Kash Patel may have flouted legal constraints and the FBI’s disciplinary code in prematurely divulging arrests in an alleged plot to attack this month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, bureau veterans have alleged.
The FBI director was accused of “jumping the gun” by posting details on social media of five arrests in an investigation carried out in conjunction with the Secret Service.
It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it. There is a general prohibition against publicising information related to sealed cases while the order remains in force, under US federal law. Although exceptions exist allowing for revealing their contents, formal court authorization would be needed to do so. Patel has previously invoked court orders sealing grand jury testimony as justification for the FBI’s inability to release many of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.
31 Comments
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 36d
Maybe putting raging alcoholics in charge of major government agencies wasn't such a great idea.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 36d
Hegseth ?
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Which alcoholic loser again?
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
And yet it makes everything funnier.
paranoid@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 36d
It'd be funny if it weren't so damn sad
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 34d
If your goal is sabotage, it is a great idea.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 36d
This is 100% going to be one of those things where undercovers bullied someone into going along with a plan or even just being reasonably aware of a plan but not snitching.
It's just way more likely they invented a threat than they stopped a legitimate one.
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 36d
Yep, first thought was ‘three undercovers and two informants got rounded up which is why no identifying details will be shared.’
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 36d
The attackers showed up days after the event. That’s not much of an attack.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Lol, like the WKUK civil war episodes where they keep showing up late after battles
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
Or just found someone mentally ill or disabled enough to exploit. Status quo.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d
As much as it sucks, yeah, that was implied.
Even just for minor drug deals, Undercovers target children with learning disabilities because they're often the most trusting.
Once they have them for a minor buy, they'll send them straight to real dealers wearing a wire.
Like you said, status quo
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 36d
If there's no doubt that he DID publicly publish nonpublic details of an ongoing investigation, there's no doubt that he broke the law and FBI rules either.
Stating one with certainty and "alleging" the other is the equivalent of saying "man who without a doubt murdered his neighbor might have broken the law, former prosecutor opines"
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 36d
News reporting is such shit now
Astronut@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 36d
If I had a dog with a face like his I’d shave its ass and make it walk backwards!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 36d
There's no contradiction here. Everyone should move along.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 36d
I saw his ugly face and automatically read "draws a flask"
lemmylump@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d
This is the most normal looking photo I have ever seen of this pile of shit with goggly eyes.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 36d
He really does look like there is just NOTHING going on in that head. Just a moth dawdling around in there that occasionally bumps into a nerve and makes him move and talk.
Indian people everywhere must be so pissed at him for how profoundly stupid he is on a global level.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 36d
Until Mamdani, there just haven't been any decent Indian American politicians.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 33d
Ro Khanna's all right.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
0.0 - Krashout Patel's resting face
a_postmodern_hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d
Every photo of Kash Patel looks like it’s from an Onion story where he has slowly backed into the folded arms of a looming, muscular henchman who is only visible from the neck down
naught101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
He's literally just Tom from Parks and Recreation
Rothe@piefed.social · 11 pts · 36d
Tom proved to actually have a heart. This guy is empty all the way through.
jaaake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d
Cause they're both smaller Indian guys! I get it!
naught101@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 36d
Because Tom's an obsessive self-promoter who never does any real work
jaaake@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
I mean sure, that's another barely important commonality, but there's about a billion other and more prominent issues with Kash Patel that have nothing to do with Tom Haverford.
Kittywifclaws@piefed.world · 1 pts · 36d
Someone’s gonna Bondi him right out the door after he answers a few questions.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d
If the goal was to make himself look good, it didn't work. He still looks like a snivelling asshole.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 36d
Probably wanted to click on Cancel but clicked on Release because his eyes were battling that day.