FBI Director Kash Patel was not present in a Signal conversation where other top members of the Trump administration discussed in-depth attack ideas, but that didn’t stop him from being questioned by politicians this year about whether the most important law enforcement agency may conduct an investigation.
Patel testified he had never personally reviewed the text emails that were unintentionally shared with the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and declined to comment on the probability during the two days of Senate and House sessions.
The reality is that the Justice Department and FBI have been in charge of enforcing Espionage Act rules, whether it be intentional or irresponsible, regarding the misuse of national defense information, like the kind shared on Signal, despite President Trump’s assertion that “it’s not really an FBI thing.”
