Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] was born on February 25, 1980, [3] in Garden City, New York, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. [4] [5] His parents first moved to Canada in the early 1970s from Uganda in East Africa, where they were facing ethnic repression.[4] [6] Subsequently, they moved to the United States and his father started working as a …

1 day 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, Jan. 30, 2025.

1 day ago · How fierce Trump ally Kash Patel could help reshape the FBI or Justice Department (ABC News) The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump (The Atlantic) Kash Patel: The Magical Rise of a Self-Described ...

Dec 10, 2024 · The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during ...

Jan 30, 2025 · Patel has also described how he grew upset over the Justice Department's handling of the Benghazi case following the 2012 attack by Islamic militants, believing that "terrorists went free" despite ...

Jan 30, 2025 · 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.

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.

Jan 30, 2025 · Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick to run the F.B.I., repeatedly evaded the question of whether he would investigate officials on a published list of his perceived enemies during his ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Years before he was Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely...

Dec 2, 2024 · Democrats have warned for months that Donald Trump, if elected again, would bend the Justice Department to his own political will. But President Biden’s announcement Sunday that he had issued a...