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
Historic NY
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(50,819 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,194 posts)Historic NY
(39,648 posts)in2herbs
(4,238 posts)comment on but would it be easier for F47 to declare martial law with military in positions of authority??
odins folly
(547 posts)Secretary of the Army is a civilian...
obamanut2012
(29,174 posts)this is not funny, it's bad.
lonely bird
(2,773 posts)Military in charge of civilian law enforcement agencies is not good at all.
odins folly
(547 posts)Is a civilian post....
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,279 posts)... another one of the GOP/RNC/Putin, "Oops, did I do dat"?
yellow dahlia
(4,543 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,456 posts)How can you be in two places at once when youre 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 its an extended stay in a federal prison.
Marcuse
(8,794 posts)doc03
(38,831 posts)Retrograde
(11,375 posts)My money's still on Rubio being the first to go
doc03
(38,831 posts)ToxMarz
(2,757 posts)obamanut2012
(29,174 posts)Safe as Milk
(207 posts)Hassler
(4,765 posts)Not working to fire.
BoRaGard
(7,591 posts)Like the G.O.P. Golfer-in-Chief, Krasnov?
Asking for the meek,
who Christ promised would inheirit the Earth.
Bengus81
(9,826 posts)No shock there.............
Scrivener7
(58,314 posts)travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)And yet all they do is whine and complain against American workers.
COL Mustard
(7,994 posts)Maybe the officer's clubs will get cheap booze this way.