02/13/2025
BREAKING: Senator Dick Durbin goes for the MAGA jugular and demands an investigation into "highly credible" reports that Trump's FBI Director nominee is already conducting a "purge" of the bureau despite not being confirmed.
These allegations are deeply alarming...
Durbin said that Kash Patel — who Trump wants to lead the FBI despite him getting paid $25,000 to appear in a propaganda film with Kremlin connections — has instituted "directives" that are being carried out by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, and members of a "newly-established" FBI director’s advisory team.
Since Patel has not yet been confirmed as FBI Director (and in fact should not be confirmed at all) he has no legal authority to issue orders to the bureau. The Trump administration is intentionally circumventing the Senate to jumpstart Patel's authoritarian policies.
"I have received highly credible information from multiple sources that Kash Patel has been personally directing the ongoing purge of career civil servants at the Federal Bureau of Investigation," wrote Durbin in a letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
"Although Mr. Patel is President Trump’s nominee to be FBI Director, he is still a private citizen with no role in government," he continued. "This alleged misconduct is beyond the pale and must be investigated immediately."
Crucially, Durbin says that this information directly contradicts Patel's statements during his confirmation hearing — meaning that he may have perjured himself. Patel claimed that he was "not aware" of any plans/discussions to punish FBI agents or personnel who investigated Trump.
Clearly, that was a lie.
According to Durbin, acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll and acting FBI Deputy Director Robert Kissane held a meeting at the end of January during which "it was relayed" that several executive assistant directors and other supervisors would be fired unless they resigned.
The director’s advisory team allegedly even had a written list that included numerous officials that FBI leaders understood to be "people in the crosshairs."
Notes from that meeting stated that "KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ." Bove said at the meeting that he had received several calls from Stephen Miller the night before.
"Mr. Miller was pressuring him because Mr. Patel wanted the FBI to remove targeted employees faster, as DOJ had already done with prosecutors," Durbin explained in his letter.
Durbin's sources outlined the shadowy chain of command currently in place. Patel receives information from the advisory team and then he "provides direction" to Miller, who then relays it to Bove.
"It is unacceptable for a nominee with no current role in government, much less at the FBI, to personally direct unjustified and potentially illegal adverse employment actions against senior career FBI leadership and other dedicated, nonpartisan law enforcement officers," wrote Durbin.
“I hope that the Republicans will take it seriously. I do," Durbin told The Hill. "To think that this man is dismissing people from the FBI before he has any responsibility legally or otherwise, it’s just an indication of how ambitious he is, how determined he is for a political goal, and how dangerous he would be to be given a 10-year tenure in the Department of Justice."
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