New FBI leader Kash Patel tapped to run ATF as acting director

FBI Director Kash Patel volition beryllium tapped to tally the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), 2 sources confirmed to Fox News Digital connected Saturday. 

The quality comes a time aft Patel was sworn in arsenic the ninth FBI manager successful a constrictive Senate vote. 

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray resigned astatine the extremity of erstwhile President Biden's word and Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the ATF wide counsel, Pamela Hicks, connected Thursday. 

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"Earlier today, I was served authoritative announcement from the Attorney General of the United States that I was being removed from my presumption arsenic the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Department of Justice terminated," Hicks posted connected her LinkedIn leafage Thursday, confirming her termination. 

Hicks had served arsenic ATF's main counsel since 2021 nether the Biden administration, and served arsenic lawman main counsel for ATF nether President Donald Trump's archetypal administration. She spent 23 years wide arsenic an lawyer wrong the Department of Justice (DOJ), she posted to LinkedIn. 

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"Serving arsenic ATF Chief Counsel has been the highest grant of my vocation and moving with the radical astatine ATF and passim the Department has been a pleasure," Hicks continued successful her post. "I convey my colleagues for their relationship and concern implicit the years." 

"These radical were targeting weapon owners," Bondi told Fox News connected Thursday of the ATF. "Not gonna hap nether this administration." 

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Both the FBI and ATF are portion of the DOJ.