The FBI Director Just Went Snorkeling Over a War Grave

David Shuster on Kash Patel's VIP tour of the USS Arizona—the sunken battleship where 900 Americans died at Pearl Harbor, where oil from the wreckage is still called "the black tears of the dead."

By David Shuster

There are some Trump cabinet secretaries who dishonor government service by their venality, others by cowardice, and still others by simple stupidity. Kash Patel has managed to achieve all three distinctions simultaneously and with the confidence of a lunatic cannonballing into the shallow end of history.

In the old days of U.S. Presiden…