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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,221 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:41 PM Apr 2025

Exclusive: Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say

Source: Reuters

Exclusive: Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say

By Sarah N. Lynch, Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart
April 9, 2025 1:39 PM EDT * Updated 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - FBI Director Kash Patel was removed as the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and replaced by U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, seven people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Driscoll will continue to serve as Army Secretary while he also oversees the ATF, an arm of the U.S. Justice Department, said three of the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters that were not yet public.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say-2025-04-09/



It seems he didn't bother to show up.

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/04/kash-patel-axed-as-atf-director-after-ghosting-job/

Kash Patel Axed As ATF Director After Ghosting Job
April 9, 2025
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Exclusive: Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2025 OP
Hard to commute from Vegas Historic NY Apr 2025 #1
LMAO... MayReasonRule Apr 2025 #3
Maybe he's investigating the shady stuff in sin city IronLionZion Apr 2025 #6
Life's tough when you're living in another man's Las Vegas mansion and playing pick-up hockey Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #11
Is that what they call it? Historic NY Apr 2025 #20
Why should F47 care whether or not Patel shows up for work or not??? I have nothing to base this in2herbs Apr 2025 #2
What military? odins folly Apr 2025 #16
This is to get a loyalist military general in to mix military and law enforcement obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #4
Yeah lonely bird Apr 2025 #13
Secretary of the Army odins folly Apr 2025 #17
My first thought upon reading the OP... IthinkThereforeIAM Apr 2025 #18
Yikes. n/t yellow dahlia Apr 2025 #19
FBI & ATF EYESORE 9001 Apr 2025 #5
"We don't need no ATF. Keep"the.gobermint away from my alcohol, tobacco and firearms." Marcuse Apr 2025 #7
So he is the first of Trump's loonies to go. nt doc03 Apr 2025 #8
He's still in charge of the FBI, IIRC Retrograde Apr 2025 #9
Oh great still in FBI IIRC. doc03 Apr 2025 #10
Oooh, Patel got DOGE'd! ToxMarz Apr 2025 #12
No he didn't -- he still is the FBI Director obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #14
...who can't leave Vegas because it's too much fun. n/t Safe as Milk Apr 2025 #25
Leon finally found a remote worker Hassler Apr 2025 #15
Could Patel be off on another Gourmet G.O.P. Golf junket? BoRaGard Apr 2025 #21
Wow...he finally found waste,fraud and ABUSE. All done by a Republican Bengus81 Apr 2025 #22
Thank God he has his little side gig at the FBI to fall back on. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #23
Such responsible people these are! travelingthrulife Apr 2025 #24
One good thing about it.... COL Mustard Apr 2025 #26

Prairie Gates

(7,194 posts)
11. Life's tough when you're living in another man's Las Vegas mansion and playing pick-up hockey
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 03:57 PM
Apr 2025

in2herbs

(4,238 posts)
2. Why should F47 care whether or not Patel shows up for work or not??? I have nothing to base this
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:48 PM
Apr 2025

comment on but would it be easier for F47 to declare martial law with military in positions of authority??

obamanut2012

(29,174 posts)
4. This is to get a loyalist military general in to mix military and law enforcement
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:50 PM
Apr 2025

this is not funny, it's bad.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,279 posts)
18. My first thought upon reading the OP...
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 08:30 PM
Apr 2025

... another one of the GOP/RNC/Putin, "Oops, did I do dat"?

EYESORE 9001

(29,456 posts)
5. FBI & ATF
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 02:51 PM
Apr 2025

How can you be in two places at once when you’re really nowhere at all?

I hope this is a prelude to a splashy & embarrassing departure from the FBI, along with any further involvement with US government. Unless it’s an extended stay in a federal prison.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
21. Could Patel be off on another Gourmet G.O.P. Golf junket?
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 06:42 AM
Apr 2025

Like the G.O.P. Golfer-in-Chief, Krasnov?

Asking for the meek,
who Christ promised would inheirit the Earth.

Bengus81

(9,826 posts)
22. Wow...he finally found waste,fraud and ABUSE. All done by a Republican
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 07:13 AM
Apr 2025

No shock there.............

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)
24. Such responsible people these are!
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 09:29 AM
Apr 2025

And yet all they do is whine and complain against American workers.

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