The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, began two days of interrogation on Tuesday of the Congress Committees on his mandate leading the Federal Research Office so far. He is also sure of receiving questions about the murder of the conservative activist and influential Charlie Kirk last week.
Patel will be for the first time in front of the Judicial Committee of the Senate in his role of supervision of the agency before facing his Chamber counterpart on Wednesday.
Patel has been criticized for his management of Kirk’s research, sharing on social networks at a time that a suspect was in custody, but had to go back an hour and a half later, but Patel has maintained his performance, promoting the fact that the FBI caught the suspicious kirk shooter in less than 36 hours.
The Dick Durbin classification member, a Democrat, criticized Patel during his opening comments on Tuesday, saying that Patel caused “mass confusion” in his positions about Kirk’s murder.
Kirk was killed in Utah on Wednesday and the suspect, Tyler Robinson, was caught after his father gave him to the authorities on Friday. Patel argues that this only happened because he ordered “against all the recommendations for the application of the law,” as he said on Saturday, the launch of improved videos and photos of the suspect.
“Because of the comparative good, Boston’s bombing, the FBI did not release images for three days,” Patel told “Fox & Friends “Monday morning.” I made an executive decision on a need for research and operational, and turned out to be the correct movement. “
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, appears before the Judicial Committee of the Senate for his first supervision hearing, on September 16, 2025, at the Washington Capitol.
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He also addressed the criticisms he has faced for how he handled the investigation.
“I was telling the world what the FBI was doing while we were doing. [is] management.”
For his part, President Donald Trump is behind Patel, and tells Fox News on Saturday that “I am very proud of the FBI. Kash, and everyone else has done a great job.”
Patel will also face questions about a large number of other problems during his mandate in the FBI, including the dismissal of three superior agents who demanded for reinstatement last week.
Brian Driscoll, who previously served as an interim director of the FBI during the first days of Trump’s second mandate, Steven Jensen, former interim director of the Washington Field Office of the FBI, and the former director in charge of the field office of Las Vegas of the FBI, Spencer Evans, joined the law of the triumph of the triumph of triumphing.
The three former officials, whose careers collectively covered more than six decades of police experience in the FBI ranks, allege that layoffs violated their due process, as well as their rights of the first amendment to freedom and speech.
“Patel not only acted illegally, but deliberately, he decided to prioritize the politicization of FBI on the protection of the American people,” he alleges the demand. “As explained in this document, his decision to make him degraded the national security of the country by shooting three of the most experienced operational leaders of the FBI, each of them experts in preventing terrorism and reducing violent crime.”
The director of the Federal Investigation Office, Kash Patel, testifies to the Senate Judicial Committee in the Hart Senate Office building in Capitol Hill, on September 16, 2025 in Washington.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr.i., a member of the Judicial Committee, told ABC News that the lawsuit “contains quite convictions that now swore as part of a judicial process.”
The director will also face questions about his so -called “list of enemies”, a campaign promise to eliminate who saw as bad actors in the government, as well as its use of the FBI plane.
Whitehouse told ABC News that Patel “brings a genuinely political reason to repeated cases of political decision making in the FBI.” He said that “it is really, very, very ironic about the people who are supposedly so angry on the weapon that is now making weapons on an unprecedented scale.”
You are also expected to face questions about the management of Jeffrey Epstein files.
The Trump administration has been dealing with the setback he received from Maga’s supporters for his decision not to release more materials related to Epstein’s research, the rich financial and sentenced sexual offender who died from suicide in jail in 2019.
It is rumored that Epstein, whose private property of the island was in the virgin islands of the United States, maintained a “list of customers” of celebrities and politicians, that the right -wing influencers have accused the authorities without foundation of the hiding place.
Trump promised during the 2024 presidential campaign to release the archives as a whole and Patel before taking the FBI’s job he had pressed the statements without foundation about who was in them.
The Department of Justice and the FBI announced in July that they had not found evidence that Epstein maintained a list of clients after several senior officials such as Patel, before joining the Administration, had accused the government of protecting information about the case.
Last week, the Chamber’s Supervision Committee published what he said was a Trump note to Epstein on his birthday, that the White House and Trump denied was written by him.
On September 2, the Committee published more than 33,000 pages of records related to Epstein after the Department of Justice for them cited, but the Democrats in the Committee said that most of the archives are already public.
