Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator

6 months ago by Tony Bark to c/news

Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower’s account newly provided to Congress.

FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and the sources. The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account..

An FBI spokesperson told MS NOW Tuesday he disputed the allegation that there were delays because of the director’s travels but said he would check into the matter more deeply to gather information.

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dhork 65 points 6 months ago

Couldn't they have flown commercial?

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tanisnikana 41 points 6 months ago

Couldn’t they have not gone at all?

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tanisnikana 37 points 6 months ago

Couldn’t they have been tried and sentenced?

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tanisnikana 22 points 6 months ago

Couldn’t they have left a suicide note detailing the crimes of the rest of the administration?

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SuperNovaStar 10 points 6 months ago

Couldn't we sail into the stars, boldly going where no human has gone before, leaving earth and its petty tyrants behind?

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Redacted 11 points 6 months ago

Okay but if you find a ghost ship trapped in orbit around Neptune called the Event Horizon DO NOT GO INSIDE!

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EmpathicVagrant 2 points 6 months ago

Wait I was boarding the Event Horizon while you typed that, do what now?

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