FBI Head’s Jet Use Delayed Shooting Response, Whistleblower Says

A whistleblower told Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee that FBI agents had to drive through a winter storm overnight from Quantico, Virginia to Providence, Rhode Island to process evidence at a mass shooting scene because Director Kash Patel’s personal travel had left the bureau without an available plane.

That disclosure is among several in a letter the panel’s ranking member Dick Durbin sent Tuesday to federal watchdogs, calling for an investigation into Patel’s use of government aircraft.

The letter comes days after Patel was seen celebrating with the gold medal-winning US men’s Olympic hockey team in Italy on ...