Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) known as out FBI Director Kash Patel for not understanding the white supremacist and mass shooter Dylann Roof, who shot and killed 9 Black individuals at a Charleston, South Carolina, church in 2015.
“Dylann Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered nine Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?” Kamlager-Dove requested Patel throughout a Wednesday listening to of the Home Judiciary Committee.
“I’m sorry. Dylann Roof?” Patel requested. “Can you give me some more information?”
Kamlager-Dove responded, “You’re head of the FBI. You probably know this. If you don’t know, that’s fine.”
“If you can give me a reminder, I’ve got a lot in front of me,” Patel stated in response.
“It was national news,” Kamlager-Dove replied.
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Kamlager-Dove was questioning Patel about mass murderers and their motivations on Wednesday. Patel has confronted two days of hearings in each chambers of Congress, throughout which he was additionally questioned concerning the dying of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, the case towards convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and Patel’s loyalty to President Donald Trump.
Patel defended the FBI’s work in arresting Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who’s suspected of capturing and killing Kirk final week at Utah Valley College. Patel stated placing out surveillance digicam pictures of Robinson “led to his apprehension.”
However lawmakers questioned Patel about his untimely announcement the day of Kirk’s dying that the FBI had caught the suspect. (The FBI had briefly detained an individual of curiosity, however he was not the suspected shooter.)
“I’m seeing FBI leadership more focused on social media clout and on political revenge than on fighting crime,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) stated.
Patel additionally bought right into a heated alternate with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) after Booker advised Patel that he wouldn’t final lengthy as head of the FBI.
“You are an embarrassment to the division of this country!” Patel yelled at Booker in response, including, “Your time is over.”
“You don’t tell me my time is over! The people of New Jersey tell me when my time is — you can’t lecture me!” Booker yelled again.
Whereas questioning Patel, Kamlager-Dove listed off names of mass shooters, together with Robert Bowers, who killed 11 individuals inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. Kamlager-Dove requested Patel if he agreed with Trump that the “radicals on the left are the problem.”
Patel stated there may be ideology on either side that results in violence.
