“Because five years in internet time is like 80 years, you know?” Adebimpe says. “Maybe no one cares anymore.”

People definitely cared. The 11 shows scheduled in November and December, including three in Los Angeles, all sold out quickly, Adebimpe says.

Now TV On The Radio is set to play Just Like Heaven, the annual indie rock festival in Pasadena, on Saturday, May 10, followed by a run of more than 30 shows in North America and Europe this spring and summer.

“It was so great to go back out,” says Adebimpe, who in April also released his solo debut, “Thee Black Boltz.” “The shows were just kind of ecstatic. There was a loud rumbling of noise the entire show. … It just felt like a big party every single show. So that’s exciting.

“We’re back and doing it, and it feels good.”

Just Like Heaven focuses primarily on the indie rock scene of the late ’90s and ’00s. Vampire Weekend headlines this year, with a Rilo Kiley reunion and acts including Empire of the Sun, Bloc Party, Slowdive, Toro Y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra among others set to play.

“It’s a little surreal in a way,” Adebimpe says of the history and connections many of the festival’s bands share. “Because it does kind of feel you’re looking into a high school yearbook and you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, we used to hang out,’ and ‘I know those guys. We ran into those guys on the road.’”

In addition to Adebimpe, TV On The Radio currently includes original members singer-guitarist Kyp Malone and multi-instrumentalist Jaleel Bunton. Guitarist-keyboardist Dave Sitek, who founded the group with Adebimple, is not currently playing live shows. Touring musicians drummer Japhet Landis, multi-instrumentalist Dave “Smoota” Smith, and bassist Jesske Hume round out the lineup.

In an interview edited for length and clarity, Adebimpe talked about the accidental origins of the band in Brooklyn in the late ’90s, the impact of the 9/11 terror attacks on indie bands like his, and how he finally decided to release a solo album now.

Q: So why did TV On The Radio take five years off the road?

A: Touring can be a pretty intense thing. I mean, we’re not in our 70s, but as you get older, and you have any semblance of a home life, you’ve got to choose. If you really love something and you start getting burnt out, you’re kind of like, ‘This used to inspire me and now it’s burning me out.’ Luckily, if you’re in a position to step away, it can be the best thing for it.

Then you realize what you liked about that. You realize what led to that burnout to avoid. And I think as you get older, hopefully you get smarter about what you can take the best from and what petty nonsense you can leave behind.

Everyone was really psyched to do it, which is always pleasant. And we’re better at it, you know, even taking a long break, you come back and just start playing.

Q: Let’s go back to the beginning of the band. How you and Dave Sitek came together, what the plan was at the start.

A: There was absolutely no plan at all, which was the best part of it, I think. I was living in this loft in Brooklyn. There were maybe 10 people there. When we first moved in, it was $100 a month, so I grabbed 10 of my friends and built drywall rooms. It was just like a shanty town indoors.

Do you know the band Antibalas? They lived at the loft because my best friend Martin Perna was the founder, so that took up about eight people. Then we had a party one night. This is like Williamsburg in 1996 or ’97, so it wasn’t fully gentrified. It was sort of a warehouse party and the next, our upstairs neighbor, who was a documentary filmmaker, and her roommate, who was a cellist, called the landlord and said everybody had to go.

Q: But you stayed?

A: The super was a friend of mine. He brought people in, and one of the people was Dave’s brother Jason, who I knew and was friendly with. But literally, I would stay in my room, and there’d be a new roommate out there all the time. I’d be like, “Do you live here? Are you just visiting?”

Dave moved from Austin, and there was an extra room in the loft. I don’t think I knew he was in there for maybe the first two weeks. Then one day I walked by his room, and the door was open, and it was just a bunch of tubes of paint, some canvases, a four-track [tape recorder], bunches of tapes everywhere, a mattress on the floor, some packs of cigarettes.

The first thing I thought was just like, “Yeah, that kind of looks like my room.” So we painted together and sold paintings on the street in Soho when we weren’t working odd jobs, and just hung out and started making music together.

It wasn’t really a band thing; we just started making weirdo stuff. We put out a sort of mix CD of all things that we ended up calling “OK Calculator” as a kind of joke on [Radiohead’s][ “OK Computer.” Because we had money for a calculator, not a computer.

Q: How’d you make the move from the loft to playing live?

A: There was a bar around the corner called the Stinger. The owner was starting to do little acts and said, “You guys want to come over here? We know you have this CD-R thing.’ So we went over, and it was an improv thing every night, and a catastrophe every single night. But that was the beginning of, “Oh, this thing is TV On The Radio and it has a live element to it.”

Q: But eventually, you got better. When did it start to feel like a serious thing you were doing?

A: We’d done all these shows. The part I’m leaving out is that September 11 happened, and then everybody quit their jobs, their odd jobs. People were like, “OK, we don’t know what’s going to happen; we don’t know if we’re going to die. We should probably die doing the thing we want to do the most.”

