The FBI is seeking a new private aircraft, which will be used not only by a group of critical response of the office elite to incidents, but also by FBI director Kasha Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “Executive Transport”.
But after Wednesday’s report Independent A Bondi spokesman now says AG is contrary to the purchase and does not want to do anything with it.
“FBI has an independent process of public procurement director and their agents,” said Gates McGavick, a spokesman for the Justice Department Independent; “Neither the Attorney General nor the DOJ leadership knew about it and sees that it does not need to be used in the basic justice.”
“Basic Justice” is the colloquial DOJ headquarters name.
The DOJ source said Bondi would like the FBI request to offer proposals to be annulled, and that she is pleased with the current travel order.
At the same time, a FBI representative said Independent The fact that you buy a new jet plane will actually be money saving for taxpayers.
“The aircraft in question is for critical functions such as the installation of a hostage rescue team, international operations, Swat ops and others related to national security purposes – but the current lease structure is unnecessary wasted,” the spokesman said. “As we did with other assets, such as moving the headquarters, the FBI appreciates the available opportunities to better serve American people for much lower and more efficient costs for the taxpayer.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi claims that she is not interested in using a new aircraft looking for FBI (Getty Images)
Particularly long business jet plane is for flying agents and other office staff to distant worldwide places to respond to terrorism, “high -risk operations” and other “sensitive missions” based on purchase documents Independent; Together with the Government’s request to submit proposals, a related report statement states that the aircraft will “also support executive transport requirements to the FBI director and the US Attorney General”, namely, Patel and Bondi.
The Fed wants a plane that flies at the speed of 0.83 or higher, and the Macho 0.85 Mach is specified in the RFP as “desirable”. It must contain at least 7,000 marine miles, it could sit at least 12 passengers, three crews and £ 1,000. cargo, RFP states.
This means that the Fed needs something like the Gulfstream G800, which contains 19 and can take 7,000 nautical macho 0.90, or the Bombardier Global 8000, which contains 19 and can travel 8000 marine miles of 0.94 Mach.
Prices are not included in the application documents, but the G800 starts around $ 72.5 million. FBI paid $ 2.4 million.
May Patel told legislators that the FBI spent far more than $ 1 billion in red. A 45-year-old Las Vegas resident has been abolished in recent months for its apparently firm use of the FBI private jet fleet for personal journeys. It is required by government officials to reimburse any flights – commercial coach prices – costs not for official business.
Patel is reportedly using government aircraft to visit Nirville, in Tennessee, where his country’s singer lives in hockey games in New York, to go to Las Vegas and participate in at least one UFC in Miami, where he sat with the president Trump.
The use of FBI Director Kash Patel Government aircraft was questioned for personal use (Getty Images)
May Senate Democrats asked the US Government Accountability Service to examine Patel’s travel on government aircraft, which he must make while forcing them to be inaccessible to FBI emergencies.
“Those aircraft were purchased or leased precisely to meet the needs of the activity,” April. CBS News told a former FBI fight against terrorism officer Christopher O’Leary. “The concern is that the director and the deputy director can use their critical source in the usual use of personal journeys when they need to be instantaneously.”
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Before taking over the FBI leader, Patel condemned the then FBI director Christopher Wray for this[ed]; (Wray said he compensated the government for any personal use.)
Bondi and Patel have been confronted earlier this year for the so -called epestein cases, the FBI documents related to the well -known sex offender, whose relationships with rich and famous, including Donald Trump, are now well known.
“Dear director Patel, before I took office, I asked for full and full cases related to Jeffrey Epstein,” – February 27th. Bondi wrote in the letter. “… yesterday late; I found out from the source that the FBI Field Office had thousands of pages of eptele investigation and accusation in New York. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these cases.”
The files were still not released, as Bondi recently announced that Epstein’s hot -expected “client list”, which she said was “on its desk” and prepared for public distribution, did not actually exist.