Cash Patel, President Trump A candidate for the FBI leadership, and he was stated in his confirmation session after he was extracted in the president's amnesty on January 6.
“Do you think that America is safer because 1,600 people have given an opportunity to get out of their sentences and live in our societies again?” Deem. Senator Dick Dorbines Patel asked in a session on Thursday, and he pressed him on January 6 from rioters who assaulted police officers who reduced their rulings earlier this month.
Patel responded by referring to Biden's decision in the last hours of his presidency Leonard Peltier FreeThe far -left left -wing of murders in 1975 from two special agents of the Federal Investigation Office, Ronald Williams and Jacques Koler, who were shot in an exchange of fire in South Dakota.
“Senator, I did not look at all 1600 individual issues. “
Dozens of former FBI agents gather about Cash Patel confirmation: “Souls have been destroyed”
Dick Debine (left) and Federal Investigation Office, Cash Patel manager (right) (AP/Reuters)
“I have always defended the prison of those who cause law enforcement and civil societies. I also think that America is not safer because President Biden's mitigation of a man killed two FBI agents. A man of this empty point fired a gun at their heads and killed, they were released from prison .
Durbin responded by reducing the comparison between the riot of Peltire and January 6.
The main FBI changes that Cash Patel can make on the first day if it is confirmed as a director
The Senator Dorbin Durbin Chairman, Senator Dorbin, speaks during a hearing about the Senate Committee on the Capitol Hill, on Tuesday, 10 December 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiesfelbein)
Durbin replied, “Leonard Peltier was in prison for 45 years.” “80 years old, and he was sentenced to prison at home. So he is not free. I have just suggested. 1600 of these criminals defendants, many of whom have assaulted the capital?
Patel replied, “Senator, America will be safe when we do not have 200,000 doses of drugs within two years, America will be safe when we do not have 50 murders per day.”
Cash Patel, the former chief of staff, speaks to then Defense Minister Christopher Miller, during a campaign for the Republican election candidates (Brandon Bell/Getty Emime)
Conservatives and Patel supporters praised Patel for his response.
“Checking brutal reality”, political commentator and confirmation of 47 CEO Camine Kensey Posted on X.
In his opening statements, the Chairman of the Senate Committee Chuck Grassley said, “The public confidence in the FBI is low.”
“Only 41 % of the American public believes that the FBI is doing a good job. This is the lowest classification in a century.”
Grassley described Patel's experience as a general defender and in the Ministry of Justice, as well as his participation in the Permanent Mukhtar Committee in the House of Representatives in 2017 to investigate the assets of the Trump probe Russia.
Click here to get the Fox News app
Grassley said that Patel “managed to manage the intelligence and the great defense, identified and faced national security threats, and prosecuted and defended criminals.” “He did this during the fighting for transparency and accountability in the government,” giving him “exactly the qualifications we need at this time,” to head the office.
Patel's nomination has sparked early criticism from some Democrats before his confirmation session, who cited his previous promises to prosecute journalists and job officials in the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office that he sees that he is part of the “deep state”.
Breanne Deppisch from Fox News Digital contributed to this report
