FBI’s Top Leaders Said to Be Expecting Demotions From Kash Patel

Up to six top FBI executives have been told to expect reassignments if Kash Patel is confirmed as director, part of a wider overhaul at an agency President Donald Trump has derided as partisan, said four people familiar with the process.

The six executive assistant directors, who work alongside the director on the seventh floor of the FBI’s headquarters, have been informed that potentially all of them would be removed by Patel, whose nomination will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

An FBI spokesperson declined to comment, and a spokeswoman for Patel didn’t immediately provide a response.

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