“I have no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards,” Patel said at a contentious Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing at which support for the nominee broke ...

Learn more details about Patel’s background below. Who Are Kash Patel’s Parents? Patel’s mother and father are Indian Gujarati immigrants who moved to Canada in the 1970s from Uganda ...

On this, Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, falls short. While some senators may disagree about whether Patel has sufficient experience to manage the Bureau’s 38,000 employees ...

Mr Patel said any FBI investigations during his tenure would be based on a factual and legal basis. “There will be no politicisation at the FBI,” Mr Patel said. “There will be no retributive ...

In the hours he spent in the room before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he repeatedly insisted that he had no ... Patel is not the only nominee to feel the need to obfuscate his background.

So far, no Republicans have publicly stated their opposition to Patel’s nomination, and none raised concerns at the hearing. Democratic senators grilled Patel throughout the day, but he claimed ...

But the Patel who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee today sounded very different from the man who made those remarks. “I have no interest, no desire, and will not, If confirmed ...