The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Kash Patel as the director of the FBI, making him the head of the country’s major federal law enforcement agency. However, Democrats suspect his ability and worry that he will work at the behest of Donald Trump and will take action against the Republican President’s opponents.
Senator Dick Durbin, D-III said to his colleagues before the 51-49 votes by the GOP-controlled Senate, “I can’t imagine a worse option.” Men’s Senator Susan Kolins and Alaska’s Lisa Murkovski Republican party were the only candidates.
Patel, who is loyal to Trump’s loyal and agency, will inherit the FBI, which is suffering from the upheaval, as the Department of Justice last month has excluded a group of senior officers of the bureau and the US on 6 January 2021 The names of thousands of agents participating in the investigation related to the riots in the capital are highly unusual demand.
Patel has expressed his desire to implement major changes in the FBI, including reducing attendance at the headquarters in Washington, and raising intelligence and renewing renewed duties of the bureau of the bureau at the place of national security work, raising intelligence information and national security work instead of national security work. Is, which has joined its field in the last two decades.
But he also repeated Trump’s desire for vengeance. Patel had created concern among the Democrats before the nomination that he would take action against the anti -trump “conspirators” in the federal government and the media.
Republican, angry with law enforcement prejudice against conservatives during the Democratic Biden administration, has been united behind Patel as the right person for this job, angry with criminal investigation against Trump.
Senator Chak Grassli, R-Lova, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said before Patel confirmed, “Mr. Patel wants to make the FBI accountable once again so that the FBI has received the reputation that has been historically received for law enforcement. Can be done. ” “He wants to make the FBI accountable to the Congress, President and most importantly to those whom they serve, ie American taxpayer.”
Democrats complained of lack of management experience with Patel compared to former FBI directors and highlighted the inflammatory statements made in the past, which he said that these statements have questioned his decision.
Patel is a former federal lawyer and anti -terrorism prosecutor of the Department of Justice. He attracted Trump’s attention during the first term of the President, when as an employee of the Republican -led House Intelligence Committee, Patel, with a sharp criticism of the FBI investigation into the FBI’s investigation between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Help in writing the memorandum.
Patel later joined the Trump Administration, as an anti -terrorism officer in the National Security Council and as the Chief of Staff of the Defense Secretary.
