Kash Patel, Trump’s selection as FBI director, has little experience with the 38,000-person agency and has vowed to use it to ...

President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel will appear at a confirmation hearing this week, as the devoted Trump ally has long vowed to punish Trump’s enemies—drawing widespread ...

Barr recalled in his memoir that he adamantly opposed a push to promote Patel to serve as deputy FBI director during Trump’s first term and told then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows it ...

Follow MSNBC’s live blog coverage of Kash Patel’s and Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation hearings ... Former Attorney General William Barr wrote in his book that Patel “had virtually no ...

While some Republicans have hailed the pick, Donald Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has raised alarm among many national security veterans.

T he Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has enormous power to investigate crime. Leading the agency requires judgment, ...

Patel scaled back his fierce criticisms of the FBI, repudiated QAnon conspiracy theories and broke with Trump on J6 pardons ...

Nominees have for decades pledged to refuse illegal presidential orders, but many of Trump’s nominees suddenly won’t.

FBI nominee Kash Patel said in his 2023 book that Adam Schiff was one of Washington’s “corrupt actors of the first order.” Thursday, Schiff, now a U.S. senator and member of the Senate Judiciary ...