Whistleblower documents released by Sen. Dick Durbin on Tuesday allege that agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were delayed in arriving to the scenes of several major, headline-grabbing crime scenes recently due to FBI Director Kash Patel’s prolific use of the bureau’s private jets.
Durbin said in a statement the documents were provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee after Patel used the FBI’s aircraft to travel to Milan over the weekend to attend meetings with U.S. personnel assisting with Olympic security and attend the men’s hockey final, which the U.S. won 2-1 in an overtime thriller.
“Since his confirmation as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 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,” Durbin, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in the statement.
In a letter sent to the Government Accountability Office and Justice Department’s inspector general on Tuesday, Durbin said Patel’s use of the agency’s jets left the FBI’s evidence response team without adequate transportation to the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December.
According to the whistleblower, Patel had acquired one of the agency’s two available aircrafts to travel to south Florida and held the other plane for a team not normally required to respond to the scene. Another team was also a...
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