FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and cutting out the traditional chain of command.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Patel’s first order of business after taking the helm at the FBI was securing a direct connection to President Trump.
For decades, every FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover has maintained an arm’s-length relationship with the White House.
But under Trump’s leadership, Patel is taking a different approach—one that ensures the FBI is aligned with the administration’s agenda, rather than operating as a rogue, deep-state stronghold.
The Journal reported:
Patel’s determination to keep in close contact with Trump himself is an arrangement outside the traditional chain of command in which the FBI director reports to the deputy attorney general, and the president usually talks only to the attorney general.
It is but one example of how on matters big and small administration officials including Patel and senior officials at the Justice Department have deferred to Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller since taking office, the people said. Miller has regularly talked to top officials at the Justice Department, including about the FBI, the people said.
Patel had told others he planned to keep a longtime FBI agent and supervisor, Robert Kissane, as his deputy, for example, according to people familiar with the discussions, but let that go for Trump’s choice of conservative firebrand Dan Bongino. Miller repeatedly called then-acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove at night to push for the FBI to do more to execute Trump’s immigration crackdown, people familiar with the calls said. And Bove is the official who ordered prosecutors to drop the bribery case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, saying the case interfered with the mayor’s ability to assist on Trump’s priorities of fighting illegal immigration and violent crime.
Additionally, Patel has reportedly inquired about hiring his own private security detail, separate from the FBI agents assigned to protect him. This request, according to sources familiar with the matter, stems from a lack of trust in the agency’s current personnel.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the Assistant Director for Public Affairs at the FBI for comment.
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