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Patel details recent fentanyl and cartel operations, credits interagency seizures; cites need for foreign and domestic focus
Summary
FBI Director Kesh Patel highlighted recent seizures and enforcement actions against fentanyl traffickers and cartel figures, described expanded Southwest Border intelligence efforts, and urged an all‑of‑government push to target precursor chemicals and foreign production.
Director Kesh Patel told the House Appropriations Subcommittee the FBI and partners have made sizable narcotics seizures and arrests in recent months and described an expanded counter‑cartel posture that includes domestic field deployments and overseas actions.
Patel described multiple recent operations and statistics during his opening remarks and in response to members' questions. He said FBI operations had seized 6 kilograms of fentanyl in Kentucky in a recent case that "constitutes an amount of fentanyl that can kill half a million Americans" and that over the last three months the FBI had seized…
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