Patel is a controversial nominee, having long raged against the so-called Deep State and prioritized his loyalty to Trump.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel, claimed during his confirmation hearing on Thursday that he had never heard of a right-wing conspiracy theorist – before being reminded that he's appeared on his show eight times.

(CNN) — At least five senior FBI leaders who were promoted by former Director Christopher Wray have been notified they are being demoted or reassigned, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.

Senator Hawley raised the bureau’s targeting of traditionalist Catholics, school board meeting protesters, and pro-life activists.

Kash Patel has hawked a sketchy supplement to undo the effects of the COVID vaccine, promoted the QAnon cult and promised to go after Trump’s critics.

Patel, like Trump, has taken a different view, saying the rioters have been mistreated by the criminal justice system. A former federal public defender and prosecutor, he has called them “political prisoners” and offered on at least one occasion to represent them for free.

Democrats directed some of their energy during attorney general nominee Pam Bondi’s confirmation hearing toward publicly disavowing Kash Patel.

Kash Patel, a one-time aide to President Donald Trump, will inch closer to leading the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when he sits for his US Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a former Department of Defence (DoD) chief of staff,

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI ... Patel was picked in November to replace Christopher Wray, who led the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency for more than seven years but was forced out of the job Trump had ...

President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, is portraying himself to senators as the right leader of a law enforcement agency he says has lost public trust

I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement,' Kash Patel says - Anadolu Ajansı