Kash Patel touts surging FBI recruits amid mounting criticism

This week after a Senate Judicial Committee hearing from the democrats during the hearing of the Democrats, FBI Director Kash Patel challenged the country’s leading investigation agency “proud of” proud of “.

Speaking with journalists after the hearing, Patel confirmed the role of the Senate in late February, Patel, the agency “FBI in the history of FBI agents and Intel analysts to be the most applicant to be” launched historical recruitment efforts.

One of the biggest criticisms of democratic senators during the hearing was that the conservative leader Charlie Kirk initially claimed the murderer on social media.

Patel admitted that he could better express his social media post, but did not regret it for transparency.

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Speaking after the hearing, Patel said, “The American people see and hear what the FBI is doing daily, crushes violent crimes and defends the homeland.”

“Therefore, I am proud to be the director of FBI, who sees the most important, wide application pool in history,” he said.

At the opening of the committee, Patel listed a number of successes, including President Donald Trump’s tens of thousands of arrests, reorganizing the agency and impacting illegal drugs.

Patel accepted the increasing criticism on the FBI direction and the deputies on the panel “I don’t go anywhere” and “If you want to criticize my 16 -year service, please bring it,” he challenged.

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FBI Director Kash Patel opened his testimony to the Senate Judicial Committee and made an update about the investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk while investigating the case. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Patel was also examined on a wave of fire in the FBI, some of which claimed to have been politically motivated.

Sort member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Criticizing Patel’s love for Trump, the director established “maga loyalty” to key positions, including polygraph tests, including internal “loyalty tests”, he said. Durbin claimed that some FBI officials who failed these tests should be waived to continue working at the Bureau.

Durbin also said that Patel has little experience in working for law enforcement officers, calls his inexperience as “amazing”, and accused him of quickly monitoring non -qualified recruitment to fill the FBI’s open jobs.

Patel also, FBI field agents as a part of the standards of physical conformity, because you want to make the prank. Mazie Hirono grilled by D-Hawaii.

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You. Cory Booker, DN.J., on September 16, 2025, questioning Patel at the Senate Judicial Committee hearing. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)

Hirono expressed his concerns that female agents may be negatively affected by the need for clamping, “There are concerns about whether such hard Pull-ups are really necessary for FBI agents.”

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Patel replied, “If you chase a bad man, forgive and put him in handcuffs, you should make a traction.”

Especially in a tense stock market, you. Cory Booker, Dn.J., Patel, “I think you won’t take a long time” and “This is your last supervision, because you are not loyal to people, not to the Constitution of the United States, but as the first period of Donald Trump shows us.

Patel withdrew Booker’s “wrong information rent did not bring this country together”, before adding, “This is not my time.”

Fox News Digital’s Jasmine Baehr, Ashley Oliver and Alex Miller contributed to this report.