Tag: Kash Patel
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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...
In November 2025, reporting revealed that FBI Director Kash Patel's girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, has been protected by an FBI security detail drawn from agents typically assigned to SWAT duties in the...
Through late 2025, reporting found that FBI Director Kash Patel repeatedly used the FBI's government jet for travel coinciding with personal events, including a trip to watch his girlfriend, singer Alexis Wilkins...
On January 28, 2025, Trump Media & Technology Group awarded roughly $800,000 in restricted stock to Kash Patel, Trump's nominee for FBI director, along with grants to Donald Trump Jr. and Linda McMahon as company...
In February 2025, the Washington Post reported that FBI director nominee Kash Patel had been paid $25,000 by Global Tree Pictures, a company owned by Igor Lopatonok, a Russian-American filmmaker whose past projects...
Around the time of his Senate confirmation hearing in early February 2025, it emerged that FBI director nominee Kash Patel had worked as a paid consultant for the Embassy of Qatar through his firm, Trishul LLC, until...