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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director Kash Patel vowed to rebuild spot by creating a "transparent, accountable" bureau that is "committed to justice," portion informing those who "seek to harm Americans" that the bureau volition "hunt you down successful each country of this planet."
Patel was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Thursday arsenic the ninth ever FBI director, succeeding Christopher Wray.
"I americium honored to beryllium confirmed arsenic the ninth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Patel told Fox News Digital, thanking President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi for their "unwavering assurance and support."
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"The FBI has a storied bequest — from the ‘G-Men’ to safeguarding our federation successful the aftermath of 9/11," Patel said. "The American radical merit an FBI that is transparent, accountable, and committed to justice."
"The politicization of our justness strategy has eroded nationalist spot — but that ends today," helium added.
Patel told Fox News Digital that his "mission" arsenic FBI manager "is clear."
"Let bully cops beryllium cops," helium said. "And rebuild spot successful the FBI."
"Working alongside the dedicated men and women of the bureau and our partners, we volition rebuild an FBI the American radical tin beryllium arrogant of," Patel said.
And Patel issued a stark warning.
"To those who question to harm Americans — see this your warning," Patel said. "We volition hunt you down successful each country of this planet."
He added: "Mission First. America Always. Let’s get to work."
Patel has an extended inheritance successful nationalist information and intelligence, with acquisition ranging from personally carrying retired unsafe missions successful the Middle East successful an effort to bring location U.S. hostages to implementing counterterrorism strategies against America’s most-wanted terrorists.
Current and erstwhile U.S. nationalist information officials and lawmakers told Fox News Digital that he, "objectively," is "one of the astir experienced radical ever to beryllium nominated" to pb the bureau.
During the archetypal Trump administration, Patel served arsenic a lawman adjunct to Trump and arsenic elder manager for counterterrorism. In that role, Patel was progressive successful statesmanlike missions aimed astatine decimating al Qaeda elder enactment and ISIS bid and control. Patel was progressive successful the readying of the ngo to instrumentality retired Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, among others.
Patel besides was progressive successful efforts to bring immoderate of the most-wanted terrorists to the U.S. for prosecution, and worked connected Trump medication efforts to instrumentality dozens of U.S. hostages backmost home.
Beyond his counterterrorism work, Patel was heavy progressive successful U.S. strategy to antagonistic Chinese, Russian, Iranian and North Korean efforts against U.S. interests. He besides worked connected the implementation of multimillion dollar sanctions against overseas adversaries.
Prior to moving arsenic a lawman to Trump and successful the National Security Council, Patel worked successful the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) arsenic the main lawman to the acting DNI Ric Grenell and helped erstwhile Director John Ratcliffe modulation into the role. Trump nominated Ratcliffe successful January to service arsenic the manager of the CIA.
At ODNI, Patel besides worked to absorption quality postulation against counter-narcotic and transnational threats.
Prior to joining the archetypal Trump administration, Patel served arsenic the nationalist information advisor and elder counsel for counterterrorism to the House Permanent Select Committee connected Intelligence.
Patel was besides the main researcher for the committee’s probe into Russian interference successful the 2016 statesmanlike election. Throughout his investigation, helium led the effort to uncover FISA maltreatment and exposed the FBI and the DOJ’s unlawful actions earlier national tribunal to illegally surveil Americans, including members of the 2016 Trump campaign.
Patel uncovered the authorities surveillance maltreatment that led to the assignment of 2 peculiar counsels: 1 who determined determination was nary specified collusion, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and different who determined the full premise of the FBI’s archetypal probe was bogus, Special Counsel John Durham.
In July 2016, during the 2016 predetermination cycle, the FBI launched an probe into whether the Trump run was colluding with Russia to power the result of the election. That investigation, wrong the bureau, was known arsenic "Crossfire Hurricane."
By January 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey had notified Trump of a dossier, known arsenic the Steele dossier, that contained salacious and unverified allegations astir Trump’s purported coordination with the Russian government, a cardinal papers prompting the opening of the probe.
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The dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, a erstwhile British quality officer, and commissioned by Fusion GPS. Hillary Clinton's statesmanlike run had hired Fusion GPS during the 2016 predetermination cycle.
