An FBI shooting reconstruction team was delayed in its response to the mass shooting at Brown University in December due to FBI Director Kash Patel's "poor management" of FBI aircraft, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said on Tuesday Feb. 24, citing what he regarded as "credible information from a whistleblower."
The account drew criticism from FBI spokesman Ben Williamson, who called it a "false and a ridiculous story" in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Durbin, a Democrat representing Illinois, asserted that Patel unnecessarily put the FBI's hostage rescue unit on standby, which reserved an FBI plane for the specialized counterterrorism unit. That move meant that the reconstruction team could not use that same aviation asset to travel more swiftly from Virginia to carry out its responsibilities at the shooting scene in Providence.
"The whistleblower described how the team had to drive from Quantico, Virginia, to Providence, Rhode Island, overnight during a winter storm to reach the scene by 9:00 a.m. the following...
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