President-elect Donald Trump has stated that he intends to nominate Kash Patel, the right-wing commentator and former intelligence official, to be the next director of the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI). If confirmed, Patel will lead the nation’s chief criminal investigation agency, as well as its substantial surveillance apparatus.
Trump's FBI Director pick was a key focus of Pam Bondi's Wednesday hearing, sparking claims the party is nervous about his confirmation.
While some Republicans have hailed the pick, Donald Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has raised alarm among many national security veterans.
Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked a suite of agencies that previously employed Kash Patel to turn over information on possible misconduct of
Democrats directed some of their energy during attorney general nominee Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing toward publicly disavowing Kash Patel.
Patel, who has been named FBI director, included a list of the government’s supposed “enemies” in his 2023 book.
Several senators questioned Pam Bondi at her confirmation hearing Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI.
In a passionate speech following the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Kash Patel, Trump's nominee for FBI Director,
Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi, Florida's former attorney general, whether she supported Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, who has assembled what he calls a list of “Members of the Executive Branch Deep State" that should be prosecuted.
Multiple Democratic senators have been pressing Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi on fellow Trump nominee Kash Patel.
Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, vowed that there would "never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice" during her tenure.
Pam Bondi was pressed about the 2020 election and Trump's influence over the Justice Department, while Marco Rubio struck a more measured tone on the Russia-Ukraine war.