Schiff: the management of the FBI of Patel replaced the expertise with the “rabid partisanry”

Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif, strongly criticized Kash Patel’s mandate as Director of FBI on Wednesday, telling journalists that he considered the leadership of Patel as a deep partisan and a “terrible tragedy” for the agency for the application of the laws of the country.

Speaking at a press conference alongside the former lecturer of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., And other Democrats in the Chamber, Schiff took shade to the testimony of the Patel one day earlier before the Senate judicial committee, which, according to Schiff, declared crystallizing its concerns concerning politicization within the office.

The FBI “was the first law enforcement of the law of the country and the world because they were constantly professional and non -supporters,” said Schiff on Wednesday, noting the close working relationship he had with FBI agents during the years he spent as a federal prosecutor.

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Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Talk to journalists outside the American Capitol on September 17, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

“It is a terrible tragedy, I think, so that the men and women of the office have such a bad direction which replaces the expertise with incompetence, which replaces non-partists with the most enraged partisanary,” Schiff told Fox News Digital. “And it is not linked to the reason why we are here today.”

His remarks come when Patel appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony to the judicial committees of the Senate and the Chamber.

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The former lecturer of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Is addressed to journalists during a press conference outside the American Capitol on September 17, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch / Fox News Digital)

The two hearings were marked by strong lines of questioning of the Democrats, which have toasted a patel on questions ranging from a wave of FBI layoffs, the processing by the office of Epstein files and concerns of politicization, between many other subjects.

Schiff, in particular, pressed a patel on his mandate at the FBI, claiming that office agents – mainly assigned to his 52 field offices across the country and hate to see their politicized work – wanted to know what, if necessary, the walking orders that Patel had received from President Donald Trump.

The old comings and goings were a match of cries between the two while Schiff pressed a patel several times on the layoffs of the FBI agents and if these individuals have been withdrawn for political reasons.

Patel, for his part, described Schiff as a “political jester”.

Addressing journalists on Wednesday, Schiff said that the appearance of a patel had not done much to appease his wider fears of armament within the office.

“You cannot have a dynamic democracy without the rule of law,” he told Fox News Digital. “You cannot have the rule of law if you have an armed FBI and an armed ministry of justice, and, unfortunately, that is what we have here today,” said Schiff.

FBI agents are going through a crime scene. (Getty Images)

He also weighed yesterday on the patel remarks on Epstein’s files, another question that aroused intense criticisms from the legislators, after Patel said on Tuesday that there was “no credible evidence” that Jeffrey Epstein was the traffic of women other than for himself.

Schiff said it was a “surprising statement”, especially someone who had previously promoted the conviction that Epstein has maintained a large list of customers of powerful people.

“So it was completely contradictory to everything he said in the past,” he said. He also noted Patel’s “refusal” to answer his questions about the reasons why the deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche refused to press Ghislaine Maxwell further on the members of the cabinet whom she identified as “close” to Epstein or to have a relationship with him during a two -day interview in July.

“Blanche refused to ask who they were and simply ignored his comment,” added Schiff.

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“And this is, once again, the kind of incompetence we see,” he said. “Incompetence is probably the most polished thing I can describe, but it certainly looks like a concealment.”

The Ministry of Justice and the FBI found it difficult to repress public pressure on them to disclose more information related to Epstein’s survey, highlighting the history of history in a rapid information cycle and among Trump supporters, who were some of the most important votes to demand that the information be published.