Senate He voted to improve the certificate of candidate for the director of the FBI KASH Patel on Thursday.
The voting for calling for clatotura and the beginning of 30 hours of debate about the candidate has passed 51 to 47.
The members of the Senate Committee on the judiciary voted earlier this month, 12 to 10, to improve the patel on the full floor to vote.
Still, Patel faced a somewhat rocker path to confirmation, even in the Republican majority chamber, after the Democrats took advantage of their political weight on the panel to delay Patel’s vote on certificate earlier this month.
Trump FBI Director Candidate Kash Patel takes the support of a key GOP Senator
Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be the director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee on his certificate hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The top judicial democrat Dick Durbin claimed on the floor of the Senate that Patel stood behind the recent mass shootings on the FBI, citing what he described as “very credible” reports of whippeders in which the patel personally directed the permanent cleaning of FBI employees before his receipts.
But it was sharply rejected by the Republicans, who described the accusations as an unfounded and politically motivated attempt to delay Patel’s confirmation, and described Patel’s assistant, who described Durbin’s request as categorically false.
This person for Fox News Digital said Patel flew home to Las Vegas after a certificate hearing and “sat there waiting for the process to be played.”
Patel, a loud opponent of the President’s investigation Donald Trump and The one who served at the head of Trump’s 2020 fraud requests, promised during his hearing to confirm last month that he would not participate in political retaliation against agents who worked on the case of classified documents against Trump and other politically sensitive things.
But his confirmation comes at a time when FBI activities are carefully tested for signs of politicization or retaliation.
Main lawyer Pam Bondi (left) and President Donald Trump promised to reform the FBI and end the political “weapon” of law enforcement. (Getty Images | East)
Thousands of agents of the FBI -A superiors have been ordered to fulfill the questionnaire, which described their roles in detail in the 6th of January, which prompted concern for retaliation or retaliation.
Group FBI agents This month, he filed a lawsuit for an emergency lawsuit that sought to block the public identification of all agents who worked on the 6 January investigations, in an attempt to remove in what they described as potential retaliation of the efforts against the staff involved.
“There will be no politicization on the FBI,” Patel told MPs during his certificate hearing. “There will be no retaliation.”
But giving good that promise could be shown complicated.
Trump told reporters this month that he intended to release “some” FBI staff involved in the riot Capitol 6 January 2021, characterizing agents’ actions as “corrupt”, even when he stopped providing all the additional details on how he came up to that conclusion.
“We had some corrupt agents,” Trump told reporters, adding that “these people are gone, or they will leave – and it will be fast, and very surgical.”
The White House did not answer the questions about how it came to that conclusion or how much staff could influence, although the federal judge in DC agreed to consider the lawsuit.
4 of the greatest conflicts between Patel, the Dems Senate at his hearing
And in the second message that was supposed to mitigate the senators, Patel said that he could not require a warrant for intelligence agencies to investigate US nationals suspected of being involved in national security issues, calling for questions Section 702.
“Having a request for an order to go through this real -time information simply does not coincide with a request to protect US citizens,” Patel said. “It is almost impossible to perform this function and serve a national, harmless mission.”
Patel faced steep democratic opposition throughout the certificate. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
“Get the order” has become a gathering cry of right -wing conservatives who are concerned about the privacy of American citizens and have almost completely demolished the re -confirmation of the surveillance program. Patel said the program was abused, but that he did not support investigators to go to court and to blame their case before they can eavesdrop any American citizen.
Patel has held numerous roles of national security during Trump’s first administration – Head of Staff in Vivor Defense Minister Chris Miller, a senior advisor to the acting director of the National Intelligence and National Security Council.
Worked as an older assistant on counter -treatment For the former president of Devin Nunes intelligence, where he struggled to declare records he claimed to show the FBI’s request for supervision for 2016, the Assistant Trump’s Campaign Carter Page was illegitimate and was a national security prosecutor at the Ministry judiciary.
Trump called the patella a real man to clean the FBI. (AP/East)
In public comments, Patel suggested that he would divert the FBI to the implementation of the law and far from participating in any prosecution decisions.
In the recent Wall Street Journal magazine, he suggested that his two first priorities were “releasing good police officers” and transparency, which he described as “important”.
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“If it is confirmed, I will focus on simplifying operations at the headquarters, at the same time strengthening the presence of field agents across the nation,” he wrote. “Cooperation with local law enforcement is crucial to fulfilling the FBI mission.”
Patel continued: “Congress members have hundreds of unanswered demands of the FBI. If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate of congress supervision, ensuring that the FBI operates with the openness needed to renew the trust by simple response to the legislations.”
