Kash Patel may have flouted legal constraints and the FBI’s disciplinary code in prematurely divulging arrests in an alleged plot to attack this month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, bureau veterans have alleged.

The FBI director was accused of “jumping the gun” by posting details on social media of five arrests in an investigation carried out in conjunction with the Secret Service.

It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it. There is a general prohibition against publicising information related to sealed cases while the order remains in force, under US federal law. Although exceptions exist allowing for revealing their contents, formal court authorization would be needed to do so. Patel has previously invoked court orders sealing grand jury testimony as justification for the FBI’s inability to release many of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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    If the goal was to make himself look good, it didn’t work. He still looks like a snivelling asshole.

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    Maybe putting raging alcoholics in charge of major government agencies wasn’t such a great idea.

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    Kash Patel may have has flouted legal constraints and the FBI’s disciplinary code in prematurely divulging arrests in an alleged plot to attack this month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, bureau veterans have alleged report.

    If there’s no doubt that he DID publicly publish nonpublic details of an ongoing investigation, there’s no doubt that he broke the law and FBI rules either.

    Stating one with certainty and “alleging” the other is the equivalent of saying “man who without a doubt murdered his neighbor might have broken the law, former prosecutor opines”

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    It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it.

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    Patel has previously invoked court orders sealing grand jury testimony as justification for the FBI’s inability to release many of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.

    There’s no contradiction here. Everyone should move along.

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      He really does look like there is just NOTHING going on in that head. Just a moth dawdling around in there that occasionally bumps into a nerve and makes him move and talk.

      Indian people everywhere must be so pissed at him for how profoundly stupid he is on a global level.

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          I mean sure, that’s another barely important commonality, but there’s about a billion other and more prominent issues with Kash Patel that have nothing to do with Tom Haverford.

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    Every photo of Kash Patel looks like it’s from an Onion story where he has slowly backed into the folded arms of a looming, muscular henchman who is only visible from the neck down