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Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel's Hawaii trip included 'VIP snorkel' at a Pearl Harbor memorial
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau's Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement.
Left out of the FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a “VIP snorkel” around the USS Arizona in an outing coordinated by the military. The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
The swim, revealed in government emails obtained by The Associated Press, comes to light amid criticism of Patel’s use of the FBI plane and his global travel, which have blurred professional responsibilities with leisure activities. The FBI did not disclose the snorkeling session or that Patel had returned to Hawaii for two days after his initial stopover on the island.
Kash Patel Went on ‘VIP Snorkel’ Adventure Around Pearl Harbor Wreckage: Report
Even though the following sentence will read like Government Mad Libs with the blanks already filled in, The Associated Press reports it to be true:
While on [activity] official business, [U.S. official] FBI Director Kash Patel went on [another activity] a “VIP snorkel” around [solemn U.S. memorial] Pearl Harbor’s USS Arizona battleship, which [now make it so much worse] entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines who died in a WWII attack so horrific President Franklin Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”
Patel reportedly toured the underwater wreckage, which is considered a cemetery and is off limits to tourists and families of Arizona victims, last August, according to emails the AP obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. At the time, the FBI insisted its director was not on vacation and was visiting Hawaii’s field office and meeting with local law enforcement representatives. But two days later, when his official business was done, Patel returned to Hawaii, a fact the FBI didn’t disclose at the time, and reportedly went swimming — or as officials described it, he went on a “VIP snorkel” session.
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Patel’s new mess: Emails show his Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at Pearl Harbor memorial
The beleaguered director didn’t need another embarrassing controversy. He apparently has one anyway.
FBI Director Kash Patel has certainly generated a lot of headlines recently. A week ago, for example, the public learned about his personally branded liquor bottles. The same day, MS NOW reported that the bureau had launched a highly controversial criminal leak investigation focusing on a journalist at The Atlantic who wrote a deeply unflattering account of Patel.
Days later, the former podcast personality threw a bit of a tantrum during a Senate hearing. The same day, NOTUS reported that Patel’s FBI had put together a team of special agents that has been internally referred to as the “payback squad,” featuring members “willing to pursue political targets set by the Trump administration.” One day later, MS NOW also reported that, according to FBI insiders, Patel had manipulated data and was “padding the stats” in order to exaggerate federal arrest data and make himself look better.
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