WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel was not part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans, but that didn’t spare him from being questioned by lawmakers this week about whether the nation’s premier law enforcement agency would investigate. Patel made no such commitments during the […]
U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia have started to target the northern U.S. border with Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday. During testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Patel told lawmakers that the “effective resolution” to the crisis at the southern border has caused adversaries such as China, Russia and […]
WASHINGTON (Diya TV) — FBI Director Kash Patel rejected a CNN story that claims plans to sharply cut the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) staff by transferring agents to the FBI. In a memo to ATF employees, Patel characterized the report as “entirely false.” CNN said that Patel, also acting director of […]
(NewsNation) — Top Trump intelligence officials at a House committee hearing about global security on Wednesday denied sharing classified information in a Signal group chat. This hearing comes one day after the committee’s Senate equivalent grilled the leaders over the group chat leak. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director […]
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, seeking documents related to the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians. Mere months after calling for a new Church Committee to investigate abuses by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), Senator Hawley is now asking the new administration to turn over the details of religious targeting by the Biden DOJ and Federal Bureau of […]
n his first television interview since being sworn in as FBI Director, Kash Patel didn’t mince words. Appearing on Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy, Patel laid out a bold, America-first vision for restoring the FBI to its core mission—serving We the People—after years of political weaponization, bureaucratic rot, and deep-state corruption. Patel told Gowdy that he […]
In years past, the move by senior members of President Trump’s administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app would have represented a serious breach that would have likely prompted investigations by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department’s national security division. Yet so far, neither the attorney general, Pam Bondi, nor the F.B.I. […]
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