First on the fox – FBI Director Kash Patel He strongly refuses a CNN report that states that he conducts a “big decrease in” alcohol bureau, tobacco, firearm and explosives (ATF) in the Memorandum employees of ATF, Fox News Digital learned.
On Saturday, CNN reported that Patel “presented plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents on the FBI” and “Cutting ATF agents for more than a third”, according to three unnamed sources.
“This move represents a major decrease in ATF, an agency that has long been to intersect the weapons rights groups that believes that his work violates the rights to another amendment,” ” Cnn said. “ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, which has remained greatly unchanged for years.”
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The director of the FBI Kash Patel called the CNN report -Ao main cuttings of ATF “completely fake” in the Memorandum employed by ATF, Fox News Digital learned. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“After the publication of this story and the resulting return, including Republican allies, the FBI officials began to give up on the aspects of their plan, according to an American official familiar with the issue,” the report said.
Patel, who is currently performing the duties of ATF director, published a letter from the ATF staff who denied the CNN report.
“I want to deal with the report this weekend by speculating on the intentions of the FBI leadership of the staff of the ATF decisions,” Patel started the letter Fox News Digital. “This weekend, CNN reported on the news of our leadership plan to” reduce one -third of “ATF agents reworked 1,000 agents at the FBI. The report even suggested that our leadership team changed the course after reading the news report, and eventually seized certain aspects of change.
“False news will never be responsible for operational management command of ATF, we are,” Patel said. “Brave men and women ATF who bravely dedicate themselves to the protection of the US public will not have their own security campaigns for media disinformation. When we make decisions, they will be final, regardless of CNN’s contribution or any other news organization.”
CNN did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
CNN reported that Patel would reduce the number of ATF agents “by more than a third.” (John Greim/Lightrocket via Getty Images)
Patel examined his difficult attitude against the media in the remarks he presented after sworn as a director of the FBI last month.
“Look, I know the media are here, and if you have a target, the goal is here,” Patel said as he pointed out to himself. “These are not men and women on the FBI.”
“You wrote everything you can about me, it’s false, malicious, defamation and slander. Continue it. Bring it, but leave men and women from the FBI. They deserve better,” said the journalist Patel, expressing the applause of their fans in the room.
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Kash Patel took a difficult attitude against the media in remarks after sworn as a director of the FBI. (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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