I think that sharpened up not just us, but a lot of bands and artists at the time. So everyone kind of got it together in that respect. We made the “Young Liars” EP at that time. That was just me and Dave. I think Kyp was on a song. But Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is playing drums on the whole thing, and Nick Zinner [also of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs] is playing guitar on “Staring At The Sun.”

Gerard [Smith, TVOTR’s original bassist] and Jaleel joined the band after that. The EP made its way to Corey Rusk at Touch and Go and he signed us. As soon as you sign any sort of record deal, you owe somebody something. That’s when you really realize, like, “OK, we’re a band, and we’re doing this.”

Q: I want to ask you about “Thee Black Boltz,” your first solo album. You’ve always done side projects but why not a solo record until now?

A: Again, it wasn’t really a plan. The band took a break in 2019, and in addition to a bunch of other stuff I was doing to stay busy, I went looking for old hard drives for songs. It really was just something to do. Something that I default to doing whenever, you know. If I’m not making something or drawing or in some way being creative – it sounds like a weird way to put it, but just working –  then everything gets very confusing for me.

I just went through those things and kept going. It was sort of with the idea that I don’t know when the band is going to do anything again, I want to see how far I can take these things. The pandemic hit pretty soon after that, so I had the time. And eventually it seemed like, “Oh, I’ve got enough here for a record.” It just seemed like a real logical thing to do.

Q: It’s interesting how these bits and pieces from many years came together for a record that sounds thematically unified.

A: There really wasn’t a plan as far as theme. I think it could be more defined by a vibe of, ‘This feels correct and this feels very awkward.’ And separating what feels correct, whether it’s sonically or lyrically or whatever, rhythmically, in one box. Everything that feels like it doesn’t kind of whittles itself out pretty easily.

Q: I do love all the squelchy synths on it.

A: The house synth was definitely well used.

Q: And also how it opens with the title track, which is a poem or a spoken word piece.

A: I thought it’d be nice to have something that introduced it, or was a gateway to whatever world we were about to head into as listeners. I like a good story, or some good weirdness. For me, that poem is kind of a GPS or a very vague Rosetta Stone for the entire record. I don’t know, I just like a good chapter heading.

I think it can add whatever springboard for someone’s imagination to go into something. I think it’s nice somebody that, even if it’s just disorienting, they’re just like, ‘Why is that there? What happened?”

Q: It catches your attention and you pay attention or listen a little more closely.

A: It’s tape-recorded, too. The record starts with a tape playing, which I realized after. I came back to just working on a four-track. I wrote a lot of the demos for the record on a four-track, which was kind of a full-circle thing.

And it’s nice to have a little tape, the sound of a tape starting and stopping, in this digital world. It still very much warms my heart.

Just Like Heaven

When: Saturday, May 10

Where: Parkside at the Rose Bowl, 1001 Rose Bowl Dr., Pasadena

How much: $250 for general admission, $460 for VIP, $700 for Clubhouse.

For more: See Justlikeheavenfest.com.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, May 7

• May 8, 2025

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WEDNESDAY’S SCORES

BASEBALL

GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE

Costa Mesa 5, Kennedy 0

CM: Morales (WP, 3IP, 0H, 0R, 4K) Simmonds 4IP, 2H, 0R, 5K, Rottschafer 1-3, R, 2B, Clark 1-3, 2R, Jackson 1-3, RBI, Dever 1-2, RBI

Note: Costa Mesa ties school-record of 22 wins.

CRESTVIEW LEAGUE

Villa Park 6, El Dorado 1

FREEWAY LEAGUE

La Habra 3, Canyon 2

NORTH HILLS LEAGUE

Esperanza 3, Sonora 2

Brea Olinda 8, Troy 0

NONLEAGUE

Loara 2, Savanna 0

Oaks Christian 10, JSerra 2

Laguna Beach 9, Pacifica Christian 1

Sage Hill 8, Western 0

Santa Margarita 5, Maranatha 4

Century 7, Portola 0

SOFTBALL

EMPIRE LEAGUE

Segerstrom 11, Garden Grove 0

GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE

Katella 10, Calvary Chapel 5

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Evan Phillips is latest Dodgers pitcher to go to injured list

• May 8, 2025

MIAMI — The Dodgers had to be relieved when Evan Phillips returned from a ligament tear in his rotator cuff and gave them seven scoreless appearances in the first two weeks after he was activated.

Then his arm started hurting.

Phillips went on the injured list on Wednesday with forearm discomfort, joining Blake Treinen and Michael Kopech on the sidelines from the back end of their ideal bullpen.

“I thought it was just reacclimating to the workload,” Phillips said. “I always felt good when I pitched, so that’s kind of where my disappointment comes in. I do feel like I can still contribute, but I think what it comes down to is we don’t want to mess around with something in early May.”

