The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Kash Patel to lead the FBI and carry out Donald Trump¡¯s vision for overhauling an agency that the president claims has been weaponized against him and other conservatives.
Patel, 44, who was approved on a 51-49 mostly party line vote, takes over the FBI at a turbulent time. The new administration has already fired or reassigned dozens of Justice Department and FBI officials and demanded a list of about 5,000 bureau personnel who worked on investigations into Trump and rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The bureau is a key part of Trump¡¯s government reform agenda, after he was investigated by its agents in two cases that resulted in criminal indictments. One of Trump¡¯s first executive orders after being inaugurated was ¡°to correct past misconduct by the federal government related to the weaponization of law enforcement and the weaponization of the intelligence community.¡±
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