WASHINGTON – Kash Patel, designated by the FBI director, advanced Tuesday in the Senate's first procedural vote.There is a vote“And it will be confirmed later this week.
The Senate voted 48-45 along the party line to open discussions on the candidates and began counting down the 30-hour debate before Patel is expected to receive final approval on Thursday, close to the confirmation process Sources will inform you of the post.
The GOP Senator praised Patel, 44, from Long Island, for his experience as a prosecutor and former national security aide in the first Trump administration, as well as his firm commitment to eradicating politics.Weaponization“Back at the FBI, returning to the basics of the department's law enforcement obligations.
At his confirmation hearing, Patel said that “half of the number of crimes committed in a wide range of crimes, including “100,000 rapes…100,000 drug overdose from Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin, and…17,000 murders.” We pledged to reduce the number of people.
A candidate who celebrates Rank and File FBI agents for being a “courageous, courageous warrior of justice” would have a ten-year term if confirmed as one of the nation's leading law enforcement officers. I will serve.
“He has created more than 1,000 pages of records and disclosed more than 1,000 interviews,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), said at a hearing last week. has undergone a background investigation by the FBI, generating financial disclosures and working with ethics officials to identify and resolve potential conflicts of interest.”
“At his hearing, he answered questions for over five hours and provided 147 pages of answers to written questions,” Grassley added. “We looked into every detail of his life, and he has been subjected to unrelenting attacks on his character all along.”
Judicial Committee Democrats opposed Patel by delaying their initial approval vote by a week, with candidates perjuring themselves at confirmation hearings and unanimously when the committee votes come He accused him of voting.
Patel began his career as a public defense attorney in Florida, including a federal prosecutor at the Obama Department of Justice, a congressional aide to Devin Nunes (R-Calif), former chairman of the House Intelligence Election Committee, and the first He served as the national security officer for the Trump administration.
“Mr. Patel was committed to revelation of the Crossfire Hurricane,” Grassley said last week. “He said the Democratic National Committee funded false allegations against President Trump, the DOJ and the FBI hid information to eavesdrop on the presidential election from FISA courts, and FBI lawyers lied in the process. It showed.
Others such as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, have created songs sung by federal prisoners who have been appointed to the office and sung by convicted federal prisoners. After that, the Capitol Riots, the January 6, 2021 crime, which Patel alleges has misunderstood to the committee about affecting the recent firing of FBI officials.
But Patel has been somewhat broken with Trump about the massive pardon of the Jan. 6 mob, including those who stormed Capitol police while stalling Congressional recognition for Joe Biden's victory in January 2021. Ta.
“I do not agree to commute sentences for individuals who have committed violence against law enforcement,” he told members of the Judiciary Committee during the confirmation hearing.
Trump, 78, said in November that he “chosen his candidate to end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantled immigrant crime gangs, and to stop the evil tragedy of human trafficking across the border. It announced.
“Kash will work under our great Attorney General Pam Bondi to regain faithfulness, courage and integrity to the FBI.”
