FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to operate the Alcohol Bureau, cigarettes, firearms and Explosives (ATFs) on Saturday, two sources confirmed by Fox News Digital.
The news comes the day after Patel was sworn in as the 9th FBI Director in a narrow Senate vote.
Former FBI director Christopher Ray resigned at the end of former President Biden's term, and Attorney General Pam Bondy fired ATF legal counsel Pamela Hicks on Thursday.
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FBI Director Kash Patel will speak at the Soldier Ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Friday. (Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
“Today, I gave an official notice from the U.S. Attorney General that employment with the ATF's chief advisor and the Department of Justice had been removed from its position as fired,” Hicks said on Thursday. Posted on. Check her to finish.
Hicks has been the ATF's chief counsel under the Biden administration since 2021 and has served as deputy chief attorney under the ATF. President Donald Trump First management. She spent 23 years as an attorney within the Department of Justice (DOJ) and posted on LinkedIn.
Ag Bondi and former ATF official Pamela Hicks. (ATF/Getty Images)
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“To serve as the ATF's chief counsel was the highest honor of my career and it was a joy to work with the people at ATF,” Hicks continued in her post. “Thank you to my colleagues for their friendship and partnership over the years.”
Kash Patel is sworn in the Indian Treaty Office of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) as FBI Director of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday. (Reuters/Ra Milis)
“These people were targeting gun owners,” Bondy told ATF's Fox News on Thursday. “It won't happen under this administration.”
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Both the FBI and the ATF are part of the DOJ.
