New controversies have hit FBI Director Kash Patel, accusing him of spending FBI resources on personal trips.
FBI Director Kash Patel is unfazed by new controversy over his past travels, where he allegedly mixed business with pleasure on FBI money. A new report claimed that when Patel took a duty tour through the South Pacific last summer, he stopped in Hawaii and went for a VIP dive at one of the military’s most secret sites — the underwater grave of the USS Arizona that houses the remains of more than 900 Navy sailors who died at Pearl Harbor.Patel swam near the cemetery for 30 minutes, according to Navy records. There were nine people, besides Patel, diving.VIP tours near Arizona are common, but there is no public record available on how many VIPs are allowed to dive. They were also asked not to touch the sinking ship in any way.Senior regional leaders hosted Patel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam “as they typically do with U.S. government officials on official trips,” the FBI said.
The spokesman said that the visit to Pearl Harbor “was part of the Director’s meetings on general national security last August with his counterparts in New Zealand, Australia, our field office in Honolulu, and the War Department.”“It’s like having a bachelor party in a church. It’s sacred ground,” Huck Albertson, a Marine veteran, told the AP. “It should be treated with the seriousness it deserves.”Now another private trip of Patel’s has been reported as Patel went to Philadelphia to attend a country music concert with his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins.
They arrived on a Gulfstream V government jet and were spotted in a private suite that had been rented for more than $35,000. They watched the show from their private suite. The New York Times said FBI spokesman Ben Williamson said Winkins was an invited guest for the event.Patel appears unfazed by the onslaught of controversy and the torrent of rumors that he has upset President Trump. The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted about the agency’s success in bringing Muhammad Baqir Saad Daoud al-Saadi, an Iraqi terrorist, to the United States to face justice.