Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator

Nancy Guthrie is also still missing….

I’m noticing a pattern here guys maybe this guy should be fired but I’m not 100% sure. Maybe pounding beers with the boys is how the FBI solves cases and I’m just being woke.

>Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower’s account newly provided to Congress.

>FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and the sources. The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account.
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According to the whistleblower’s account, Patel ordered that the Hostage Rescue Team be put on standby after learning of the shooting, which froze the use of the second plane by any other FBI team. FBI officials were confused by his order as numerous SWAT team agents in the nearest local field offices — in this case, Boston and New York — would ordinarily be called upon to provide immediate support, rather than the Quantico, Virginia-based Hostage Rescue Team.

>In the Dec. 13 shooting, a former Brown graduate student, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, entered a university classroom building, then killed two students and wounded nine others before fleeing the scene. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and former classmate of Valente’s was later shot and killed. After a five-day manhunt, police found Valente dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a storage unit.

>The FBI’s evidence response teams are known for specialized skills in mapping out a crime scene and collecting forensic evidence, and often use technical gear to help in gathering latent fingerprints and photographic clues. Agents who specialize in evidence collection are based in FBI field offices around the country, but specialists based in the Quantico unit that oversees evidence review and crime scene reconstruction are some of its most experienced veterans and often deploy in the case of a major crime scene or mass shooting.

>An FBI official familiar with Patel’s travel said he was using the jet that December weekend to visit his elderly parents, but declined to say where the parents lived due to security concerns.
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Durbin wrote that his letter served as a follow-up to one he sent in May requesting that the GAO conduct a comprehensive review of the Justice Department’s use of government-controlled aircraft by senior executives.

>“Since his confirmation as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel has seemingly engaged in what amounts to irresponsible joyriding on DOJ and FBI-operated aircraft at the expense of the American taxpayer and to the detriment of ongoing Bureau operations,” the senator wrote.

>“I request that the GAO’s ongoing review address the new information outlined below and that the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (DOJ OIG) investigate Director Patel’s misuse or mismanagement of government resources.”

>Durbin took note of Patel’s recent trip to Milan on an FBI jet, pointing out that FBI spokesperson Ben Williamson claimed that the director did not go to Italy “to hang out at the Olympics on the taxpayer dime.”

>“However,” Durbin noted, “by the Director’s own admission and video accounts, on February 22, 2026, he celebrated with the gold medal-winning U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team after their victory.”

>The Milan trip occurred on the same weekend an armed intruder attempted to breach President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, Durbin noted.

>While the FBI director is required to fly privately for security reasons, “personal leisure activities and travel bucket list should not dictate work travel, nor should it have a material impact on the Bureau’s time-sensitive operations and investigations,” Durbin wrote.

>Durbin said a “credible source” told Senate staffers that during a meeting last year, Patel told FBI field office personnel: “If you have golf, hockey, fishing, or hunting and beautiful sights, you’re going to see a lot of me.”

>The senator added that Patel’s “frequent and unapologetic use of DOJ or FBI-controlled aircraft for personal travel raises concerns about whether he is complying with applicable regulations and reimbursement requirements for non-mission-related travel and whether the Department has sufficient internal controls to track and enforce those obligations.”

>Durbin also said the whistleblower account makes clear that Patel’s travel has “materially harm(ed) the mission of the very agency he has sworn to lead. As federal law enforcement is navigating multiple crises — including Americans facing significant danger after a prominent cartel leader was killed in Mexico — the FBI cannot afford to have its resources further stretched by a Director who views its staff and aircraft as a means to support his jet-setting lifestyle.”

FBI hates him lol, there are so many leaks. It’s a clown show and he’s just being a make a wish kid until the headlines get too much and he walks away

Ya don’t say

Look on one hand we could be stopping criminals

On the other

Kash can live out a dream of his.

This dude said he wanted to turn the FBI building into a museum of the deep state. Instead he became a walking museum of the deep state.

“According to the whistleblower’s account, Patel ordered that the Hostage Rescue Team be put on standby after learning of the shooting, which froze the use of the second plane by any other FBI team. FBI officials were confused by his order as numerous SWAT team agents in the nearest local field offices — in this case, Boston and New York — would ordinarily be called upon to provide immediate support, rather than the Quantico, Virginia-based Hostage Rescue Team.”

God … these people are just fucking idiots. What else do you expect putting a complete moron who has zero law enforcement experience in charge.

Let this one go. It’s a trap. Focus on the bigger picture.

This little goblin is partying like there’s no tomorrow. Maybe he knows he’s in for nothing but hell when this is all over.

This guy, fucking around, delaying actual work. I just read that Kristi Noem called off support vehicles looking for a man overboard on a Coast Guard ship because she wanted the vehicles for a content shoot. Guardsman never found.

Before 2025 I did not know what the word “kakistocracy” meant. Sadly, every day now present another perfect moment to be the image never to the dictionary definition.

You know what’s sad? I don’t even remember this mass shooting.

Anyone else would have been canned by now. This administration and cabinet is a shit show

This guy’s lone qualification for becoming the FBI Director was writing a series of children’s books through the lens of MAGA. I wish I were kidding.

Kash loves to jet set with his girlfriend too. Hard at work.

It’s interesting that the headline would likely be true and sensical in the Fallout universe too – Jet seems like it would get a lot of use from Mr Patel there. 

I’d like to be the next Director of the FBI. So I am proposing maybe we don’t take a private jet for personal trips. So let’s like start there….

The FBI has one mission and that is to enable trump and Epstein. They don’t care about anything else. Nothing.

That’s a good reason to fire him.

If anyone’s wondering which mass shooting this is about, it was Brown University last December.

Why did the hockey team even want to party with this ass! They are that fucking maga?

Well hell, the answer to that would be to buy another jet, just ask Noem.