EXCLUSIVE: "ODNI and the FBI are united in working with Congress" following Charlie Kirk's assassination, rejecting New York Times report
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence told the Washington Reporter that reports of discontent between the DNI and the FBI are greatly exaggerated.
Top officials in the Trump administration’s intelligence community tell the Washington Reporter that reports of disunity between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the FBI, following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In the wake of a story in the New York Times spotlighting alleged divisions between Joe Kent, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), and FBI Director Kash Patel, officials representing their agencies told the Reporter that reports of a feud are drastically overhyped.
“The ODNI and the FBI are united in working with Congress to strengthen our nation’s counterintelligence efforts to best protect the safety, security, and freedom of the American people,” an ODNI official told the Reporter.
Specifically, the official added that when it comes to the efforts to solve the case about Kirk’s assassination, “the FBI and intelligence community under the direction of President Trump will leave no stone unturned in the investigation of the assassination of our friend, Charlie Kirk.”
The remarks from the ODNI official to the Reporter rebut the thrust of the Times piece that Kash “Patel was troubled that Mr. Kent had gone through F.B.I. material related to the case.”
Kent’s investigations reportedly centered around whether Kirk’s alleged assassin had any times with foreign entities.