The Democrat accuses Trump Fbi Pick Kash Patel of having secretly ordered layoffs

The best democrat of the senatorial judicial committee sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice accusing Kash Patel, the choice of President Trump for the director of the FBI, of secretly orchestrating the dismissals of FBI officials, a day after Having said to the oath committee that he was not aware of any plan to do so.

“If these allegations are true, Mr. Patel may have Parjured before the Senate’s judicial committee,” wrote Senator Dick Durbin, D-ill.,

Durbin said he had spoken to denunciators who told him that the Patel had relayed the instructions to the Deputy Chief of the White House for Stephen Miller politics, who then relayed the instructions of the Patel to the interim general assistant Emil Bove.

“I have received very credible information from several sources that Kash Patel has personally directed the continuous purge of career officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” wrote Durbin in the letter. “Although Mr. Patel is President Trump’s candidate to be director of the FBI, he is still a private citizen without role in the government.”

Durbin, whose letter was reported for the first time by the New York Times, described a meeting the day before the patel confirmation hearing where Bove said that Patel and Miller pushed layoffs to the FBI, as was already produced at the Ministry of Justice.

“The contemporary notes of this morning meeting are read:” KP wants a movement at the FBI, reciprocal actions for the doj “, wrote Durbin, an apparent reference to the initials of the patel.

In an article on social networks, Erika Knight, a spokesperson for the patel, did not directly address Durbin’s letter, but described what she described as a “false story”.

“Kash Patel is a highly qualified national security expert who has been fully transparent with the American people throughout this process and has demonstrated the integrity and leadership necessary for this role,” she wrote. “The Senate should confirm this without delay.”

Durbin noted that, during the Patel confirmation hearing on January 30, Senator Corey Booker, DN.J., asked the Patel if he was “aware of the plans or discussions to punish in any way that Is it, including termination, FBI agents or Trump’s investigative staff?

Patel replied that he was “not aware of this”. Patel then added: “I don’t know what’s going on right now, but I’m committed to you, the senator, and your colleagues that I will honor the internal examination process of the FBI.”

Patel also said at the hearing: “All FBI employees will be protected against political remuneration.”

The next day, the acting director of the FBI, Brian Driscoll, sent a note to the entire FBI market saying that he had received the order to withdraw eight senior executives from the FBI by Bove, who previously worked as a lawyer of Trump’s defense. Driscoll also said that he had been invited to put the names of each FBI employee involved in the survey on the rioters on January 6, a number that would have thousands of people.

Driscoll refused an order from the Ministry of Justice which he helps to dismiss the agents involved in the cases of riot of January 6, pushing so with force that some FBI officials feared that it be rejected, have declared several current officials and former FBI at NBC News.

Continuous fears of mass shots

The Trump administration also asked the offices and the FBI headquarters to justify the continuous employment of 3,600 office employees – approximately 10% of the FBI workforce – which joined the Bureau recently and as a result in Probation status.

The FBI Association Agents, a group that represents agents but is not a union, said that special agents in probation have already undergone in -depth training at the FBI Academy in Quantico. They say that the agents are already working on active surveys and that mass layoffs could disturb them.

In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Association Agents, said that hundreds of thousands of dollars were to form an agent, from their initial request to their quanto diploma.

Bara said the office must add 800 to 1,000 special agents each year to replace Withdrawal of special agents, so mass shots would have an impact on the desk for years.

“It makes no sense to turn around and shoot or reject the agents who have already followed this process”, “ Said Bara.

Thursday, the Senate judicial committee is expected to vote on the appointment of the patel. We do not know if the request for perjury of Durbin will have an impact on the Republican senators, who have so far Uniformly defended patel.

If its appointment is approved by the Committee, the full Senate will vote on the advisability of confirming a 4 -year mandate as director of the FBI.