OAN Staff Brook Mallory
4:30pm – Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
The nomination of FBI leader Kash Patel was advanced by the US Senate on Tuesday, putting him in the position of leading perhaps the most important law enforcement agency in the country.
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Later this week, Patel, who says Democrats are Trump's most “controversial” candidate, will face a final confirmation vote after the Senate votes 48-45 along the party line.
As a former Intelligence Bureau and Department of Defense official during Trump's first term, Patel advocated a dramatic overhaul of the FBI, pledged to increase his involvement in the fight against violent crime and illegal immigration.
He also vowed to halt major drug trafficking operations that allowed the US to flow fentanyl and other dangerous drugs.
Patel is one of the most outspoken opponents of Trump's “law” FBI investigations on a variety of topics, including digging into the 2020 election and claiming to maintain confidential documents at his Florida club, and is now broken Includes “Russian conspiracy.” ” The theory came to light by Democrats during the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, despite his past experience with DOJ and the fact that he was awarded an award by the Obama administration for his outstanding work in investigating, prosecuting and convictions of terrorists, Democrats still have him. considers it “incompetent” to lead the FBI.
Last week, the Senate committee voted 12-10 to send his nomination to the entire Senate.
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