New FBI boss appointed
“We will bring you to the route at every corner of this planet”
Updated on February 21, 2025 – 9:38 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
Kash Patel, a loyal Trump supporter, was confirmed by the US Senate as the new FBI director. Its appointment raises questions about the apolitical integrity of the FBI.
The controversial lawyer Kash Patel will lead the US federal police FBI in the future. The 44-year-old followed by US President Donald Trump was confirmed by the Senate in Washington on Thursday with 51 against 49 votes as a FBI director. Patel said in online service X that he was honored to take up the office.
The US citizens deserved “an FBI that is transparent, responsible and justified”, Patel wrote at X. “The politicization of our judicial system has undermined the trust of the public,” he said and added: “But that ends today . “
He described his mission as a FBI director with the words: “Let good police officers be-and restore confidence in the FBI.” He also addressed the warning to those who tried to “harm US citizens”: “We will bring them out in every corner of this planet.”
Patel’s predecessor Christopher Wray resigned immediately after Trump’s re -election. Trump nominated his loyal followers for the post. In the past, Patel had distributed right -wing conspiracy theories, contained contemporary about the FBI and threatened government employees and journalists with legal persecution.
In a hearing in the Senate at the end of January, however, the former federal prosecutor denied the Federal Police for retaliation to exploit political opponents. Under his administration, there will be “no debt enforcement actions,” he assured.
However, the Democratic Senator Dick Durbin warned of the vote on Thursday in the Senate that Patels confirmation as a FBI boss would mean a “disaster” for national security. In a speech in the Senate, Durbin later said that the 44-year-old repeatedly expressed his intention to “use the most important law enforcement agency in our nation to practice retaliation on his political enemies”.
Patel had put together a list of 60 “government gangsters” in a book published in 2023, including President Joe Biden, ex-Vice President Kamala Harris, then Minister of Justice Merrick Garland and former FBI bosses. He described the listed people as an agent of a “deep state”, who, according to a idea that is popular in the background in ultra -right circles, acts against Trump.
The compilation of names in the book was interpreted by many as a “enemy list”, which Patel rejected in his Senate hearing.
The son of Indian immigrants is considered a particularly eager Trump loyalist. During Trump’s first term (2017–21), Patel held high positions in the Security Council and Pentagon. His nomination had also met with criticism from some Republicans. In a letter to senators, more than 20 republican ex-ex-employees of the Security Authorities of Trump criticized the decision for Patel.
At the beginning of February, the great upheaval in the FBI vertebrae, which was apparently planned by Trump, also triggered. Several agents were dismissed, including civil servants who were involved in investigations into Trump for the influence of election.
Nine FBI agents filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice. They want to block their efforts to collect information about agents that were involved in the investigation against Trump and the storm of his supporters on the US capitol on January 6, 2021. In the lawsuit, the FBI employees stated that the collection of this information was part of a “political cleaning campaign”, which Trump staged as “politically motivated retaliation”.
On his first day in office, Trump pardoned more than 1,500 of those involved in the storm on the Capitol in Washington. The attack on the congress seat had been taken after Trump whipped his followers with the false assertion that his defeat against Biden in the presidential election in November 2020 had come about.
So far, the Senate has approved all of the cabinet members selected by Trump. Last week, for example, the controversial ex-MP Tulsi Gabbard, who has shown a lot of understanding for Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin in the past, and who had criticized NATO because of the Ukraine War, was confirmed as a national intelligence director.
The Senate also received the approval of the Senate, among other things because of his earlier false information about vaccinations about vaccinations, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
