All posts tagged "Kash Patel"

Federal agents have arrested a man accused of threatening to kill FBI Director Kash Patel, and Patel wasn't his only alleged target.

Anthony Daniel Palazzolo of Chesterfield Township, Michigan, is accused of vowing in one message to show up at an FBI office and use “deadly force” against government officials, The Daily Mail reported Saturday, citing a newly unsealed criminal complaint.

Palazzolo was arrested Friday and appeared that day in federal court in Detroit, where he faces a felony count of transmitting threatening interstate communications. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison....

A federal investigator's courtroom testimony cast an unflattering new light on the Trump administration's prosecution of two former FBI officials.

FBI agent Bryan Witt acknowledged in federal court on Tuesday that the case against ex-FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides was commonly regarded inside his office as a "witch hunt," Politico reported.

Floris' attorney Margaret Donovan asked Witt whether he had ever used that phrase to describe the case. Witt said he could not remember doing so but conceded that some of his coworkers may have....

Following a briefing in June 2025 to inform President Donald Trump that his name was in the Epstein files, the Department of Justice and the FBI quietly issued a joint memo that shook the administration to its foundation.

Now Raw Story can reveal that the White House was directly involved in crafting that memo, which sought to close the book on the scandal surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by claiming an FBI review uncovered no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” and that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”

The memo’s release in July 2025 triggered a tsunami of backlash, including from Trump's MAGA base, with many outraged supporters calling for the firing of then-Attorney General Pam Bondi. The president himself remained relatively insulated from criticism at the time....

FBI Director Kash Patel's planned trip abroad has two top lawmakers and some of his own agents fearing for the nation's secrets.

Patel is reportedly set to travel to Russia as soon as next week, roughly three weeks before the midterm elections, The Atlantic reported Friday. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, have sent Patel a letter urging him to scrap the visit over concerns he can't be trusted to protect sensitive information.

"As Director of the FBI, you possess information that would be highly valuable to America's adversaries," the lawmakers wrote, per The Atlantic. "Unfortunately, your affinity for the Russian government does not inspire confidence that you will be able to effectively safeguard those secrets."...

FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered up a classified internal report examining what the bureau calls past institutional "failures," a document now bearing his own name that insiders worry is less about accountability and more about shaping the bureau's history to suit the president's narrative.

An internal FBI memo obtained by MS NOW describes the so-called "Patel Report" as an effort to "promote fierce organizational accountability and rebuilding public trust" by revisiting "different chapters" in the bureau's past.

Three current and former FBI officials, speaking anonymously to discuss internal matters, told MS NOW they don't yet know the report's specific contents, but expect it to touch on politically charged territory for Trump, including the original Russia investigation and the special counsel probes into classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election....

Two FBI counterterrorism chiefs were demoted over the pace of their probe into alleged threats to the wife of top White House aide Stephen Miller.

Bloomberg Law reported on Saturday that the head of the FBI Washington Field Office's counterterrorism division and his deputy were stripped of their posts Friday and sent to bureau headquarters. Bloomberg Law cited three people familiar with the matter.

The officials were identified as Special Agent in Charge Michael Burgwald and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Courtland Rae. Their division is responsible for threats tied to the Middle East....