FBI head Kash Patel has reportedly pointed to his frustrations with Attorney General Pam Bondi, especially over the contentious Epstein files issue

FBI Director Kash Patel is making bureau staff take polygraph tests to root out anyone who’s been talking trash about him, according to a report. Patel has ramped up the FBI’s use of the lie-detector tests—often deemed too unreliable to use as evidence in criminal courts—in order to keep tabs on his own people and stamp out leaks.

The fallout from the Epstein files flop led to media reports indicating Patel and Bongino were planning to resign amid their purported feud with Bondi.

FBI Director Kash Patel says he's not leaving the agency. "The conspiracy theories just aren’t true, never have been. It’s an honor to serve the President of the United States @realDonaldTrump — and I’ll continue to do so for as long as he calls on me," he wrote on X.

Since Kash Patel assumed charge as the Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agency has intensified its reliance on polygraph tests — not just to guard national secrets, but to test employee loyalty as well,

For years, Patel and other Trump allies have deflected from these basic facts by focusing solely on what’s become known as the Steele dossier and how it was used by the FBI to obtain that surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a little-known foreign policy adviser for Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The Justice Department appeared to acknowledge in an unusual statement this week the existence of investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.

In his announcement, Kash Patel, ... News about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Justice Department appeared to acknowledge in an unusual statement this week the existence of investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan

After 50 years in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington, D.C., the FBI will move headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building.