Overview
- MS NOW reports, citing three anonymous sources, that FBI Director Kash Patel ordered agents protecting his girlfriend to escort her allegedly inebriated friend home on more than one occasion in Nashville.
- An FBI spokesperson rejected the account, saying, “This is made up and did not happen,” after agents were described as objecting to being diverted from their assignment.
- Reporting notes Patel directed a separate protective team for his girlfriend, composed of SWAT-qualified personnel in the Nashville area, which former officials called unprecedented and a misuse of resources.
- Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino continued a public defense of their tenure this week, touting reforms such as moving personnel from Washington to field offices, launching a counter-drone school, deploying AI tools, streamlining FOIA, cutting spending, and claiming record arrests and seizures.
- Patel denied a widely circulated dossier anecdote that he refused to leave an FBI plane without a fitted raid jacket, and he separately detailed to Just the News how new leadership and investigative steps led to the arrest of the Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect while criticizing prior FBI management.