1 day ago · Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30 ...

1 day ago · Democrats have called Patel unfit to lead the FBI, pointing to his embrace of false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election and FBI agents fomenting the January 6, 2021 attack, opens new tab ...

15 hours ago · FBI Director-designate Kash Patel advanced in a first procedural vote on the Senate floor Tuesday, with Republicans cheering that President Trump's pick "has the votes" and will be confirmed later ...

Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] was born on February 25, 1980, [4] in Garden City, New York, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. [5] [6] His parents first moved to Canada in the early 1970s from Uganda in East Africa, where they were facing ethnic repression.[5] [7] Subsequently, they moved to the United States and his father started working as a financial officer at an …

5 days ago · Patel has raised alarm for his lack of management experience compared to other FBI directors and because of a vast catalog of incendiary past statements, which include calling investigators who scrutinized Trump “government gangsters” and describing at least some defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S Capitol as “political ...

6 days ago · Kash Patel is an American lawyer and government official who was selected by Pres. Donald Trump to serve as director of the FBI in his second administration. Patel held several posts during Trump’s first term (2017–21). He is especially known for claiming the existence of a ‘deep state’ in the U.S. government.

Dec 1, 2024 · Kash Patel has called for radical changes at the FBI and was a fierce and vocal critic of the bureau’s work as it investigated ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

5 days ago · The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel, putting him one step closer to Senate confirmation—even as the staunch...

Dec 2, 2024 · Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI and an ardent supporter of the president-elect, has vowed to help dismantle the same organization he’s poised to lead.

Jan 30, 2025 · Kash Patel, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump, will inch closer to leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he sits for his US Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.