Patel Won’t Rule Out FBI at the Polls on Election Day
Patel said agents would only enter polling sites if a law violation occurs, after senators pressed him on FBI presence at the midterm vote.
- On Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, refusing to commit to keeping federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections.
- Amid President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the 2020 election was "Rigged," Democrats sought assurances that federal officials would follow the law, which carries a potential five-year prison sentence for violations.
- Senator Peter Welch pressed Patel during the hearing, prompting the FBI director to state: "On election day, the FBI will follow the law. If there's a reason to go there because there's been a violation of the law, we will."
- Election crimes coordinators are stationed across all 56 FBI field offices, Patel confirmed, maintaining that agents will respond to potential legal violations on Election Day.
- Controversial hiring standard changes also drew scrutiny, with Patel defending the removal of automatic disqualifications for theft or bestiality, asserting the agency did not want to "punish victims of bestiality.
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Patel won’t rule out FBI at the polls on Election Day
FBI Director Kash Patel refused to say whether agents would be present at the polls during the midterm elections in a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Tuesday. The comments came as members from both parties questioned Patel over issues ranging from elections to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and a bizarre exchange over bestiality […]
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Patel Tries To End Hearing To Evade Schiff’s Questions, Says FBI Agents Will Be Deployed At Polling Stations
The Daily reports: In my decades of covering congressional hearings, I have never seen a witness try to end their own hearing because they didn’t want to answer a question. That is what Kash Patel did at a Senate FBI oversight hearing on Tuesday. Sen. Schiff tried to get an answer out of Patel on … The post Patel Tries To End Hearing To Evade Schiff’s Questions, Says FBI Agents Will Be Deployed At Polling Stations appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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