Tag: F.B.I
Senate Confirms Patel as Next F.B.I. Director
The vote puts Kash Patel in charge of the country’s premier law enforcement agency.
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Hiring Freeze Creates Confusion and Concern at F.B.I.
President Trump’s directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in [...]
Trump’s F.B.I. Pick Sees ‘Deep State’ Plotters in Government, and Some Good in QAnon
Kash Patel’s public praise of the QAnon conspiracy theory suggests he sees its adherents more as an audience to be courted rather than an ideology to [...]
F.B.I. Pick Pushed False and Misleading Claims About Trump Investigations
Kash Patel, Donald J. Trump’s choice to run the bureau, has made a series of spurious assertions about the Russia, Jan. 6 and classified documents inq [...]
Senate Questionnaire Sheds Light on F.B.I. Pick’s Early Years
In the form, Kash Patel said he had participated in an American Bar Association program that promotes diversity. He also played down his role in the B [...]
Paul Abbate Resigns as F.B.I. Acting Director After Wray Departs
A veteran of the bureau, Mr. Abbate has served as deputy director since early 2021 and takes the helm from Christopher A. Wray as the agency faces an [...]
F.B.I. Briefs Top Senators on Armed Services Panel About Hegseth
The committee’s Republican chairman and its top Democrat were briefed on F.B.I. findings into Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick. Dem [...]
F.B.I. Offers New Details on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect, Seeking Tips
Four years later, the largest lingering mystery of the Capitol riot remains unsolved.
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Patel’s Warm Senate Welcome Reflects the G.O.P.’s Turn Against the F.B.I.
Senate Republicans have largely embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to run the bureau, demonstrating that his anti-F.B.I. stance is now pa [...]
F.B.I. Didn’t Instruct Informants to Encourage Violence at Capitol, Report Says
The review acknowledged that several informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, but said that only a handful were collecting information for the F.B.I. [...]
Christopher Wray Says He’ll Step Down as F.B.I. Director
President-elect Donald J. Trump had already signaled his intention to replace Mr. Wray with a longtime loyalist, Kash Patel.
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Why Trump Soured on F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray
By the time Donald J. Trump left the White House, he was eager to fire Mr. Wray, but he held back. His antipathy only heightened in the years after hi [...]
What Did Kash Patel, Trump’s F.B.I. Pick, Do at Truth Social?
Mr. Patel was directly involved in building a case that two co-founders of Trump Media & Technology mismanaged the debut of Truth Social in 2022. [...]
How Kash Patel, Trump’s F.B.I. Pick, Plans to Reshape the Bureau
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A wave of racist texts after the election prompts the scrutiny of the F.B.I.
Offensive messages were reported across the South, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and as far west as Texas.
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