The soreness has “kind of bounced around a little bit,” Phillips said, affecting him “in my lower arm, or bicep, tricep, forearm.” He was getting different treatments but wasn’t recovering well from his outings.

“Could he have pitched today? Absolutely,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “No one knows how he would feel responding going forward. So I think for us, it just made the most sense to IL him. Our expectation is on that 16th day, he’ll be back active. It’s just more of a precaution.”

Phillips takes solace in the fact that he has had no recurrence of pain from last fall’s rotator cuff injury as he built up in a minor-league rehab assignment and rejoined the Dodgers’ bullpen in mid-April.

“The one bright side is my shoulder feels great,” he said. “It could be stemming from some rebuilt tissue in there that may be snug or built up a little bit differently now that I’m healthy in that regard. So it’s probably related in some ways, but at least I feel great in that area. I’m happy with that.”

Phillips said he isn’t sure how things will proceed from here. He could return to Los Angeles for an MRI or further examination.

“We’ll get to Arizona and kind of get our ducks in a row and create a plan, whether that’s getting back to L.A. and getting something figured out or see how things develop overnight,” he said. “I’m not happy to be in this position. I think we’ve made some great strides in my general recovery over the past couple of days. So hopefully we just keep building on that.”

COMING SOON

Left-hander Clayton Kershaw threw six no-hit innings against a team from the Cincinnati Reds’ complex in Arizona on Tuesday.

“Pretty impressive,” Roberts said. “He went back out to the ’pen to throw another dozen pitches, to get up to, call it 80. He was really good.”

Kershaw is scheduled to make his final rehab start with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday. That puts the three-time Cy Young Award winner on track to come off the IL and join the Dodgers’ starting rotation the following weekend.

START THROWING

Left-hander Blake Snell was supposed to start his throwing program during the Dodgers’ series in Miami, but he was “under the weather.” He was back in the clubhouse on Wednesday and is now scheduled to start playing catch on Friday in Arizona.

Right-hander Tyler Glasnow will not be with the team in Arizona but he is also expected to start throwing this weekend.

Snell has been out since April 2 with a sore shoulder. Glasnow has been out since April 27 with shoulder inflammation.

UP NEXT

Dodgers (RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, 4-2, 0.90 ERA) at Diamondbacks (RHP Brandon Pfaadt, 5-2, 3.79 ERA), Thursday, 6:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, 570 AM

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State Bar’s botched exam for new lawyers is California’s latest entry to the hall of shame

• May 8, 2025

Is there something in California’s water that induces the state’s bureaucrats to make boneheaded errors of judgment? It would seem so, given the sorry history of monumental screwups.

Many of the state government’s wrongheaded actions involve abortive efforts to use advanced technology.

The poster child for those high-tech basket cases has been Financial Information System for California, dubbed FI$Cal, which was supposed to be a comprehensive financial management system but has struggled for decades to become reliably functional. Its constant delays and cost overruns revealed that despite California’s global role in technology innovation, the state bureaucracy has been chronically unable to implement systems that work as promised.

Another tech fiasco occurred in the court system. The state Judicial Council and the Administrative Office of the Courts launched a project in 2002 that was supposed to be a centralized case management system. It was so deficient that after a decade of wheel-spinning costing more than a half-billion dollars, the project was abandoned.

The most spectacular example of mismanagement is the state’s Employment Development Department’s attempt to distribute billions of dollars in unemployment insurance benefits to those who lost jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did the EDD fail to deliver payments to many workers who needed them in a timely manner but it sent tens of billions of dollars in payments to fraudsters who gamed the system.

California doesn’t need another entrant on its list of managerial failures, but it has one in what happened when the State Bar changed its test of aspiring lawyers.

The licensing agency was feeling a financial pinch and formulated its own test to save money. When the exam was administered in February, it was a disaster.

“The online testing platforms repeatedly crashed before some applicants even started,” the Los Angeles Times reported. “Others struggled to finish and save essays, experienced screen lags and error messages and could not copy and paste text from test questions into the exam’s response field — a function officials had stated would be possible.”

Ever since, State Bar officials, exam takers, legislators and state Supreme Court justices have been arguing over what should be done with the obviously flawed results, especially after it was revealed that the agency used artificial intelligence to formulate exam questions — without making that known.

Last week, the Supreme Court lowered the passing score for the February exam and ordered the State Bar to dump its new system and return to the traditional test format.

On Monday, the State Bar announced that with the lower passing scores, 55.9% of February exam takers passed, as well as 76.5% of those who took a one-day exam, meaning the state has 2,436 new lawyers.

Simultaneously, the State Bar said it was suing Measure Learning, the vendor that administered the botched February exam, for fraud. The disaster also claimed  the State Bar’s executive director, Leah T. Wilson. Wilson said she would step down in July when her $400,000 annual contract is set to expire.

