Kash PatelTrump’s candidate to lead the FBI, tore “false accusations and errors of grotesque characterizations” of the Democrats of the Senate’s Judicial Committee during his confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Patel, a former public defender and responsible for the DoJ, was burned by senator Amy Klobuchar, D-minn., Who accused the Patel of having called the FBI seat of closing. This came to the back of a certain number of beards from democrats on the committee.
Patel retaliated with an ardent response.
Sparks expected to fly to Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing to lead the FBI
Kash Patel, the choice of President Donald Trump to be director of the FBI, seems to be before the Senate’s judicial committee for his confirmation audience, at the Capitole in Washington, Thursday, January 30, 2025.
“If the best attacks on me will be false accusations and grotesque errors, the only thing this body is doing is to overcome the credibility of FBI men and women,” he said.
“I was standing with them here in this country, in all the war theater that we have. I was on the ground at the service of this nation. And any accusation was raised against me that I would somehow put political prejudices Before the Constitution is unjust groted “,” he said.
He then underlined an approval of more than 300,000 law enforcement agents as the next office chief.
“Let’s ask them,” he said.
The Democrats had underlined the patel file and a book, “Government of the Gangsters”, published in 2023 which claimed that the employees of the government “of the deep state” politicized and armed the law enforcement agency – and explicitly called to the FBI overhaul in a chapter nicknamed “FBI revision.”
President -elected Donald Trump appointed the longtime ally Kashyap “Kash” Patel, which was a frequent and severe critic of the FBI, to serve as the next office director in the new administration. (Reuters)
“Things are bad. He is undeniable,” He wrote in the book. “The FBI has seriously abused its power, threatening not only the rule of law, but the very foundations of government autonomy at the origin of our democracy. But it is not the end of history. change is possible at the FBI and desperately necessary.
Patel received praise from the Republicans on the Committee, President Chuck Grassley arguing that he could help restore confidence in the FBI.
“Public confidence in the FBI is weak,” said Grassley in his opening remarks. “Only 41% of the American public thinks that the FBI is doing a good job. It is the lowest note of a century.”
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Ri, has however cited several republican characters who have Opposed to the appointment of the patelIncluding the former national security advisor, John Bolton, who, according to him, had claimed to have been “forced to hire him”.
“The former director of the CIA, Gina Haspel, would have threatened to resign rather than have this candidate serve under her,” said Whitehouse.
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“The former prosecutor General Bill Barr said that this candidate had practically no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the World Application Agency, End quote.”
Patel then accused Whitehouse of using “partial quotes” in additional criticisms concerning the alleged intentions of “pursuing journalists” and his “list of enemies” – a term patel said that he does not approve.
Charles Creitz and Emma Colton by Fox News contributed to this report.
