Name says it all.
If you haven't followed him or checked out his book Government Gangsters, you're missing out. I would consider him the "nuclear option" for the pick. He has basically called the entire leadership of our national intelligence organizations criminals for the past 8 years.
All in all, despite a couple of "WTF?s", I'm pretty damn happy with the cabinet nominations so far. These are very much "we are not fucking around any more" selections.
Now if only we get Dan Bongino as head of the Secret Service.... He's also been completely out of fucks to give for the last several years.
Litmus test for Patel will be if he sorts out wtf was going on with the Geatz "investigation." See Gizortnik's thread from ealier.
I have confidence that that would be the case.