'Criminal act': FBI scrambles as leak reveals Kash Patel's 'long segments of leisure time'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

February 25, 2026 8:44AM ET


FBI Director Kash Patel’s taxpayer-funded trip to Italy that culminated with him chugging beer with the U.S. hockey team was revealed Wednesday to have included “long segments of personal and leisure time” after the leak of an internal schedule, a leak that the FBI condemned as a “criminal act,” The New York Times reported.

Patel has defended his trip to Italy during the Olympic games, with the FBI telling the Times that the trip was focused on “strengthening joint counterterrorism coordination” with America’s European allies.

After the Times obtained an internal schedule for Patel’s trip, however, it was revealed that long stretches of time were earmarked for things like “personal time” or “cultural activities.” In response to the leak, the FBI vowed to hold the leaker accountable.

“The leaking of his minute-by-minute schedule is a criminal act that jeopardizes security and will not be taken lightly,” said Ben Williamson, the assistant director for the FBI’s Public Affairs office, speaking with the Times.


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If he's running around getting shit-faced at parties in a foreign country, the HE becomes a jeopardy to the nation's "security".

[travelingthrulife]

1. He works for us.

His schedule is not secret.

[dalton99a]

2. .

The schedule, an unclassified document distributed to federal agencies responsible for staffing events, generally corresponds to the broad outline provided to reporters last week

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/us/politics/kash-patel-fbi-olympics-milan.html

[get the red out]

11. Well "work"

Is probably never an apt description of what he's doing, even at his office.

[ShazzieB]

26. The keyword here being "unclassified."

That right there contradicts the claim that this leak was a security risk.

Leaking that schedule was a courageous act of public service, not a crime. I am very grateful, and I really, really hope that whistle blower doesn't get caught.

[Clouds Passing]

3. Hold Cash accountable.

[thomski64]

6. ..does Krasnov know he was..

..working with European Allies? Cause it doesn't seem like that's still a thiing..

[yourout]

4. Bug eyed bastard belongs in the slammer

[ananda]

25. They all do. Trump and his whole lot.

...

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Yup. He's a national security risk.

Whoever turned him in is a patriot.

[Walleye]

7. I bet our enemies got a big laugh out of it

They are so obsessed with strength and weakness. That was the weakest demonstration I’ve ever seen.

[CanonRay]

8. Funny how the person exposing a crime

becomes the criminal.

[groundloop]

10. Up is down, dark is light, good is evil.....

Orwell was off by a few years but certainly had everything else down pat.

[OMGWTF]

14. We are living in a Venn Diagram of 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, and A Handmaiden's Tale.

[dedl67]

29. Well, they're not burning books yet (that I know of), just banning them.

Burning will probably start shortly.

[KPN]

16. It really was incredibly prescient of Orwell!

[ChicagoTeamster]

9. It's already been let out multiple times that he seldom goes to Quantico and he's suspected of being on drugs.

He skipped the 5 eyes conference with his EU criminal intelligence counterparts to go sightseeing. He misuses the agency's aircraft and he went to the Olympics to party with the men's hockey team.

[Six117]

12. The reality is these are the worst of the worst people.

No amount of lying changes that.

[OMGWTF]

15. T💩p didn't drain the swamp, he swamped the drain.

[Martin68]

19. True that. Trump blocked the inflow of clean water and re-routed sewage flow directly into the system.

The recent disastrous sewage leak into the Potomac is a metaphor for the administration's effect on DC and the rest of the country.

[KPN]

17. As were Nazis ... there is absolutely no hyperbole in that comparison or your statement whatsoever.

[Gum Logger]

21. Given Fox's twisted words

there may be hyperbole that could suffice

[KPN]

24. Yes, and plenty of it!

[GiqueCee]

13. Ahem...

... the person who released that information was NOT a "leaker," he or she was a whistleblower. BIG fuckin' difference. Patel is the security risk, not the person who dimed him out. Patel is grotesquely incompetent and has NO business in a position of such responsibility. He, like everyone else in this godforsaken regime, is an obscene disgrace to the FBI, and to the country. For that matter, "obscene disgrace" describes the entire Republican Party, and anyone that still votes for them.

[Martin68]

18. Typical of every Trump administration institution. The first priorities are covering up crimes and punishing whistle

blowers.

[orangecrush]

20. Telling the truth is now illegal

[MyOwnPeace]

22. And NEVER forget.........

NONE of these incompetents that were nominated by tRump to 'serve' as directors or cabinet members would be there WITHOUT the approval of the Repuglicons in Congress!

NO, they do not get a 'pass' - THEY approved these idiots to open the doors to corruption and failed leadership!

[nuxvomica]

23. It used to be the cover-up was worse than the crime

But in MAGA calculus, revealing the crime is what's worse than the crime. Sounds like mafia calculus, like "snitches get stitches."

[Buddyzbuddy]

27. "All of the best people."

[SergeStorms]

28. "Strengthening joint counterterrorism coordination."

You absolutely know Patel didn't come up with that lie. He has trouble with two syllable words.

[vapor2]

30. One thing that has bothered me is he used the Swat team to protect his girlfriend

Of course the shit show in Italy is a total abuse of taxpayers dollars