FBI Director Kash Patel’s “irresponsible joyriding” on FBI jets might be headed for a tailspin.
On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for a probe into Patel after a credible whistleblower said that Patel’s “excessive misuse” of the bureau’s aircraft has led to delays with the agency responding to high-profile emergencies, like the Brown University shooting and Charlie Kirk’s assassination last year.
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Durbin made a point to note that the whistleblower provided the information after Patel used the FBI’s Gulfstream jet to fly to Milan, Italy to chug beer with the U.S. men’s hockey team and create pretty unsavory social media content at the Winter Olympics.
In regard to Kirk’s death during an event at Utah Valley University in September 2025, the whistleblower alleges that the FBI’s shooting reconstruction team was delayed by at least a day because there was a pilot and plane shortage “caused by the Director’s personal flights,” according to Durbin.
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