Back কাশ প্যাটেল Bengali/Bangla Kash Patel German Kash Patel Spanish کش پتل Persian Kash Patel French Kash Patel Galician קאש פאטל HE कश्यप प्रमोद पटेल Hindi Kash Patel ID Kash Patel Dutch
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_(cropped).jpg) Patel in 2022 | |
| Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Nominee | |
| Assuming office TBD[a] | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Christopher A. Wray |
| Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense | |
| In office November 29, 2020 – January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Jennifer M. Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Kelly Magsamen |
| Principal Deputy to the Director of National Intelligence | |
| In office February 20, 2020 – May 13, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Andrew P. Hallman |
| Succeeded by | Neil Wiley |
| Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism | |
| In office October 3, 2019 – February 20, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 25, 1980 Garden City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | |
Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel[1][2] (born February 25, 1980) is an American lawyer, former federal prosecutor and official, and conspiracy theorist. He served as a National Security Council official, chief of staff to the acting U.S. secretary of defense, and senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence, all during the first presidency of Donald Trump. In November 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Patel to succeed Christopher Wray as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A member of the Republican Party, Patel was appointed senior counsel on counterterrorism for the House Intelligence Committee in 2017, as well as senior director of the Counterterrorism Directorate at the National Security Council in 2019. He worked as a senior aide to congressman Devin Nunes during his tenure as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. While working with Nunes, Patel played a key role in helping Republicans in the investigations into Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election. Patel was instrumental in drafting the Nunes memo in 2018, which alleged errors in the FBI application for a surveillance warrant of a Trump 2016 campaign aide.
Patel has promoted several conspiracy theories[b] and sold branded merchandise under the logotype "K$H". He is president and a board member of the Kash Foundation based in Alexandria, Virginia.
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- ^ a b "Who is Kash Patel, the Trump loyalist tapped to run the FBI?". Archived from the original on December 7, 2024. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
What do we know about Kash Patel? Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, commonly known as Kash, was born in the city of New York, a child of immigrant parents originally from the Indian state of Gujarat.
- ^ a b "Kashyap Patel, The Florida Bar Member Profile". The Florida bar. April 20, 2006. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
The Florida Bar Member profile Name: Kashyap Pramod Patel Admitted: 04/20/2006 Elected status: Inactive