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GIFFORDS: Kash Patel is not fit to run the FBI

WASHINGTON — Today, GIFFORDS, the national gun violence prevention organization founded by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, released the following statement ahead of Kash Patel’s nomination hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 


“Kash Patel leading the FBI would be an unprecedented threat to public safety and the integrity of federal law enforcement. Patel is woefully unprepared to lead an agency tasked with keeping Americans safe,” said GIFFORDS Executive Director Emma Brown. “His troubling ties to extreme groups that oppose basic gun safety measures, combined with his total lack of experience in public safety, make him uniquely unqualified to oversee the FBI. The FBI requires experienced leadership committed to protecting all Americans, not a conspiracy theorist whose primary qualification appears to be loyalty to a single individual.”

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