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senator Adam SchiffD-Calif. On Wednesday, he loudly criticized Kash Patel’s tenure as FBI director and told reporters he believed Patel’s leadership was deeply partisan and a “terrible tragedy” for the vast U.S. law enforcement agency.
Speaking at a press conference with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Schiff expressed dissatisfaction with Patel’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee – Schiff said it further demonstrated his concerns about politicization within the game.
Schiff said Wednesday that the FBI “is the main law enforcement agency in the country and around the world because they have been professional and nonpartisans.”
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D-Calif. Senator Adam Schiff spoke with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on September 17, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Number)
“I think it’s a horrible tragedy for the men and women of the bureau, whose leadership is so bad that they replace expertise with incompetence, which is replacing non-partisan with the most fanatical partisanship,” Schiff told Fox News Digital. “It has nothing to do with us here today.”
When Patel appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, he gave his testimony the next day before the Senate and House Judiciary Committee.
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D-Calif’s former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke to reporters at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on September 17, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Number)
The signs of both hearings were sharp questions from Democrats, their Patel FBI shootingthe bureau deals with Epstein’s archives and politicized concerns, and many other things.
Schiff, in particular, urging Patel to serve in the FBI, said the agency’s agents (which were mainly allocated to 52 field offices across the country and were unwilling to see their work politicized – wondering what Patel received from President Donald Trump, if anything.
The hot, yet-to-turn turned into a yelling match between the two as Schiff repeatedly pressured the FBI agents’ shooting and whether the men were removed for political reasons.
Patel describes Schiff as a “political harlequin”.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Schiff said Patel’s presence did not make him worry more widely on the field about weaponization fears.
He told Fox News that “without the rule of law, you can’t have a dynamic democracy,” Schiff said. “If you have a FBI with weapons and a Department of Justice, you can’t have a rule of law – sadly, that’s what we have here today.”
FBI agents walked past the crime scene. (Getty Image)
He also treated Patel yesterday Patel claims On Tuesday, there was no “credible evidence” that Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking women other than himself.
Schiff said it was a “shocking statement” especially since people who have promoted such a belief before, as Epstein kept a huge list of powerful figures.
“So it’s totally inconsistent with everything he said in the past,” he said, also noting that Patel’s “rejection” answered him about why Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to press Ghislaine Maxwell further, who she determined to be “close to Epstein” or establish a relationship with him in a two-day interview in July.
“Blanche refused to ask who they were, just ignoring her comment.”
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“It’s the kind of incompetence we see again,” he said, adding, “Incompetence is the most polite thing I can describe, but it certainly is a cover-up.”
The Justice Department and the FBI have been working to calm the public’s revelation of more information about their release of Epstein’s investigation, which emphasizes the persistence of stories in a fast-moving news cycle, and among Trump’s supporters, they have been some of the leading voices asking for that information.
