It's Not Just The FBI - Kash Patel To Take Over Another Crucial Agency As Well

Posted • February 23, 2025: Kash Patel, fresh off his swearing-in as the nation’s ninth FBI director—a ceremony conducted by Attorney General Pam Bondi—apparently has enough bandwidth to take on an additional big job as well. Reports on Saturday indicate that he will be nominated to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). I find it hard enough to keep up with one job, but he’s going to take on two extremely important positions? Impressive. Bondi had fired the ATF’s general counsel earlier in the week: FBI Director Kash Patel will be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), two sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Saturday. The news comes a day after Patel was sworn in as the ninth FBI director in a narrow Senate vote. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray resigned at the end of former President Biden’s term and Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the ATF general counsel, Pamela Hicks, on Thursday.

“Earlier today, I was served official notice from the Attorney General of the United States that I was being removed from my position as the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Department of Justice terminated,” Hicks posted on her LinkedIn page Thursday, confirming her termination. The AG explained her decision to terminate Hicks in no uncertain terms: “These people were targeting gun owners,” Bondi told Fox News on Thursday of the ATF. “Not gonna happen under this administration.” Both the FBI and ATF are part of the DOJ. Gun owners are happy to see that Patel will be in charge. The ATF has come under withering criticism from pro-Second Amendment advocates who say the agency is more concerned with gun control than gun safety. (…)

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