17 entries in the ledger
Nine fired FBI employees, including agents and analysts with counterintelligence experience, sued FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche, the FBI and the Justice Department on Oct. 15. The suit says they...
At a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel defended guidance the bureau quietly issued last spring that lifted a categorical hiring bar for applicants with a history of prostitution, and...
U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang on Monday, Aug. 17, blocked the Trump administration from relocating FBI headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ruling the decision was “not in accordance with...
FBI statistics released Aug. 14 showed violent crime fell 9.3 percent from 2024 and the murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate fell 18.1 percent, the largest year-to-year decreases since the bureau began its estimates...
The White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to oversee a leak investigation into New York Times reporting about security gaps in the Qatari-donated Air Force One, according to people with knowledge of the matter...
Senator Mark Warner, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel on July 9, 2026, objecting to what he described as the designation of...
On July 9, 2026, Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, announced a bicameral investigation into FBI Director Kash Patel's use of bureau aircraft and...
The Associated Press reported on May 15 that government emails showed FBI Director Kash Patel took what Navy correspondence called a "VIP snorkel" around the wreck of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor during an official...
FBI Director Kash Patel appeared before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on May 12 and clashed with Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland over reports about his conduct. Van Hollen said accounts indicated Patel had...
On April 20, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a $250 million defamation suit against The Atlantic in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, suing as a private citizen and Nevada resident. The complaint...