Let’s start with what matters most: when a political activist is murdered on a college campus, the American people expect the FBI to move immediately. No delays. No distractions. Just action.
Now, there are serious allegations that in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk at a Utah university, the FBI’s elite shooting reconstruction team was delayed in getting to the scene — not because they weren’t ready, but because of a pilot shortage tied to FBI Director Kash Patel’s use of bureau aircraft.
According to Sen. Dick Durbin, a whistleblower told his office that FBI pilots who had flown Patel hit federally mandated flight-hour limits, triggering required FAA rest periods. That meant the team tasked with analyzing and reconstructing the shooting scene couldn’t deploy for at least a day. Reuters has reported it could not independently verify those claims. The FBI has strongly denied the allegations, with spokesperson Ben Williamson calling them “ridiculous” and saying Director Patel was on official travel at the time.
Here’s why this matters.
The FBI director is required, for security reasons, to travel on government aircraft, even for personal trips, and must reimburse the government at the cost of a commercial flight. That’s not new. What is new is the scrutiny over how frequently those planes are being used and whether those decisions are affecting operations.
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