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Kash Patel: “Because the operational mandate that we have at the Bureau…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel

Published | Video Starts at 1:39:17

That should not have been transmitted anywhere. We got on top of it fast enough, where I believe. Because you thought it was wrong? I thought the. Why did you prevent it? Because the operational mandate that we have at the Bureau, in my opinion, prohibited the public disclosure of that information across our media. So to be perfectly clear, the Department of Justice got it wrong. I'm not speaking for the Department of Justice. And you are saying that that directive was in complete conflict of what your procedures and processes are. (1:39:17–1:39:28)

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Asserts that Bureau's operational mandate prohibited public disclosure of certain information.

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