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A Trump ally's notes visible as he visited the West Wing on Friday revealed a suggestion to replace the current CIA director with the current acting chief of staff at the Pentagon
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Patel, who has held a number of senior jobs in the administration, was named chief of staff to Miller a few days after the general election and is widely viewed as a Trump loyalist.
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Trump has been on the verge of firing CIA Director Gina Haspel several times only to be pulled back from the brink,
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Miller was named to the top defense job a few days after the election. He and Patel had worked together on counterterrorism issues at the National Security Council earlier in Trump's term.
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If the idea is truly being considered still with just days to go in Trump's term, trying to put Patel in charge of the country's preeminent intelligence service would require an enormous amount of last-minute bureaucratic gymnastics.
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Haspel has angered some people in Trump's orbit for stonewalling efforts by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to declassify documents related to the FBI's Russia investigation.
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Frankly, he's running out of people who'd even know how to implement those changes. There's no one to do the paperwork, which is pretty complicated for unorthodox personnel moves."
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The CIA, the Pentagon, the White House and the National Security Council also did not immediately respond to CNN's inquires.