PROVIDENCE, RI — A whistleblower claims agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of the Brown University mass shooting because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, MS Now reported.
"FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and (three) sources," per the MS Now story. "The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account."
An FBI spokesperson disputed the allegation, according to MS Now.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-IL, provided information from the whistleblower in a letter to the Government Accountability Office, according to a media release from the senator's office.
"These disclosures were provided after Patel was spotted celebrating with the U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team shortly after their win over Canada in the gold medal game," the release said
"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 wrote, according to the release....
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