Stunning new revelations regarding President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) came to light this week ahead of Senate confirmation hearings.
Senate Democrats reportedly obtained a whistleblower report claiming that FBI nominee, Kash Patel, violated protocol during a hostage rescue mission in October 2020.
The whistleblower letter, obtained by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) claimed that Patel leaked news that two Americans and the remains of a third were being transferred to U.S. custody from Yemen, where they had been held hostage by Houthi rebels. The whistleblower claims Patel leaked news of the trade to the Wall Street Journal hours before the hostages were in U.S. custody, potentially endangering the deal.
The protocol of the multi-agency group in charge of the mission was to withhold information about hostage deals until the subjects were both in U.S. custody and their families had been notified, according to the whistleblower.
A transition official pushed back on the report in a statement to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, saying Patel has a “track record of success.”
“Mr. Patel was a public defender, decorated prosecutor, and accomplished national security official that kept Americans safe,” the official said. “He has a track record of success in every branch of government, from the court room to congressional hearing room to the situation room. There is no veracity to this anonymous source’s complaints about protocol.”
In the October 2020 case, the deal went forward without any issues. In exchange, the U.S. arranged for the release of some 200 Houthi fighters being held prisoner in Saudi Arabia.
Alexander Gray, who served as Chief of Staff for the White House National Security Council under Trump’s first administration, called the allegations “simply absurd.”
Senate Democrats delivered the whistleblower letter on Monday morning to Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Acting Treasury Secretary David Lebryk, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CBS News reported.
Patel has called for radical changes at the FBI and was a fierce and vocal critic of the bureau’s work as it investigated ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Nominees require a majority vote in the Senate with Republicans holding a 53-47 vote advantage over Democrats.
Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of ISIS murder victim Kayla Mueller, offered their full endorsement of Kash Patel for FBI director.
The Muellers wrote a letter this week to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) of the Senate Judiciary Committee, offering their full endorsement of Patel to serve as director of the FBI under the second Trump administration.
“He loves his country. He loves the people of this country,” Marsha Mueller told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview via Zoom on Monday morning. “To us, you know, he is a person that we would go to for help. And he is so action oriented.”
“Just like Trump,” Carl Mueller added to his wife’s comments on Patel’s action-motivated personality.
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Yet another anonymous lie spreader,typical Democrat/KKK/Communist tactics. Put this mental midget under the light of sworn testimony, and see how fast this dung dries up!
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Dickey boy is worried about the epstein list ha ha ha
Very mild violation, even if true. Is that the best they’ve got?
We can expect whistleblowers who don’t want the truth to come out with lies… Lying is no longer allowed!
Of course an unnamed source has come out with allegations against another Republican these lying DEMOC——-RATS
The tired old, an anonymous source’s say… time to send anyone using that as a standard to the crap pile! It is just democrat party fantasy!
I support whistleblowers, but the details appear questionable, and too conveniently timed, looking more like a fabrication designed to slow or halt the confirmation process.
You can “bet the bank” that RAT is a lying Democrat. They all tell untruths. I dislike all of them.
One thing for SURE. This reflects very poorly on Senator Dick Durbin. Last minute anonymous and baseless accusation on a successful prisoner exchange 5 years ago, and what does he do? Does he investigate it, or have the appropriate authorities do so to see if there is anything to it? No. He publicizes these baseless claims.
Dickey boy is afraid that Kash will reveal epsteins list. He’s been fighting Kash for this reason. He probably hired this “Whistleblower”
Dickey boy, still trying to keep epsteins list hidden? He paid this “whistelblower” it’s unreal.
So Dick Durbin came up with this person just like that It is sad to say that you can’t trust Durbin and his buddy Adam Schiff both of these 2 are well-known liars, Ok I will be nice fabricator It is a shame that we have such a slime These people do not work for the people They work for the party It is plain to see that there could care less about the citizens of our country So now they want to take a man out of the job of cleaning up the FBI but the democrats can’t stand that they only deal in lies and deceit If you have to lie and cheat to get things done then you should not be representing anyone Oh I forgot they are not representing anyone but their agenda It is a damn shame people like me who served our country for truth honor and respect As a disabled Marine veteran I see that these people are working to stop the way our country is governed What this means is they change the rules to fit their agenda and they don’t want citizens to have anything to say The democrats tried to push through a bill before the Trump inauguration that would have put the first Amendment in jeopardy So you see they do not want us to have a say in anything I have watched Dick Durbin and he is so one sided If he cannot restrict himself ten he must resign today I think there should be many of us demanding his resignation We are far past time in cleaning out our the cancer So I have named to that should be on all our lists and that is Durbin and Schiff We don’t have to put up with their garbage