The US Senate approved Patel with the head of the FBI

The US Senate approved Kesh Patel’s candidacy proposed by Donald Trump as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The corresponding vote took place on Thursday, February 20, the Ukrinform reports.

It was noted that 51 senators voted for the patel, against 49 (all Democrats and two Republicans).

The 44-year-old Patel-A former prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice-Bece is an enthusiastic critic of law enforcement agencies. He wrote a book in which he promised to destroy the Ministry of Justice and the FBI, who cleaned and removed older officials. He also said he wanted to announce a large number of government secrets and bring the entry into secret information from people investigating Trump’s activities.

It is believed that Patel will lead the FBI to Trump’s first purity, but after prosecuting Bill Barr, among others, is a category that opposes it, saying that Patel has no appropriate qualifications.

Trump’s attitude to the FBI is more associated with investigations against him, along with two criminal cases closed after the election: one of them reminds the president’s appeal to secret documents, the other yet – his attempt to cancel voting results in 2020.

The head of the Washington branch, who oversees the investigation of the events of January 6, has been removed, as well as six Senior FBI heads and many FBI branches nationwide.

Earlier it was reported that Kesh Patel as the head of the FBI brought many fears to US political political political, as there would be extensive authority to investigate Trump’s political enemies.

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