Trump's 'wrecking ball' FBI pick is a 'greater danger' than any before him: expert

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has led some commentators to warn that he could weaponize the agency against political opponents the way that J. Edgar Hoover once did.

However, a scholar who won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Hoover believes this comparison is unfair to the longtime FBI director.

In an interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Yale University Professor Beverly Gage said there are troubling signs that Patel could be an...