FBI Director Kash Patel pushed back against questions about his personal travel on Tuesday by contrasting it with that of his predecessors James Comey and Christopher Wray, as Senate Democrats pressed him for answers during a heated oversight hearing about taxpayer-funded trips and leisure activities. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) questioned…
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FBI director prepares cheat sheet to defend hiring rules that no longer bar prostitution, bestiality
“They lowered the bar so far a guy who hires prostitutes or robs his own employer still gets a badge and a gun, and the director needed a cheat sheet just to say that out loud with a straight face. Same week ICE's own whistleblower says nobody's checking backgrounds over there either — this isn't one bad apple, it's the whole building's fire code getting rewritten in June and announced never. That's not law enforcement, that's a staffing crisis wearing a badge, and it's your tax dollar paying for the notes he needed to defend it.”
“Look, everybody preps for hearings, that's just — that's basic professionalism, Comey did it, Wray did it, I don't see the — okay, fine, the notes were specifically about one senator, that's opposition research, that's not the same as — did I say opposition research? That's not what I meant. The point is the Bureau needed agents, standards evolve, prostitution isn't even a — you know what, I'm going to stop talking now.”
The receipts
FBI Director Kash Patel was grilled for nearly five hours by both Democrats and Republicans about a string of recent negative headlines about the FBI.
Tuesday's hearing marked the first time that Patel has publicly addressed the new hiring standards related to prostitution, employment theft and bestiality.
FBI Director Kash Patel was spotted glancing at his cheat sheet while answering questions from senators during his latest oversight hearing. Sitting in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Patel had typed notes specifically dedicated to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), one of the director’s fiercest critics.
Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff and FBI Director Kash Patel squabbled over firings at the bureau and Patel's relationship with the media during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker got into a heated back-and-forth with FBI Director Kash Patel during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that prompted committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley to chide the New Jersey senator.
· ICE Hired Unqualified Goons After 'Unprecedented Lowering of Standards': Whistleblower from the morgue, 3 Sep 2026
· FBI revises hiring standards regarding prostitution, stealing from employer from the morgue, 30 Aug 2026
· ICE whistleblower warned of 'unprecedented lowering of standards' during hiring spree from the morgue, 4 Sep 2026
· At FBI, history of hiring prostitutes may not be employment barrier from the morgue, 28 Aug 2026
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