Just the News<\/a>, also said investigators have identified potential new criminal activity involving the misuse of federal law enforcement and intelligence resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe are looking at so many different leads on criminal activity by those who are in positions of power, and we\u2019re not going to stop until every single one of those is fully exposed,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked if more indictments against officials accused of weaponizing government may be ahead, he said: \u201cThe documents are provided either to Congress or the courts of law, and we make every referral we can under the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese indictments that you\u2019ve seen, and the ones that you\u2019re going to see coming up here in this near future, are just the beginning,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The director, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has directed his team to locate and release tens of thousands of pages of documents that have long been withheld from Congress. These records reportedly detail misconduct within federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies, covering controversies ranging from Russiagate and the Ukraine impeachment inquiry to the January 6 Capitol riot and the FBI\u2019s raid on Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those documents have already resulted in charges against former FBI Director James Comey, who was indicted for allegedly making false statements to obstruct a congressional investigation into media leaks, and in Thursday\u2019s indictment of former National Security Advisor John Bolton for mishandling classified materials, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel urged Americans to be patient, explaining that the corruption and abuses tied to what he described as a \u201cweaponized government\u201d were developed over many years and will take time to fully expose and dismantle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have to remind the audience of one thing. Everybody\u2019s like, it\u2019s seven months. What have you guys been doing? Well, they spent 20 years building this diseased temple of corruption,\u201d he told Just the News. \u201cIt takes a little bit of time to defeat it and beat it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m not asking you to trust me. I\u2019m asking you to look at the work the men and women of the FBI have done so far in these seven, eight months, and just imagine what we\u2019re going to do come the year\u2019s end,\u201d he added, before the conversation turned to the left-wing domestic terrorist organization Antifa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel said the FBI has made significant strides in tracing the funding and leadership networks behind anarchist groups like Antifa, which he said have fueled unrest in American cities, launched attacks on ICE agents enforcing immigration laws, and helped stoke antisemitic movements on college campuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Patel, early evidence suggests that some of the financial and logistical support for these groups may be coming from hostile foreign actors as well as U.S.-based nonprofit organizations that currently enjoy tax-exempt status from the IRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLook, the thing I can tell you is that money doesn\u2019t lie, and the thing we\u2019re doing at the FBI is following the money,\u201d Patel said. \u201cAnd thanks to President Trump, we now have Antifa designated, rightfully so, as a domestic terror organization. And we have had multiple investigations going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the investigations are \u201cmapping out the money, and we are using social media and the influencers that the President had here just this last week, because they\u2019re the ones on the ground, getting us ground level intelligence, because law enforcement isn\u2019t able to enter these spaces, and these people are brave enough to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patel\u2019s remarks came shortly after a federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two individuals allegedly connected to Antifa on terrorism charges related to a July attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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