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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump The candidate for the Federal Research Office returned to his confirmation audience after being on the plate on the forgiveness of the President of the Riot of January 6.
“So do you think America is safer because the 1600 people have been given the opportunity to get out of their sentences and live again in our communities?” Democratic Senator Dick Dubin asked Patel in Thursday’s sight, pressing him on January 6, who assaulted police officers who had his sentences commuted earlier this month.
Patel responded with a reference to Biden’s decision in the last hours of his presidency Leonard Free FreeAn far -left activist sentenced to the 1975 murders of two FBI special agents, Ronald Williams and Jack Coler, who were killed in a South Dakota shootout.
“”Senator, I have not looked at the 1600 individual cases, “said Patel.
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and FBI director, Kash Patel candidates (AP/Reuters)
“I have always defended the imprisonment of those who cause damage to our law and civil communities. Agent Coler and Williams Family The Man Blank Range fired a shotgun on his head and killed them, released from prison.
Durbin responded by lowering the comparison between Pelier and January 6.
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Senator Dick Durbin speaks during an audience of the Senate Commission of the Judiciary at Capitol Hill, on December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
“Leonard Peltier was in prison for 45 years,” Durbin responded. “He is 80 years old and was sentenced to confinement at home. So he is not free. As you could have suggested. He killed two FBI agents, but you think the United States is safer because President Trump issued these Pardons to 1600 of these criminals defendants, many of whom violently assaulted our police in capital? “
Patel replied: “The senator, America will be safe when we do not have 200,000 drug overdose in two years, America will be safe when we do not have 50 homicides a day.”
Kash Patel speaks during a campaign event for the Republican election candidates. (Brandon Bell/Getty pictures)
Patel conservatives and supporters on social media praised Patel for their response.
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In his initial statements, the President of the Senate Judicial Committee, Chuck Grassley, said: “The FBI public confidence is low.”
“Only 41% of the North public -american believe that the FBI is doing a good job. This is the lowest qualification of a century,” he continued.
Grassley offered Patel’s experience as a public defender and the Department of Justice, as well as his participation in the Permanent Selection Committee of the Intelligence Chamber in 2017 to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.
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Patel has “managed great bureaucracies of intelligence and defense, identified and counteracted the threats of national security, prosecuted and defended criminals,” said Grassley. “He has done so as he struggled for transparency and accountability to the Government,” giving it -“precisely the qualifications we need at the moment” to direct the cabinet.
Patel’s nomination has provoked the first criticisms of some Democrats before their confirmation audience, who have quoted their previous votes to pursue journalists and career officials in the Department of Justice and the FBI who consider them to be part of the “State deep ”.
Breanne Deppisch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report
