FBI Director Kash Patel engaged in a heated Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing regarding lowered agency hiring standards, mass personnel firings and agency involvement in 2020 election ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 15, 2026. Win McNamee/Getty Images Kash ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau’s loosening of hiring standards regarding an applicant’s past experience with prostitution and bestiality, insisting that the ...

FBI Director Kash Patel sat silently as the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat called him the "least qualified and most partisan" director in the bureau's history. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the ...

Senator Chuck Grassley had an explosive outburst at Senator Cory Booker Tuesday, after the Democratic lawmaker grilled FBI Director Kash Patel over his incompetence. Appearing before the Senate ...

FBI Director Kash Patel needed a cheat sheet of attacks in order to dodge tough questions from Senator Dick Durbin Tuesday. It’s no wonder Patel refused to answer Democratic lawmakers’ questions at a ...

Kash Patel wants to be the White House’s preeminent attack dog. But as usual, he can’t help but break through the fence and run into traffic. This time, his mistake was a very strange quasi-defense of ...

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, suggested on Tuesday that he was open to sending federal agents to polling places, raising alarms from Democrats that the Trump administration wou ...

• On Capitol Hill: FBI Director Kash Patel was questioned by lawmakers during an at-times heated Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. He fielded questions on FBI hiring standards — including ...

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