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FBI Director Kash Patel spoke in entrance of the Home Intelligence Committee proper thru the Annual Worldwide Threats Evaluation Listening to on Thursday, which additionally integrated appearances by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. As RedState shared earlier, Ratcliffe detailed what the U.S. knew about Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities forward of the most stylish joint strikes with Israel.  

In section of his remarks, Patel shared an inventory of the administration’s “historic” wins in his division proper thru the principle twelve months of Trump 47: 

.@FBIDirectorKash lays out the stats of the FBI’s historic first twelve months below President Trump:

– 112% amplify in violent offenders arrested
– 20% decrease in homicides, robberies
– Disrupted 1,800 prison gangs
– Seized ample fentanyl to abolish 178 million Americans
– 490%… pic.twitter.com/dR4wlAp7x1

— Like a flash Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 19, 2026

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.@FBIDirectorKash lays out the stats of the FBI’s historic first twelve months below President Trump: 

– 112% amplify in violent offenders arrested 

– 20% decrease in homicides, robberies 

– Disrupted 1,800 prison gangs 

– Seized ample fentanyl to abolish 178 million Americans 

– 490% amplify in arrests of on-line diminutive one predators 

– Situated 6,200 missing adolescents 

– 300 human traffickers arrested – Arrested seven of the FBI’s High Ten Most Wished

But in any other section of what he acknowledged, Dir. Patel shared that combatting the CCP (Chinese Communist Celebration) has been partly hamstrung by solutions predicament forth in regulation in prior administrations by CFIUS — the Committee on International Funding in the US. He outlined that it has forced them to search out assorted avenues in taking over Chinese actions come militia bases in our field of birth. 

“We halve our capabilities, with folks like CFIUS, when it comes to the purchases of land around military bases; that [restriction] only extends one mile under the current law,” he acknowledged.

As he put it, they’ve had to fetch “creative” in a number of operations this past twelve months. 

“TAKING ON THE CCP”: @FBIDirectorKash explains how the FBI is getting “creative” to counter threats from Communist China right here in the US.

Working with relate and native partners, the FBI seized a 400-acre farm owned by a CCP official in Texas and helped relate officials… pic.twitter.com/LU7tsfUbAB

— Sigh Armor (@StateArmor) March 19, 2026

“TAKING ON THE CCP”: 

@FBIDirectorKash explains how the FBI is getting “creative” to counter threats from Communist China right here in the US. Working with relate and native partners, the FBI seized a 400-acre farm owned by a CCP official in Texas and helped relate officials shut down a CCP drilling center off the soar of Louisiana that used to be believed to be stealing info from Americans.

Patel spoke about two ops the FBI done with the abet of “state and local partners.” In the principle one, a Chinese official owned a big farm in Texas:

“But because he was outside the reach of the CFIUS law, the FBI executed an unlawful possession of firearms criminal complaint. We seized the land in its entirety, and that CCP official is back in mainland China. We are working to get him back here.”

Then he gave the 2nd instance, on a possible cyberintelligence field by the CCP they thwarted:

“Off the coast of Louisiana, we worked with Governor Landry’s team on drilling sites…because, again, they were outside the whole CFIUS and the one-mile radius,” Dir. Patel acknowledged. “With the intelligence we were able to provide our state and local authorities, they shut down that CCP drilling center, which we believed was actually used to provide and steal data and intelligence” from Americans.

This recent creativity atmosphere is according to the part I wrote on Wed., with the dynamic recent collaboration between the FBI and the IRS to look at and shut down the ability of modern nonprofit organizations to fund Antifa’s violence across the country. They’re discovering workarounds on that, too, with authorized guidelines playing receive-up on taking apart and bringing domestic dread organizations to justice.

READ MORE; Investigative Arm of IRS, FBI Reach Essential Turning Point, Dig Into Nonprofits That Fund Antifa Actions

China Can Wait: Trump Needs to Extend Beijing Summit to Factor in Iran

DNI Gabbard additionally spoke to the Senate’s counterpart committee on Wednesday, as my colleague Bob Hoge wrote.

Once Patel wrapped up his answers on Thursday, Home Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR-01) suggested him that, in step with how he described his division’s expertise with it, CFIUS sounds “inadequate at this point,” and suggested that Congress “could do something legislatively…to provide some broader authority to address” the challenges the regulation has been posing to regulation enforcement operations. And the director answered that they would “love” if that can also occur.

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