FBI director Kash Patel comes from transparency in the judicial testimony of the Senate

FBI director Kash Patel promised that the office would continue in a quest for transparency during his testimony to the Senate’s judicial committee as a criticism of his treatment of the investigation of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

In its declaration of opening to the committee obtained by Fox News Digital, Patel listed a series of achievements that the agency has made since President Donald Trump took office, including tens of thousands of arrests, a realignment of the agency and the emphasis on reprimand on illicit drugs.

Patel recognized growing criticism of its FBI management and challenged the Panel legislators to come after him.

“I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “If you want to criticize my 16 years of service, please bring it.”

Patel launched his testimony by offering an update on the FBI investigation into “the appalling assassination of Charlie Kirk”.

The FBI management of Kash Patel under surveillance before the Senate judicial surveillance hearing

FBI director Kash Patel opened his testimony to the Senate’s judicial committee with an update in the investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

“It is important that the FBI is as transparent as possible without compromising our investigation,” said Patel.

The FBI chief has scored numerous conclusions in the case, including an “in -depth review” of the Tyler Robinson suspect’s accounts and devices. He said that more than 100 interviews had been carried out from the shooting and that the FBI received more than 11,000 submissions through the National Threat Operations Center and more than 16,000 bids via the line of digital media.

“We make a traditionally non -transparent non -transparent agency it has ever been,” said Patel.

He also welcomed the public’s participation in the case, and noted that the tens of thousands of advice that flocked contributed to identifying a suspect.

“Tyler Robinson is in detention today because of this partnership,” he said.

The knives went out for the director of the FBI besieged Kash Patel, despite Trump’s support

The founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, arrives to speak to the presidential republican candidate, former president Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, on October 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)

Patel’s appearance before the committee was in books for weeks before Kirk’s death and was initially designed as an annual FBI surveillance hearing. However, its management of the survey, social media failures and a wave of agency sheets have generated new control over its management.

Patel fell under the microscope for a position he made on X in the hours that followed Kirk, where he wrote: “The subject of the horrible shooting today who took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in detention.”

However, this individual and another were captured and released before the police caught Robinson, 22, around 33 hours after the shooting.

The Senate’s judicial president, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, briefly addressed to Kirk in his opening remarks, saying: “May God bless you, Charlie Kirk.”

The president, who has pleaded for the denunciators for decades, then plunged into long remarks on the weaponry of the government and congratulated the Pate for having compensated what he said to be 10 employees of the FBI who have lost their security authorization in recent years.

“In a short time, you have been director, you have corrected reprisals of the reporters and increased transparency more than any other FBI director that I have seen, and I am more than anyone in this committee,” said Grassley.

Kash Patel Torches “ conspiracy theories ” on the bondi quarrel in the middle of Maga furor on Epstein files

But the best democrat of the committee, Senator Dick Durbin, D-ill., Focused on the large strip of MJ and FBI staff who were dismissed, sometimes without explanation, a subject that should arise several times during the interrogation of the Democrats.

Durbin criticized Patel’s deference to Trump, saying that the director “installed magazines from Maga” to key positions and initiated internal “loyalty tests”, including polygraph tests. Durbin revealed that some FBI officials had failed these tests and needed derogations to continue working in the office.

He noted the recent trial brought by three senior officials of the ousted FBI, who accused the Patel of having dismissed them unconstitutionally and of manipulating the powers of article II of the President to do so.

Durbin also noted that Patel had little experience in the police, calling for his inexperience of “amazing” and accusing him of having accelerated unskilled recruits to fill the open jobs of the FBI.

Patel has repeatedly stressed that he had made progress to transform the agency into a more transparent organization and used “Epstein files” as an example.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both charged with federal accusations of sex trafficking from years of Epstein abuse of minor girls. (Joe Schildhorn / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Earlier this year, a memo of the DoJ and the FBI said that “it was the determination of the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that no other disclosure would be appropriate or justified”, after investigating the tens of thousands of documents associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

This sparked a fire storm on Capitol Hill which is still roasting. Before becoming director, Patel had promoted the idea that the government hid a secret list of sexual predators affiliated with Epstein. Patel during the hearing arose that the “original sin” of the Epstein affair had started in the early 2000s, where “very limited search mandates which did not learn as much material in the possession of the FBI that it should have”.

“If I was director of the FBI, I would not have authorized a search warrant as limited to be issued for these types of atrocious offenses,” he said.

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He argued that under the former American prosecutor Alex Acosta, Epstein had been authorized to conclude an agreement with the non-propulsion agreements “, as well as the courts issued protective and sealed orders of large volumes of never disclosed equipment”.

“Non-procedure prohibited any future criminal guilt throughout this period,” said Patel. “However, this administration has done more than all previous administrations to seek transparency in this case.”

“(The) Doj launched requests to the court to under the files of the Grand Jury several times, but the courts have denied these requests,” he continued. “In addition, it was the first Trump administration that brought the file renewed against Epstein in 2019. Under the direction of this president, we returned all the credible information in collaboration with our partners in the congress.”