It yet was determined that the Clinton run and the Democratic National Committee funded the dossier done the instrumentality steadfast Perkins Coie.
Trump fired Comey successful May 2017. Days later, Robert Mueller was appointed arsenic peculiar counsel to instrumentality implicit the "Crossfire Hurricane" probe and analyse whether the Trump run colluded with Russia to power the 2016 predetermination cycle.
While Mueller investigated, the HPSCI opened its ain probe into alleged Trump-Russia collusion.
Patel, arsenic main researcher for Nunes, by February 2018 had discovered wide authorities surveillance abuse, including improper surveillance of erstwhile Trump run adjutant Carter Page.
"While astir members of Congress were acceptable to disregard the unprecedented civilian rights abuses against the Trump run and myself, Kash Patel’s grooming arsenic a apical nationalist defender made him the cleanable advocator for exposing 1 of the top predetermination interference scandals of each time," Page told Fox News Digital.
Patel was an integral portion of the instauration of a memo released by then-Chair Nunes successful February 2018, which elaborate the DOJ's and FBI’s surveillance of Page nether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Nunes and Patel revealed that the infamous anti-Trump dossier funded by Democrats "formed an indispensable part" of the exertion to spy connected Page.
The memo referred to closed-door grounds from erstwhile FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who said that "no surveillance warrant would person been sought" from the FISA tribunal "without the Steele dossier information."
But erstwhile applying for the FISA warrant, the FBI omitted the origins of the dossier, specifically its backing from Clinton, who was Trump’s 2016 statesmanlike opponent.
The memo besides said Steele, who worked arsenic an FBI informant, was yet chopped disconnected from the bureau for what the FBI described arsenic the astir superior of violations, "an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his narration with the FBI."
The memo noted that the FBI and DOJ obtained "one archetypal FISA warrant" targeting Page and 3 FISA renewals from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The statute required that each 90 days a FISA bid connected an American national "must beryllium reviewed."
The memo revealed that Comey signed 3 FISA applications for Page, portion McCabe, erstwhile Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, erstwhile Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and erstwhile Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente signed astatine slightest one.
The memo was wide criticized by Democrats but yet was correct.
The Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, reviewed the memo and confirmed the dossier served arsenic the ground for the arguable FISA warrants obtained against Page.
"The feds spied connected Kash during the probe and ran accusation warfare against him, but Kash helped exposure them anyway," Nunes told Fox News Digital.
Nunes was referring to the Justice Department successful November 2017 utilizing expansive assemblage subpoenas to secretly get the idiosyncratic email and telephone information for Patel and different Nunes staffer connected the HPSCI arsenic they were investigating FBI maltreatment and the Russia probe.
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House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote a missive to then-FBI Director Christopher Wray successful 2024 to analyse the improper surveillance of Patel.
Meanwhile, Mueller completed his probe successful April 2019, which yielded nary grounds of transgression conspiracy oregon coordination betwixt the Trump run and Russia to power the 2016 election.
Weeks later, then-Attorney General Bill Barr tapped then-U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham to service arsenic peculiar counsel to analyse the origins of the FBI’s archetypal Trump-Russia probe.
Durham successful his study said the Justice Department and FBI "failed to uphold their ngo of strict fidelity to the law" erstwhile it launched its archetypal Trump–Russia probe.
He besides said successful his study that the FBI "failed to act" connected a "clear informing sign" that the bureau was the "target" of a Clinton-led effort to "manipulate oregon power the instrumentality enforcement process for governmental purposes" up of the 2016 statesmanlike election.
Durham was referring to quality connected a program stirred up by Clinton’s statesmanlike run successful July 2016 to necktie Trump to Russia successful an effort to distract from the probe into her usage of a backstage email server and mishandling of classified information.
Patel, a lawyer, served arsenic a nationalist defender and nationalist information authoritative astatine the Justice Department and tried scores of analyzable transgression cases. All told, Patel has served successful the U.S. authorities for 16 years.
His last relation successful the archetypal Trump medication was serving arsenic the main of unit astatine the Department of Defense.
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