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Newly declassified documents show informant Stefan Halper was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" and was paid nearly $1.2 million from FBI over three decades. ********************************************************************** Akey FBI informant in the widely-debunked Russia collusion case was paid nearly $1.2 million over three decades, was motivated in part by "monetary compensation," and continued snitching even after agents concluded he told them an inaccurate story about future Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, newly declassified documents show. The nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents, obtained by Just the News, were recently turned over by FBI Director Kash Patel to House Judiciary Committee...

Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents.. This is part of the new FBI’s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people. Justice will be done. Thanks to our partners @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept and our @FBIDetroit team for their work.

Charlie Kirk✓@charliekirk11 There’s a very obvious reason why Adam Schiff is panicking outside the FBI building this morning… Kash Patel: “Adam Schiff is the worst criminal in Congress in the last 250 years.”

VIDEOThe very very gloomy reactions by the Bluesky Bolsheviks to the confirmation of Kash Patel as Director of the FBI are so far gone as to make it seem like they have reached the End Of Times. In a way they are right because Kash Patel knows exactly where to look for the bodies which makes it the End Of Times for the Liberal Era in which widespread political corruption was blatant.

Kash Patel was confirmed as FBI Director 51-49. All Republicans voted in favor except for Murkowski and Collins and all Democrats were against.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be FBI director. The final vote was 51-49. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against Patel. Democrats were unanimous in their opposition. Despite his controversial nomination, Republicans rallied around Patel, arguing he is the right person to bring reform to the nation's top law

The US Senate has confirmed Kash Patel as the FBI director, with lawmakers voting 51-49 in favour Trump's controversial choice to run the nation's top law enforcement agency has previously been a fierce critic of the FBI

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she would vote against the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as the FBI director, citing a string of political comments that call into question his ability to apolitically lead the bureau. Collins noted recent actions at the Justice Department and FBI, from prosecutors resigning after facing pressure on how to handle certain cases to FBI agents facing firing over their work on Jan. 6 cases.

He is perhaps the most dangerous of all the Trump nominees. He shamelessly wants to turn the agency into Trump's loyalty police. I'm going to Senate floor at 4pm to raise the alarm for my Republican colleagues.

WASHINGTON — FBI Director-designate Kash Patel advanced Tuesday in a first procedural vote on the Senate floor Tuesday, with Republicans cheering that President Trump’s pick “has the votes” and will be confirmed later this week. The Senate voted 48-45 along party lines to open debate on the nominee, starting the countdown for 30 hours of discussion before Patel is expected to receive final approval Thursday, sources close to the confirmation process tell The Post.

A federal whistleblower has come forward with allegations that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was involved in the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whistleblower, identified as Hadassah Feinberg, a former Pennsylvania State Police employee, filed a criminal complaint on February 7, 2025, detailing claims that Shapiro conspired with other officials to orchestrate the attack as part of a political scheme. ... According to the complaint, President Joe Biden made frequent visits to Shapiro in the weeks leading up to the Trump rally to discuss what was described as an “obstacle” faced by...

FBI leaders going full “we were just following orders” as accountability for turning the agency into a full-time Anti-Trump operation looms. ... Julie Kelly. = Expecting a bloodbath at FBI today and tomorrow. My guess is acting FBI director Brian Driscoll will be gone by this evening for defying a direct order seeking names of FBI employees—perhaps more than 6,000—involved in Jan 6 cases. Hard to see how James Dennehy, who runs the NY field office, keeps his job after sending defiant email to colleagues over the weekend promising to “dig in” and not step down or follow orders. The...

Squads of FBI agents were escorted out of field offices in New York, Miami and Washington. Agents who were escorted from the Miami office were involved in the Mar-a-Lago documents case ... Everyone involved in that raid knew it was wrong ... We were just following orders ... Fire Driscoll immediately. File charges against him and prosecute him in the Miami courts. The next one will comply. Play by their rules. They set the precedent. ... If Mr Driscoll felt so strongly about not complying with a lawful command, he should have resigned his post. Instead, his “team” drove him...

Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll is on shaky ground with Department of Justice leaders for refusing to deliver the names of bureau employees involved in Jan. 6 cases and other Trump investigations. President Trump tapped Mr. Driscoll, an FBI veteran, to lead the bureau temporarily while his nominee for director, Kash Patel, goes through the Senate confirmation process. But questions remain over whether Mr. Driscoll can stay in the job before Mr. Patel is confirmed and sworn in. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove on Friday ordered Mr. Driscoll to compile a list of all current and former FBI employees...

The FBI has closed its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office ... The decision follows growing criticism from Republican lawmakers. Earlier this month, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, condemning what she described as “radical” DEI initiatives that she argued had “endangered” Americans, citing the New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans as an example. "While the facts surrounding this unconscionable attack continue to emerge, what we know is deeply troubling: the suspect was in possession of weapons, improvised explosive devices, and an ISIS flag. This horrific incident constitutes a blatant act of...

FBI Director Chris Wray gave a farewell speech today. It was bland and delusional, of course, but this line is a worry: “I’ve had the privilege of personally handing badges and credentials to over 5,700 new agents—more than 40% of those on the job today. ... Wray weaponized the FBI for political purposes. He sent the FBI to raid Mar a Lago with guns, authorizing the use of deadly force against a former and future President. He went after Catholics & PTA moms and targeted parents who protested at School Board meetings, then went to Congress and lied about all...

Tell me the FBI needs Kash Patel without saying that the FBI needs Kash Patel. More than two years after filing a FOIA demand on the FBI for documents related to the Russia-collusion hoax, the bureau finally produced a six-page document detailing their probable cause for investigating Donald Trump. However, most of the document remains redacted, which means that we still don't know why Andrew McCabe made Trump a target after firing James Comey. Real Clear Investigations' Aaron Maté reports that the FBI wants to keep its "articulable factual basis" for probing whether Trump was a Russian agent under wraps:As...

VIDEOYes, they have good reason to be terrified of Kash Patel. Not because he will go after innocent people but because he understands in detail the many many abuses by the FBI and he knows how to uncover the secrets they want to keep hidden as well as the perpetrators of the many abuses. That is why Kash Patel so completely TERRIFIES them.

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on Thursday said Kash Patel will be confirmed. “People I trust speak well of him, and I’m looking forward to meeting with him,” Cornyn said on the Hugh Hewitt show.

VIDEOIt is no mystery as to why FBI Director Christopher Wray is being fired and replaced by Kash Patel. Wray's own testimony before the Senate and House provides damning evidence why his firing is necessary. Listen to Wray reveal over and over again his evasions, obfuscations, deceitfulness and outright lies which more than justify his firing. No wonder Wray HATED testifying on Capitol Hill to the extent that he lied about needing to cut short a Senate hearing in order to go on a "business" trip when he was really traveling off to a vacation on his FBI jet.