Kash Patel Closes In on Confirmation Vote

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A Senate majority advanced Patelโ€™s nomination as FBI director, setting him up for a confirmation vote in just days.

The Senate has advanced Kash Patelโ€™s nomination for FBI director closer to a confirmation vote.

The chamber voted 48 to 45 on Feb. 18 to advance his nomination. A confirmation vote is expected to take place Thursday.

The FBI director position has a term of 10 years.

President Donald Trump, during his first administration, fired FBI Director James Comey against the backdrop of the FBIโ€™s Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the president and his associates, which started during Trumpโ€™s first presidential campaign in 2016.

Patel, who in 2017 was appointed senior counsel on counterterrorism for the House Intelligence Committee, was a critic of Crossfire Hurricane. Under the direction of then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who at that time chaired the committee, Patel led a congressional inquiry into federal law enforcementโ€™s investigation of alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

The resultant Nunes memo alleged that the FBI and Justice Department abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the course of its investigation. The findings โ€œrepresent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process,โ€ the memo said.

Patel went on to serve in multiple roles in the first Trump administration, including senior adviser to the acting director of national intelligence and chief of staff to the acting secretary of defense.

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray, another Trump appointee, resigned before the president took office in his second term. The agencyโ€™s acting director is Brian Driscoll.

Patel has faced scrutiny over his nomination for a top spot in the Trump administration, now almost a month old.

Three other nominees who faced heavy scrutinyโ€”Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as secretary of health and human services, Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, and Pete Hegseth as secretary of defenseโ€”have been confirmed, with Hegsethโ€™s confirmation requiring a tie-breaking vote in the Senate from Vice President JD Vance.

Patel had to answer tough questions from Democrats during a Jan. 30 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

โ€œThere will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director,โ€ Patel said when asked about his past statements on Wrayโ€™s wiretapping, which he had said might warrant prosecution.

Byย Nathan Worcester

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