GOP senator Chuck Grassley wrote that he believes whoever leads the bureau must ‘chart a new course.’
A leading Republican senator who is in line to become the Senate Judiciary chairman said that President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the FBI, former national security official Kash Patel, must restore Americans’ confidence in the federal law enforcement bureau.
On Saturday evening, Trump announced nomination of Patel, who has backed the president-elect’s assertions about how government officials weaponized agencies against his administration.
The senator said current FBI Director Christopher Wray, named by Trump in 2017 to a standard 10-year term, “has failed at fundamental duties” and that anyone who leads the agency has to “chart a new course” for transparency and accountability.
Trump’s nomination of Patel means Wray must either resign or be fired after Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025. There has…
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