Kash Patel
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“This was a basic verification failure,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16
Patel continued his criticism of MS NOW on X after the network corrected its false report placing him in Russia.
“MS NOW put me in Russia based on two anonymous sources. I was in Virginia, honoring law enforcement at Liberty University. The network had to correct its false report,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16
Patel wrote on X Thursday calling out MS NOW for falsely reporting he had landed in Russia.
“This is bigger than a false story about me. The men and women of law enforcement deserve accurate reporting while they protect communities and take violent criminals off our streets. Three apologies are owed: to this FBI, to the law enforcement community, and to the American People.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16
Patel said three apologies were owed to the FBI, the law enforcement community, and the American people.
“They were wrong about my location, and they are wrong about the successes of this FBI and our partnership with State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement. If a network cannot confirm where I was before putting it on air, how can the public trust its reporting on the work our agents and officers do every day?”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16
Patel argued that MS NOW's failure to confirm his location undermines public trust in its reporting on FBI work.
“allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer's executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-13
Patel said in a statement that Alfozan allegedly concealed the device to capture sensitive communications about the company's AI product.
“So from last year to this year, we wanted to run that playbook for Summer Heat 2.0, and the only thing we did a little differently was we added even more bodies to the field,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel explained that Summer Heat 2.0 followed the prior year's playbook with additional personnel deployed to the field.
“That's 1.1 million fewer victims across the country because of what the federal government, the Bureau, and our partners were able to bring to bear across the country.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel attributed the reduction of 1.1 million victims to efforts by the federal government, the FBI, and partners.
“You have to talk to the American people. You have to show up in the field and you have to drive resources and permanently place people and technology in the field,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel described the FBI's approach to combating violent crime through permanent field placement of personnel and technology.
“Just to show you that it's working in every single city and major metropolis across the country, last year for the first time, America saw 1.1 million fewer violent aggravated assaults, rapes, robberies, and homicides,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel cited a decline of 1.1 million violent crimes as evidence the strategy is working across the country.
“So the enterprise-wide lift, shift, focus, and pivot was: we're not on defense anymore. In order to catch violent criminals and defend the homeland, you have to go on offense.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel said the FBI shifted from defense to offense to catch violent criminals and defend the homeland.
“The FBI's Most Wanted list and any other campaign we're putting on has been going on for at least 75 years. The career staff at the bureau manage that list. They look and say, 'Who's the target of opportunity? Who can we get? Who's the worst perpetrator who's been on the run?' and then they announce it. I literally don't have anything to do with it.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel told Fox News Digital that career staff independently manage the Most Wanted list and that he has no involvement in it.
“denigrate the work of the bureau,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel dismissed news reports that the FBI allegedly fudged its Most Wanted captures as attempts to denigrate the bureau's work.
“That was the sort of overarching approach to striking at the heart of violent crime.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel characterized the FBI's field-centric strategy as the overarching approach to striking at violent crime.
“Look, it's really simple,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel told Fox News Digital that the FBI's Most Wanted list has been managed by career staff for decades.
“I just think that those critics out there are super unpleased with the fact that the Trump administration and this FBI delivered on what used to be an apolitical mission of keeping law enforcement at the top and protecting our American citizens,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-02
Patel said critics are displeased that the Trump administration and FBI delivered on a law enforcement mission.
“did not want to punish victims of bestiality”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-19
Patel defended the FBI's new bestiality policy at a Senate judiciary committee oversight hearing.
“If you mess with our elections, the FBI will find you.”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-10
FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X warning that the FBI would find anyone who interferes with elections.
“Securing American elections from criminal interference is of the utmost importance to the FBI,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-10
FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X about securing American elections from criminal interference following the arrest of suspects in a ballot petition forgery scheme.
“We will offer any and all resources necessary to assist local authorities,”
Kash Patel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-03
FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the agency would offer resources to assist local authorities responding to the shooting.
“These arrests disrupted one of western Puerto Rico’s most violent drug‑trafficking organisations, dismantled its leadership and distribution networks, and cut off yet another key pipeline of dealt drugs flowing into our country,”
Kash Patel · said 2026-08-27 · reported 2026-08-27
FBI Director Kash Patel praised the large-scale arrests as a blow to drug trafficking into the US mainland.
“renewed mission to bring these predators to justice”
Kash Patel · said 2026-08-19 · reported 2026-08-20
Patel described the significance of Spitze's arrest and conviction for the FBI's mission.
“The FBI uncovered that Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, Co-Conspirator 2, and others conspired during the COVID-19 pandemic to defraud the United States after the National Institutes of Health terminated Co-Conspirator 1’s grant,”
Kash Patel · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19
Patel described the FBI's findings about the conspiracy in the same X post.
“NIH terminated the grant, 'Understanding the Risk of Bat coronavirus Emergence,' based on allegations that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, China. Mr. Morens and his co-conspirators then agreed in writing to intentionally hide their communications from public view by corresponding through Morens’s personal Gmail account rather than his official NIH email account,”
Kash Patel · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19
Patel detailed how NIH terminated the grant and how Morens and co-conspirators hid communications, in the same X post.
“After an FBI investigation with our DOJ partners, Dr. Fauci’s associate, David Morens, just pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to avoid FOIA requests and the Federal Records Act connected to COVID-19 research grants,”
Kash Patel · said 2026-08-18 · reported 2026-08-19
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Morens' guilty plea in a post on X.
“The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump— and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me,”
Kash Patel · said 2025-07-12 · reported 2025-07-11
Kash Patel addressed conspiracy theories and affirmed his commitment to remaining in his position.