Posted on 07/21/2026 9:56:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation.
It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America’s top adversaries. The plans come as Washington and Moscow continue to be at odds over the war in Ukraine, with U.S. lawmakers demanding the imposition of heavy new sanctions on Russia.
Patel has a history of involvement in controversial Russia-related matters dating to President Donald Trump’s first term, including trying to cast doubt on investigations into whether Trump colluded with Russia to help him win the 2016 election — an episode he now calls the “Russiagate hoax.” Patel also is developing a track record of taking eye-catching trips in his role atop the FBI, drawing scrutiny from Congress.
According to the U.S. official familiar with the travel plans, Patel is scheduled to visit Russia on Oct. 14-15, first stopping in Moscow and then St. Petersburg. His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB, the official said.
The person familiar with the situation confirmed that Patel is planning to visit Russia in the fall, including stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Both people were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive travel plans.
It’s not clear if Patel will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin or any of his senior political aides. Also unclear is what is on his agenda for discussion.
As with any such plans by U.S. officials, they are tentative and subject to change.
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Stay away from high windows, Cash.
He’s graduating to guzzling vodka.
The FBI interviewed Tsarnaev and family members, and then dropped the case, and ended surveillance of his radical mosque.
The Russians warned the FBI again late in 2011, and a third time in 2012 after Tsarnaev traveled to and from Chechnya.
Mueller refused the Boston Field Office's request to restore surveillance.
On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his brother murdered 5 people at and after the Moston Marathon, and injured 297, including multiple people who required amputations.
Robert Mueller should have been sent to prison.
Keg Stand Kash is going to meet with the Rooskies.
With all of the questions regarding directed energy weapons, I would not want to be anywhere in Russia - particularly as a high value political target.
I see a lot of trips, but few meaningful arrests back home.
Is Kash taking his girlfriend on this little junket?
She is a country music sensation!
I KNEW IT - Patel is a Putin stooge, just putting on Blackface to look like an indian. Nice try, Cash, but we get your number!
It’s KASH, not CASH.
How hard is it to correctly spell the name of a person who’s been in the public eye for years?
It’s KASH, not CASH.
How hard is it to correctly spell the name of a person who’s been in the public eye for years?
Kash is 10 times better for Trump than Wray ever was.
Uh oh. Hide the vodka.. /s
I’m so thankful I haven’t been brainwashed by liberal media like you and the other Kash haters on this thread. I will forever be grateful to Kash Patel and Devin Nunes for uncovering the Russiagate operation. Without both of them we probably would not have Donald Trump as President today.
“Robert Mueller should have been sent to prison.”
He should have. Americans paid with their lives.
“Kash is 10 times better for Trump than Wray ever was.”
Absolutely. I have zero issues with Patel.
Yeah okay. I don’t need the media to know he’s a bum. He talked all kinds of tough guy BS about firing the FBI then proceeded to promote some of the worst J6 offenders, until Laura Loomer called him out. Then he got around to firing a few. So go choke on your own passive aggressive puke.
Passive-agressive? Sorry to put you on the defensive, I guess. I’m just happy to have a productive FBI under Kash and I also hate how liberal media tries to destroy good people...and how gullible some people are...sigh
Grok:
“2011 Waltham Triple Homicide: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was linked to the brutal September 11, 2011, murders of three men—Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken—whose throats were slit in an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts. That unsolved crime occurred 18 months BEFORE the bombing.”
I recall they were all low-level Marijuana dealers.
Hmm. The name Tamerlan rings a bell. Why did the US allow them in?
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