New FBI chief Kash Patel tapped to run ATF as performing director

FBI Director Kash Patel can be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), two sources confirmed to Fox Information Digital on Saturday. 

The information comes a day after Patel was sworn in because the ninth FBI director in a slim Senate vote. 

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray resigned on the finish of former President Biden’s time period and Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi fired the ATF basic counsel, Pamela Hicks, on Thursday. 

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Kash Patel, director of the FBI, speaks throughout a swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Friday.  (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)

“Earlier at this time, I used to be served official discover from the Lawyer Normal of america that I used to be being faraway from my place because the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Division of Justice terminated,” Hicks posted on her LinkedIn web page Thursday, confirming her termination. 

Hicks had served as ATF’s chief counsel since 2021 below the Biden administration, and served as deputy chief counsel for ATF below President Donald Trump’s first administration. She spent 23 years total as an lawyer inside the Division of Justice (DOJ), she posted to LinkedIn. 

AG Bondi and former ATF official Pamela Hicks. (ATF/Getty Photographs)

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“Serving as ATF Chief Counsel has been the very best honor of my profession and dealing with the folks at ATF and all through the Division has been a pleasure,” Hicks continued in her put up. “I thank my colleagues for his or her friendship and partnership through the years.” 

Kash Patel is sworn in as FBI director by U.S. Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi within the Indian Treaty Room within the Eisenhower Government Workplace Constructing (EEOB) on Friday. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

“These folks had been focusing on gun homeowners,” Bondi instructed Fox Information on Thursday of the ATF. “Not gonna occur below this administration.” 

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Each the FBI and ATF are a part of the DOJ.