Home FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to ‘Examine Worldwide Threats’ in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Photo credit: Andrew Thomas – CNP / MEGA FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to ‘Examine Worldwide Threats’ in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Photo credit: Andrew Thomas - CNP / MEGA

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing to ‘Examine Worldwide Threats’ in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Photo credit: Andrew Thomas – CNP / MEGA

FBI Director Kash Patel arrives at the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 6, 2026. Photo credit: ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA
UNITED STATES – DECEMBER 4: Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, conduct a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday, December 4, 2025, announcing the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices on January 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)