The Senate judiciary committee should vote on Thursday about whether to improve Nomination of Kasha Patel for the director of the FBI on the floor of the Senate after a fire hearing for a certificate last month.
The vote is scheduled for 9:00 et. If Patel passes through the committee, his nomination will be ready to vote in Senate.
Last week, Democrats successfully postponed the vote of the Patel Committee in an effort to force Trump’s candidate to testify for the second time.
Senator Charles Grassley, R-iowa, said that attempts to a member of Senator Dick Durbina, D-Isljan, and others to force Patel to testify to “unfounded” because he had already sat before the Committee for more than five hours and discovered ” Thousands of pages “records on the board, as well as nearly 150 pages of answers to the written questions of the legislators.
Kash Patel appears before the Senate Committee on the judiciary at the Capitol Certificate Hearing, January 30, 2025. (AP)
This week on the floor of the Senate, Durbin claimed that Patel was lagging behind a mass shooting on the FBI. Durbin said he saw “extremely credible” reports of whistleblowers stating that Patel “personally directed the current cleaning of the FBI employee before the certificate of role.”
The assistant patela denied Durbin’s claim, saying Fox News Digital that he had driven 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 who was at the helm of his 2020 fraud claims, he promised during a certificate hearing that he would not participate in political retaliation.
However, a conservative fiery brand was probably chosen for his desire to increase the agency.
In his book 2023. “The Government Gangsteri” described FBI as “a tool of supervision and suppression of American citizens” and “one of the craziest and most powerful weapons of the deep state.”
Patel said that intelligence officials were “intention” to undermine the president, but promised that he would not go as agents who worked on the case of classified documents against Trump.
4 of the greatest conflicts between Patel, the Dems Senate at his hearing
If Patel passes through the committee, his nomination will be ready to vote in Senate. (AP)
“There will be no politicization on the FBI,” Patel said. “There will be no retaliation.”
In addition, in another message that was supposed to alleviate the concern of the senator, Patel said that he could not require an intelligence agency order to investigate US nationals suspected of being involved in national security issues, referring to this 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.”
“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 misused, but that he did not support investigators to go to court and pray their case before they could eavesdrop any American citizen.
Patel seemed to break with Trump during hearing on pardons approved 1,600 People who were prosecuted for their involvement in the riot of the Capitol on January 6, especially about those who were involved in violence and punished the penalties.
Kash Patel performed the duty of the staff chief of the acting defense during the first administration of President Donald Trump. (White house)
“I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement,” Patel said. “I disagree with the mole of any punishment of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.”
Patel has held numerous roles of national security during Trump’s first administration – the head of the staff in the acting of Defense Minister Chris Miller, a senior adviser to the acting director of the National Intelligence and National Security Council.
Worked as a Older Assistant In Contrarory 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.
Patel public comments suggest that they will divert the FBI to the implementation of the law and far from participating in any prosecutorial decision.
Kash Patel promised to bring the FBI back to his mission for law enforcement. (FBI)
In the recent Wall Street Journal magazine, he suggested that his two first priorities “have good police officers be police officers” and “transparency is important.”
“If it is confirmed, I will focus on simplifying operations at the headquarters, at the same time strengthening the presence of field agents throughout the country. Cooperation with local police implementation is crucial to fulfilling the FBI mission,” he said.
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Patel continued: “Congress members have hundreds of unanswered demands of the FBI. If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate of congress surveillance, ensuring that the FBI operates with the openness necessary to renew trust by simple response to the legislations.”
Fox News’ Breanne Depisch contributed to this report.
