The Latest Breaking News from Kash Patel

FBI Director Kash Patel decided to fire a trainee after the agent displayed a gay Pride flag on his desk. His decision followed a series of high-profile terminations in September.

Maine officials launch investigation into mystery delivery, which arrived days before mail-in voting opens in state referendum on election reform

Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and revelations that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had abused his power to persecute people and organizations he viewed as political enemies – destroyed what formerly had been near-automatic trust in the…

The dismissal is part of a broader pattern of firings under Patel's leadership. In September, over a dozen FBI agents were dismissed for taking a knee during racial justice protests in Washington, D.C., in 2020.

Patel allegedly referred to the flag as an ‘inappropriate display of political signage’

The FBI had an intelligence-sharing and training partnership with the group, which campaigns to fight antisemitism, but now Patel has pulled the plug on the arrangement

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At a press conference announcing that the suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk had been detained, FBI director Kash Patel ended his speech with a personal message to his “brother”, saying: “We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla.”

FBI Director Kash Patel gifted New Zealand officials illegal firearms during his visit to the country earlier this year, authorities said Wednesday.

FBI Director Kash Patel called on the U.S. to ‘treat the drug cartels like the al-Qaeda of the world’

The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.