Saturday, March 01, 2025

From The New Republic--Kash Patel to work from home in Las Vegas running 2 agencies--

Patel and Muldoon even took a golf trip together to Scotland back when the FBI director was a federal employee on the National Security Council, which could be an ethics violation. Patel at the time was barred from accepting gifts, and the NSC at the time wasn’t approving any trips. He also would have had to report the trip, and records aren’t available from that time to confirm whether he did or did not.
All of this raises questions as to how Patel is going to run not one, but two, prominent federal law enforcement agencies (he is also head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) with such extensive ties to someone with questionable practices, living in Las Vegas part-time. It seems that the appearance of corruption is not a barrier to working in the Trump administration, even if you’re in charge of enforcing the law.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192150/kash-patel-work-home-fbi-vegas

State Department terminates support of Ukraine electric grid restoration--

https://www.aol.com/news/state-department-terminates-u-support-193604178.html