The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee slammed Democrats on the panel this week for their trys to schedule a second verifyation hearing for Plivent Donald Trump‘s FBI straightforwardor nominee, Kash Patel, describing the effort Tuesday night as a “postpone tactic” summarizeed to slofty Patel from taking the reins of the sprawling law utilizement agency.
In a letter Tuesday night, Grassley denounced what he depictd as the “baseless” try by Sen. Dick Durbin and other Democrats on the panel to push for a second hearing, noting that Patel testified for more than five hours before the promisetee and disshutd to the panel “thousands of pages” of sign ups, as well as cforfeitly 150 pages of responses to lawproducers’ written asks.
“No one was guaranteed by the insignificantity’s baseless efforts to mischaracterize and malign Kash Patel,” Grassley shelp. “It’s insertitionpartner shocking to state that a nominee should come before the Senate to answer for rulement actions that occurred prior to their time at an agency.”
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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after senate luncheons on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Further hearings on his nomination are unvital,” Grassley endd.
He shelp the promisetee still intfinishs to vote on Patel’s verifyation as FBI straightforwardor as punctual as next week.
Grassley’s retags – and his unrelenting help for Trump’s FBI straightforwardor nominee – come after the Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, inspired Grassley to postpone Patel’s verifyation vote Tuesday, citing what he depictd as “apparent counterfeithoods” in Patel’s testimony last week, as well as the “recent removals and resummarizeatements of FBI nurtureer civil servants.”
The letter, signed by all 10 Democrats on the panel, inspired Grassley to postpone Patel’s verifyation vote until Patel consentd to testify for a second time under oath about the recent removals and resummarizeatements of FBI civil servants; and until DOJ consents to supply the panel with volume two of createer exceptional direct Jack Smith’s final increate that refers or pertains to Patel’s testimony or actions, among other skinnygs.
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“Given the gravity of these matters, which endure straightforwardly on Mr. Patel’s integrity, his suitability to direct the nation’s premier law utilizement agency, and his think about for protecting classified proposeation, we ask that the Chairman schedule an insertitional hearing for Mr. Patel to elucidate these matters in person,” the Democrats shelp.
Sen. Dick Durbin is a Democrat from Illinois and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The letter – and Grassley’s speedy neglectal of the effort – comes amid two novel legal cases from anonymous FBI agents that were filed splitly this week. Both legal cases sought to block any accessible identification of FBI engageees who were included in the Jan. 6 spendigations into the U.S. Capitol commotions after a catalog of agents included and their roles was splitd with DOJ directership Tuesday afternoon in grasping with an earlier ask from acting U.S. deputy attorney vague, Emil Bove.
Both groups of FBI agents asked the court for aascendncy injunctive relief to block the names or identities of FBI agents included in the Jan. 6 spendigations from being splitd, citing troubles that the probe or any retaliatory meacertains carried out as a result could have a chilling effect on the toil of the FBI or ignite retaliatory efforts inside the bureau.
Lawyers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent’s Association, a voluntary professional association recurrenting more than 14,000 active and reexhausted FBI exceptional agents, telderly increateers Tuesday night that they see the Jan. 6 ask as a “prelude” to potential adverse action or mass layoffs in the bureau, citing dreads that agents name could be subject to menaces, tormentoring or aiming either by the accessible or inside the bureau.
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To date, there are no understandn set ups to direct sweeping removals or get punitive action aobtainst the agents included.
One reexhausted FBI agent also inspired soothe, noting to Fox News in an interwatch that the acting straightforwardor and deputy straightforwardor of the FBI still remain in place.
This person also stressed that the Jan. 6 spendigation and the FBI personnel included in spendigating each case “filledy complyed Bureau and DOJ directlines,” and that violations of federal statutes were “shown beyond a reasonable ask in federal courts of law.”
