Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI's team mass shooting (Brown U) response, whistleblower tells top senator
Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whistleblower’s account newly provided to Congress.
FBI Director Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI’s two available jets and had given an order to hold the other for another team that would not normally respond to the scene, according to the whistleblower and the sources. The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm to reach the university in Providence, Rhode Island, by 9 o’clock the next morning, according to the whistleblower’s account.
According to the whistleblower’s account, Patel ordered that the Hostage Rescue Team be put on standby after learning of the shooting, which froze the use of the second plane by any other FBI team. FBI officials were confused by his order as numerous SWAT team agents in the nearest local field offices — in this case, Boston and New York — would ordinarily be called upon to provide immediate support, rather than the Quantico, Virginia-based Hostage Rescue Team.
An FBI official familiar with Patel’s travel said he was using the jet that December weekend to visit his elderly parents, but declined to say where the parents lived due to security concerns. Property databases reviewed by MS NOW indicate Patel’s parents reside in south Florida.
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