On March 4, 2022, FBI Deputy Director Abbate warned all FBI employees: “Regardless of your rank and title, every one of us has the responsibility to treat everyone with dignity, respect, and professionalism. ...
“There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director.”
Patel also told multiple senators that he did not have an “enemies list.”
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He has directed FBI leadership to implement a plan to put this promise into action,” the FBI said in a statement.
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino was named deputy FBI director in February and was sworn in earlier this month.
He also said that the FBI is doing its "best in the current budgetary environment to prioritize the mission, act as good fiscal stewards, find waste and inefficiencies, and to enact reforms while moving the FBI forward."
ET on Feb. 19 following the FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections Office. The board reconvenes after adjourning the previous day, continuing its first session since the federal investigation became public.
In other news, the FBI is focusing on the Somali scam rings in Minnesota, and in a new update announced that fraudsters of Somali origin who have become American citizens may be denaturalized and deported.
“FBI investigations identified that after paying the ransom, one victim was contacted by a separate Medusa actor who claimed the negotiator had stolen the ransom amount already paid.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans says the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street travelled to Ontario in July 2023. Special agent Lyonel Myrthil says the investigation is now “crossing state and international borders,” as law enforcement pieces together Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s movements in the lead-up to the New Year’s truck […]
“The FBI and our partners safely arrested Mr. Villanueva today and prevented further support and spreading of ISIS ideology.”
FBI agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, assisted by FBI SWAT, arrested Villanueva early on Aug. 1.
The FBI thwarted a plot to use explosive-laden drones targeting the recent UFC event at the White House. Find out what the plan allegedly involved, and the reaction from Vice President JD Vance.
The FBI said on Tuesday it had thwarted a potential threat ahead of the UFC event at the White House last weekend and that multiple people are in custody.
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The FBI carried out a raid of an election office in Fulton County, Georgia. This was allegedly related to the 2020 elections and is part of an ongoing investigation.
President Donald Trump will hold a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday afternoon on reducing violent crime across the country. NTD is bringing it to you live.
Without going into specifics, the FBI director added that the bureau's findings may “surprise and shock people because of what past FBI leaders have said about it.”
The FBI declined to comment.
Trump's nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Democrats in the upper chamber this week delayed the vote.
The FBI has said it would investigate the "agent-involved shooting."
"The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force officers seriously," Ms. Barker said on Monday.