Source: International Business Times
FBI agents assigned to gather evidence at the Brown University mass shooting in December were compelled to drive overnight from Quantico, Virginia, to Providence, Rhode Island, amid a winter storm because Director Kash Patel was using one of the bureau's two available jets in south Florida and had placed a hold on the other, according to a whistleblower account shared with Congress on 24 February. Senator Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, revealed the allegation in a letter sent Tuesday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG). Durbin called on both bodies to investigate Patel's use of government aircraft, citing what he described as 'irresponsible joyriding on DOJ and FBI-operated aircraft at the expense of the American taxpayer and to the detriment of ongoing Bureau operations,' according to The Hill.
