Kash Patel
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
5 articles
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Three Agencies Miss House Oversight's April 27 Deadline on Missing Scientists Inquiry
The FBI, NASA, and the Department of Energy failed to provide the staff-level briefings the House Oversight Committee demanded by April 27 on at least 13 scientists with classified-access ties who have died or disappeared. NASA's spokesperson said the agency sees no national security threat; the FBI director said a report is coming "in short order."
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DOJ Charges Fort Bragg Soldier With Turning $33,034 Into $409,881 on Polymarket Using Classified Intel on the Operation That Captured Maduro
The Justice Department on Thursday unsealed a five-count indictment against Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, alleging he used classified knowledge of Operation Absolute Resolve—the military mission that captured Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on January 3—to win binary event contracts on Polymarket, then tried to erase his account and move the proceeds through a foreign crypto vault.
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House Oversight Demands FBI Briefing on Dead and Missing Scientists With Classified-Access Ties, Cites JPL, Los Alamos, MIT Cases
In an April 20 letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Chairmen James Comer (Oversight) and Eric Burlison request a staff-level briefing by April 27 on what the Bureau knows about at least ten U.S. scientists with ties to nuclear secrets or rocket technology who have died or disappeared 'in recent years.' The letter names three individuals — Michael David Hicks, Monica Reza, and retired Air Force Gen. William Neil McCasland — and points to an alleged professional link between two of them through an Air Force program on reusable space vehicles.
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FBI Director Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million over article alleging heavy drinking
Kashyap Patel filed a 19-count defamation complaint in federal court Monday, challenging The Atlantic's April 17 account of his FBI tenure and accusing the magazine of publishing with actual malice over the FBI's on-the-record denials.
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American journalist Shelly Kittleson freed in Iraq prisoner swap after week-long kidnapping
Kataib Hezbollah released the 49-year-old freelance journalist in exchange for six detained militia members, ending a week of captivity that began with a daylight abduction on a Baghdad street.