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Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage Res
« on: January 29, 2025, 08:55:03 am »
Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage Rescue

Kristina Wong 28 Jan 2025

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday pushed an anonymous smear about Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee Kash Patel just days ahead of his confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Durbin, in a letter sent to Trump administration officials dated January 27, 2025, said he received “highly credible information” that Patel “broke protocol” regarding hostage rescues when he commented to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) “without authorization” about a successful hostage rescue during the first Trump administration in October 2020.

Durbin claimed the rescue of two Americans who had been held captive by Iranian-backed Houthi militants was still in progress when Patel commented to the newspaper. Durbin claimed that the WSJ published comments from Patel at 10:55 a.m. ET, several hours before the hostages were in confirmed custody of the U.S.

The WSJ reported that the two Americans were freed and that a Royal Oman Air Force plane carrying them and the remains of a third “flew out of Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital of Sana’a, hours after the jet and a companion flight” had brought more than 200 Houthi loyalists back to Yemen. The paper cited U.S. and Saudi officials — not just Patel.

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Re: Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2025, 09:17:11 am »
Does anyone on the planet still give one hoot in hell what Dick Turbin says about anything?
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Re: Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2025, 01:38:43 pm »
Wasn’t Dick responsible fore leaking sensitive information?
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Re: Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2025, 02:04:09 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 29, 2025, 01:38:43 pm
Wasn’t Dick responsible fore leaking sensitive information?
IIRC on more than one occasion.
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Re: Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2025, 03:27:08 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 29, 2025, 08:55:03 am
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Monday pushed an anonymous smear about Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director nominee Kash Patel

It's not anonymous any more.  Dick Durbin now owns it.
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Re: Dick Durbin Pushes Anonymous Smear that Kash Patel ‘Broke Protocol’ When Commenting on a Hostage
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2025, 06:26:49 pm »
I'm reaching way WAY back here, but didn't durbin originally win his seat in a race against somebody named "Durkin" ??

And that it was a very close finish, hotly contested, and durbin edged out a "victory" under dubious circumstances?
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