FBI insiders: Kash Patel is ‘padding the stats’ to boost his record of arrests 73.8%
MS NOW - By Carol Leonnig, Ken Dilanian - 5/13/2026, 6:58 PM
Appeal to Authority 34.4% - Negativity Bias 33.9% - Unattributed Quote 28.3%
FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped months of unflattering insider accounts of his leadership in a hearing on Tuesday. Instead, he boasted of the bureau almost doubling its number of arrests under his tenure, and of capturing the world’s “Ten Most Wanted” villains at a record clip. He sounded a familiar refrain as he seeks to protect his... more