Important Takeaways:

• FBI employees were terminated or forced to quit Thursday within hours of FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
• At least 20 executive assistant directors, assistant directors and special agents in charge from throughout the U.S. were forced out of the agency, according to sources.
• Several officials had already boxed up their offices before they were officially notified of their termination.
• The FBI declined to comment on the terminations.
• After Thursday’s hearing, Mr. Patel, despite clashing with the Senate’s Democratic minority, appeared on a glide path to confirmation.
• Patel, who has served in high-level adviser positions related to national security, said at his confirmation hearing that he planned to stop the “weaponization” of the FBI.
• “There will be no politicization of the FBI. There will be no retributive actions,” he told senators.

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