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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.

Democrats have railed against Patel, taking issue with his rhetoric toward Jan. 6 defendants and saying he could oversee politically motivated firings at the bureau. What's happening today: - Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, will get a final confirmation vote in the Senate today. If confirmed, Patel would serve for a 10-year term following the resignation of FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump appointed in 2017. - While Republicans rallied around Patel and advanced his nomination on a 48-45 party-line vote Tuesday, Democrats have railed against the pick, taking issue with Patel’s rhetoric about Jan. 6...

HERES THE KASH PLAN: At 11:00am, on Thursday, Feb 20th, the Senate will vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Kash Patel for @FBI. (Then, shortened debate for Director-level. Doesn’t require 30 hrs) At 1:45pm ET, we will proceed to a FINAL vote to CONFIRM @Kash_Patel 🇺🇸

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) announced that he will vote to confirm Kash Patel, President Trump’s choice to lead the FBI. Cassidy, the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said on Tuesday that he talked to “multiple people I respect about Kash Patel this weekend—both for and against.” “The ones who worked closely with Kash vouched for him. I will vote for his confirmation,” he wrote Tuesday on X. Patel’s newfound support from the GOP senator comes as the chamber gets ready to vote on his formal confirmation later this week.

Adam Schiff✓@SenAdamSchiff If we confirm Kash Patel, knowing what we are getting, we will only have ourselves to blame.

FBI Director-designate Kash Patel cleared a Senate panel in a party-line vote Thursday, setting up a final confirmation vote as soon as next week. All 12 GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Patel’s confirmation, while all 10 Democrats on the panel opposed it. A former public defender, congressional aide and national security official in the first Trump administration, Long Island native Patel received firm backing from Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for having undergone “rigorous vetting” and being committed to rooting out “political bias” at the FBI.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the pick of President Donald Trump ally Kash Patel to lead the FBI on a party-line vote Thursday, setting up a final confirmation vote on the Senate floor as early as next week. Patel, who served in the first Trump administration and had branded himself a crusader against the “Deep State” and Trump’s enemies in the media, would lead the federal law enforcement agency. The committee voted 12-10 to advance Patel’s nomination to the Senate floor. Democrats remain powerless to block his confirmation without help from Republicans, who have a 53-seat majority. Republicans at the...

A team member for President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, pushed back Wednesday on allegations that Patel played a role in the firings of bureau personnel just hours after swearing not to do so during his confirmation hearing late last month – dismissing accusations from the panel's top Democrat as a politically motivated effort to derail his confirmation. A senior transition team official for Patel refuted the allegations made by the ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, Dick Durbin, that Patel had orchestrated the firings after his confirmation hearing. "I have received highly credible information from multiple sources that...

In what is another massive victory for the administration of President Donald Trump, the FBI has acquiesced and given the names of every agent who was involved with the January 6 investigations to the Department of Justice. The FBI gave the names of the agents via a classified system so that they would not be identified publicly, acting Director Brian Driscoll said in an email which was obtained by FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle. “I want to be clear that as of now, we do not have information indicating the Department of Justice intends to disseminate these lists publicly, and they...

Should Kash Patel secure Senate confirmation to lead the FBI, he will face the daunting task of subordinating a bureau of 13,000 agents with personnel actively begging Congress to intervene against the White House’s agenda and whose agents are suing the administration to block its implementation.When nominating Patel, then-President-elect Donald Trump praised him as the “one guy” who could “make the FBI great again.” Patel’s reputation as a Trump stalwart and vocal critic of the deep state’s career bureaucrats already had FBI agents warning of mass resignations should he enter the post. But now, some seem more inclined to work...

President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel is expected to be approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, putting him one step closer to Senate confirmation, after Patel appeared before the committee last week and faced widespread opposition from Democrats over his alleged ties to Jan. 6 rioters and previous vows to go after his political enemies. Feb. 6, 2025The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote at 10:15 a.m. EST on whether to approve Patel’s nomination, with the committee’s Republican majority broadly expected to back the Trump nominee.

FBI Director nominee Kash Patel would not play along when Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff tried to pull a stunt Thursday during Patel's confirmation hearing. Schiff tried to make hay on a song Patel helped promote called "Justice for All" featuring the J6 Prison Choir, made up of those who had been accused of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, protests.

The FBI is stalling again. The world’s top intelligence agency is still refusing to turn over the Seth Rich records to Attorney Ty Clevenger. Attorney Ty Clevenger is the bulldog attorney who has been working for years to get to the bottom of the Seth Rich murder. His requests continue to be denied by the FBI. Kash Patel cannot be sworn in as FBI Director soon enough! Clevenger previously investigated who supplied the DNC and Podesta emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 election cycle. This was always the key to the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense. No proof was ever offered up...

WASHINGTON — FBI director nominee Kash Patel told lawmakers during his Thursday confirmation hearing that the number of US drug deaths, homicides and rapes should be halved — while brushing off Democratic critics by saying that “ticking off some people” was evidence of a job well done. The Long Island native pledged to “make sure we don’t have 100,000 rapes in this country next year, make sure we don’t have 100,000 drug overdoses from Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin, and make sure we don’t have 17,000 homicides.” Patel, 44, said “those numbers need to be cut in half immediately, and...

Democrat Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) melted down during her line of questioning at the confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of the FBI, as Patel blasted “false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations.” An icy Klobuchar began her line of questioning by offering numerous incomplete quotes, asking Patel time and time again if he made those statements. Patel repeatedly told her he did not have the information in front of him and sometimes pointed out that she was offering what seemed to be partial or incomplete statements. At one point during the line of questioning, Klobuchar expressed...

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday pushed an anonymous smear about Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee Kash Patel just days ahead of his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Durbin, in a letter sent to Trump administration officials dated January 27, 2025, said he received “highly credible information” that Patel “broke protocol” regarding hostage rescues when he commented to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) “without authorization” about a successful hostage rescue during the first Trump administration in October 2020. […] Durbin said his office received allegations that “Mr. Patel inserted himself inappropriately in a hostage recovery mission and violated these...

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...

Jack Smith’s top hatchet man, Jay Bratt, abruptly resigned from the Justice Department last week, according to Deep State reporter and fake Trump-Russia dossier peddler Michael Isikoff. Jay Bratt was one of the main prosecutors who spearheaded the Mar-a-Lago raid, he threatened a lawyer defending Trump’s valet driver and admitted the DOJ tampered with evidence. Via Michael Isikoff for SpyTalk: A top Justice Department national security prosecutor has become an early casualty of the incoming Trump administration, abruptly resigning from the department last week before incoming appointees can retaliate against him for his key role in special counsel Jack Smith’s...

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans shows Kash Patel “should not be confirmed” as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI. Schiff told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the terrorist attack “underscores” why it’s important to have an FBI director “that has experience, has judgment, that has character, that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans or the violence we saw on Jan. 6.” Schiff added that the Senate should not confirm “someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in Deep...