Kash Patel instructed by the White House to oversee investigation into NYT journalists: report
- The White House reportedly instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a leak to the New York Times over the newspaper's reporting of President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One alternative.
- Patel was planning to fly to Chicago last week to see his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, a country music singer, and to visit an FBI field office in the city when he abruptly cancelled the trip.
- It emerged that Patel was called in to the White House, where he spent “roughly eight hours running the investigation from there rather than FBI headquarters,” on Friday, the newspaper reports.
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- The White House reportedly instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a leak to the New York Times over the newspaper's reporting of President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One alternative.
- Patel was planning to fly to Chicago last week to see his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, a country music singer, and to visit an FBI field office in the city when he abruptly cancelled the trip.
- It emerged that Patel was called in to the White House, where he spent “roughly eight hours running the investigation from there rather than FBI headquarters,” on Friday, the newspaper reports.
Sources: The Independent