A whistleblower alleged that without an available plane to fly to Providence from Quantico, Virginia after the Dec. 13 mass shooting, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had to drive to Rhode Island overnight through a winter storm to process evidence at 9 a.m. the next day.
In a Feb. 24 letter sent to the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) accused FBI Director Kash Patel of mismanaging government resources in multiple instances, including the mass shooting at Brown, citing multiple “credible whistleblower disclosures.”
According to the letter, Patel placed the Hostage Rescue Team — a specialized counterterrorism unit — on standby to respond to the shooting, which froze the use of available FBI jets for other teams. Durbin, who is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on the DOJ OIG to open an investigation into Patel’s alleged resource mismanagement or misuse — a topic that has come into the spotlight following videos and photos posted online of Patel celebrating the U.S. men’s hockey team’s Olympic win in Italy.
According to MS NOW, Patel allegedly was in Florida on Dec. 13, after using a private jet to visit family, and flew back to Washington the day after.
Patel’s “potential misuse of an FBI jet during a time when it should have been all hands on deck reflects a troubling pattern of abusing taxpayer funds and poor judgment that has real consequences,...
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