Patel is a controversial nominee, having long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.
FBI director nominee Kash Patel broke with President Donald Trump over commuting sentences for Jan. 6, 2021 violence against law enforcement.
The Left doesn't like Kash Patel because he helped Trump prove that the FBI and Hillary Clinton were trying to destroy a political opponent.
Patel, a Trump loyalist who has railed against the FBI over its investigations into the president and claimed that Jan. 6 rioters were mistreated by the Justice Department, was picked in November to replace Christopher Wray.
Kash Patel, President Trump's pick to run the FBI, answered questions Thursday in a public hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kash Patel has hawked a sketchy supplement to undo the effects of the COVID vaccine, promoted the QAnon cult and promised to go after Trump’s critics.
A longtime FBI deputy director who had been expected to replace Director Christopher Wray on an acting basis is retiring from the bureau.
But the attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that Donald Trump and JD Vance advanced at their press briefing Thursday—which was nominally in response to the tragic mid-air collision over the Potomac River Wednesday night—is foolish on its own terms.
Testifying in a confirmation hearing, Kash Patel, who is nominated to lead the F.B.I., also sought to allay fears about his fitness to serve.
Top officials have been told to retire or be fired in the coming days, fueling fear within the agency that has been the target of President Trump and Kash Patel, his nominee to be F.B.I. director.
The FBI has recorded a sharp spike in complaints that its own agents and employees have engaged in sexual misconduct, ranging from assault to harassment, despite a pledge by bureau l