"I'm not going anywhere," says Patel, who appeared a bit jittery in this opening statement.

Patel called our story about his firing of two highly-regarded field FBI agents without an investigation "one sided." The bureau was given a detailed list of questions a day in advance of publication and has yet to respond. Patel decline to discuss "personnel" matters at SJC.

When pressed on reports/evidence that the FBI asked political questions to applicants -- and that he fired agents on the orders of the White House -- Patel has offered one or both of these answers: 1) I never heard about it 2) It's false, disgraceful, etc.

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Kash Patel on Jeffrey Epstein -- and whether the FBI is hiding a secret trafficking list: There is "no credible information that he trafficked to other individuals..." Says he's read most of the files but not all.

Patel dodges arguably the most important question of the hearing (from Blumenthal): Did the W.H. order political firings -- as alleged by senior FBI leaders in a lawsuit? Won't comment on pending lawsuits, says he makes all final decisions -- starts shouting...

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt is using the Patel is shouting that he knows what "drove a killer to plan and carry out a murder on the most prominent conservative activist" -- leftists. Calls that violence is coming from both sides is "bullshit."

This platform is why!

Patel refuses to provide basic data to Dem senators. When Hirono asks a fundamental question: How many agents have left the FBI since he took over (circa 5,000) he berates her, shouts over her questions.

Josh is proud of this one

I don’t care go away

NEW: Kash Patel embraced Trump’s attack-the-attacker style with bellowing brio during four high-volume, low-info hours on the Hill on Tuesday. He wasn't there to answer questions. He was there to brawl. And show off for the boss. Me and Alan Feuer nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/…

I don't care anymore

Don’t care!

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A defining characteristics of Trump II has been to take actions that have never been taken -- or even publicly contemplated -- then casting them as routine, commonsensical or supported by tradition.

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REMINDER: A Fox host on a Trump-allied morning show recently said that mentally ill people should be killed with lethal injections. He offered a brief apology for making a "callous" remark, and was not suspended. nytimes.com/2025/09/15/bus…

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