Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel [1] [2] was born on February 25, 1980, [3] in Garden City, New York, to Indian Gujarati immigrant parents. [4] [5] His parents first moved to Canada in the early 1970s from Uganda in East Africa, where they were facing ethnic repression.[4] [6] Subsequently, they moved to the United States and his father started working as a financial officer at an …

6 days ago · Kash Patel is an American lawyer and government official who was selected by Pres. Donald Trump to serve as director of the FBI in his second administration. Patel held several posts during Trump’s first term (2017–21).

6 days ago · Kash Patel is an unusual choice for F.B.I. director in many ways — including that he once asserted his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself while being questioned before a grand jury.

Dec 1, 2024 · Kash Patel has called for radical changes at the FBI and was a fierce and vocal critic of the bureau’s work as it investigated ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Dec 9, 2024 · Years before he was Donald Trump ’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel was a midlevel Justice Department lawyer who once drew the ire of a Texas judge who described Patel as being precisely the...

Kashyap "Kash" Patel (born February 25, 1980) [1] is an American lawyer, politician and writer. Patel was a U.S. National Security Council official, senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the first Donald Trump presidency. [2] [3] [4]

Dec 3, 2024 · As he braces for a bruising and likely protracted Senate confirmation fight, Patel can expect scrutiny not only over his professed fealty to Trump but also for his belief — revealed over the last year in interviews and his own book — …

Dec 2, 2024 · Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI and an ardent supporter of the president-elect, has vowed to help dismantle the same organization he’s poised to lead.

Dec 1, 2024 · United States President-elect Donald Trump has nominated one of his most loyal aides, Kash Patel, to run the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), drawing a sharp reaction from critics, who...

Nov 30, 2024 · Here are five takeaways from a recent New York Times profile of Mr. Patel, who has denounced his critics as biased against Mr. Trump and has said he led efforts to expose F.B.I. “corruption.”...