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Senate Judiciary Committee holds over Kash Patel FBI nomination amid questions about Jan. 6 involvement; adopts committee rules
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee exercised a hold on the nomination of Kash Patel to be director of the FBI while adopting routine administrative measures by voice vote; senators raised questions about Patel’s testimony, alleged ties to a January 6 recording and his assertion of the Fifth Amendment.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on an abbreviated markup session held over the nomination of Kash Patel to be director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and adopted three routine administrative items by voice vote.
Senator Dick Durbin, the committee’s ranking member, said Patel’s 10-year nomination merits extra scrutiny and described testimony and public remarks he said raised questions about Patel’s judgment and honesty. “To give the most sweeping investigative agency in the United States and the world over to this man to settle political scores is something we’re going to regret,” Durbin said.
Durbin and several Democratic senators highlighted two related concerns: statements and media appearances in which Patel discussed a recording tied to January 6 defendants, and his assertion of Fifth Amendment…
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