Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] was born on February 25, 1980, [4] in Garden City, New York, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. [5] [6] His parents first moved to Canada in the early 1970s from Uganda in East Africa, where they were facing ethnic repression.[5] [7] Subsequently, they moved to the United States and his father started working as a …

10 hours ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of agents at the bureau. The letter Tuesday from Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

8 hours ago · Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's choice to be director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday ...

9 hours ago · During Patel’s Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 30, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., asked the FBI director nominee if he was aware of plans to punish or terminate FBI personnel associated with ...

1 day ago · The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday accused FBI director nominee Kash Patel of acting behind the scenes to direct a “purge” of career officials at the agency, adding ...

15 hours ago · The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday accused Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for F.B.I. director, of improperly directing a wave of firings at the bureau without ...

10 hours ago · The day after Patel's hearing, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove fired eight senior career FBI officials and ordered the FBI's Acting Director Brian Driscoll to hand over a list of every ...

14 hours ago · “I am ready to vote for Kash Patel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told CBS News Sunday, while Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said in December the FBI nominee is “the real deal.” (Both serve on ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Kash Patel is an American lawyer and government official who was selected by Pres. Donald Trump to serve as director of the FBI in his second administration. Patel held several posts during Trump’s first term (2017–21). He is especially known for claiming the existence of a ‘deep state’ in the U.S. government.

Dec 2, 2024 · Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI and an ardent supporter of the president-elect, has vowed to help dismantle the same organization he’s poised to lead.