“Despite our best intentions, the experiences of applicants for the February Bar Exam simply were unacceptable, and I fully recognize the frustration and stress this experience caused,” Wilson said. “While there are no words to assuage those emotions, I do sincerely apologize.”

Wilson’s apologetic statement is a refreshing departure from the evasion of accountability that traditionally accompanies official debacles. That’s progress of a sort, but not making bad decisions would be preferable.

Dan Walters is a CalMatters columnist. 

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Costa Mesa City Council fires its city manager

• May 8, 2025

A divided Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday, May 6, fired City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, leaving the city without a top executive without providing an explanation for what led to her termination.

On the council’s closed session agenda Tuesday was an item titled “public employee performance evaluation.” City Attorney Kimberly Barlow said the council, in closed session, voted to terminate her employment agreement without cause.

The motion was made by Councilmember Loren Gameros, Barlow said.

The vote was 4-2-1. Councilmembers Arlis Reynolds and Andrea Marr voted against her termination, and Mayor John Stephens abstained.

“I’m grateful for Lori Ann’s service to the city since 2019, including and especially during the pandemic, and I wish her all the best,” Stephens said Wednesday.

Farrell Harrison joined the city in 2019 after serving as the assistant city manager in Huntington Beach for two years, with a long history of working in city government in Southern California. She earned a $309,000 salary in 2023, according to the city compensation list.

Farrell Harrison did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The council, during the meeting, did not expand on why she was terminated.

Following the vote, Reynolds and Marr spoke at length in praise of Farrell Harrison’s service and said they would have more to say about the decision.

“We’ve sat through some council meetings where I’ve gone home with a lot of questions by the decisions of members on this council,” Reynolds said, “but certainly tonight this is the most questionable decision that I’ve observed, and it gives me a lot of concern.”

Marr said Farrell Harrison was able to recruit and train city staff effectively and kept the city’s finances in check during the pandemic years when other cities turned to sales tax increases to balance their budgets.

“She was an excellent city manager,” Marr said. “In part because she balanced the needs and requests of all seven of us with the needs of the city. … I am embarrassed that this is how we have chosen to treat the woman who so capably led our city for so long.”

Councilmember Manuel Chavez said briefly that “today’s decision was not a light one for me” but offered praise for Farrell Harrison despite his vote to fire her.

Chavez did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

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FBI director says bureau needs more funding than what Trump administration budget proposal calls for

• May 7, 2025

By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel broke with the Trump administration Wednesday over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau, telling lawmakers, “We need more than what has been proposed.”

The 2026 budget proposal released on Friday calls for a funding cut of more than $500 million for the FBI as part of what the White House said was a desire to “reform and streamline” the bureau and reduce “non-law enforcement missions that do not align” with the priorities of President Donald Trump. He warned that such a cut would be harmful for the FBI as it reorients priorities to focus on violent crime.

Asked to specify at a House Appropriations subcommittee which positions would need to be cut if the funding reduction was implemented, Patel replied: “At this time, we have not looked at who to cut. We are focusing our energies on how not to have them cut by coming in here and highlighting to you that we can’t do the mission on those 2011 budget levels.”

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat, pressed Patel for details, saying, “This is your budget. You have to have some idea of what you want to fund or not fund, or where you can cut or not cut, and provide that information” to the Office of Management and Budget.

“That’s the proposed budget — not by the FBI,” Patel replied. “The proposed budget that I put forward is to cover us for for $11.1 billion, which would not have us cut any positions.”

Patel also defended the FBI’s plan to relocate about 1,000 FBI employees from the Washington area to cities around the country, one of the first initiatives he revealed upon being sworn in as director in February.

“Part of the process is not just putting people out sporadically, throwing darts on the map. What we’ve done is we’ve taken a process with the (career employees) at the FBI and said, ‘Where are some of the most violent crime places in America?’” Patel said.

Patel also clashed during one contentious exchange with Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, who served as a House impeachment manager during the second of two impeachment cases against Trump in his first term.

She asserted that the FBI had become “weaponized” under Patel and confronted him over a book he had authored, saying a list of Trump adversaries he included in it amounted to an “enemies list” and was being used by Trump as a “blueprint for revenge.”

Patel replied that he was the one who had been “targeted by a weaponized FBI,” presumably referring to the fact that he was among the people whose records were secretly seized by the Justice Department years earlier as part of media leak investigations when he was a staffer on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence conducting an investigation into Russian election interference.

“You should read the book because there’s no enemies list (in) that book,” Patel continued. “There are people that violated their constitutional obligations and their duties to the American people, and they were rightly called out. And you should give that book to every one of your constituents so they can read” about it.

“I won’t be doing that,” Dean shot back.

“That’s their loss,” Patel said.

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