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EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel EXPOSED for 'BOGUS arrest numbers' just ONE DAY after boasting to Congress - Deadline - MS NOW
MS NOW is exclusively reporting that Kash Patel’s FBI has “imposed new policies” that inflate arrest numbers and “overstate the bureau’s progress in stemming crime, according to a half dozen law enforcement sources with knowledge of the changes.” This news comes on the heels of yesterday’s hearing on Capitol Hill, where Patel sidestepped questions about his conduct from Senate Democrats by boasting about said arrests.
Nicolle Wallace is joined by Carol Leonnig, who broke this story alongside colleague Ken Dilanian. - Aired on 05/13/2026.
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In a Senate hearing on Tuesday, the FBI director dodged questions about his behavior and leadership, instead pointing to arrest data that current and former agents say is manipulated.
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https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-insiders-kash-patel-is-padding-the-stats-to-boost-his-record-of-arrests
But Patel’s FBI has imposed new policies that inflate these numbers and overstate the bureau’s progress in stemming crime, according to a half dozen law enforcement sources with knowledge of the changes.
For example, the FBI began counting thousands of arrests of immigrants that occurred when bureau agents accompanied the federal immigration officers who made the arrests as part of surges targeting the Minneapolis area, Memphis and other cities. Such cases are not ones the bureau had previously recorded as a bureau arrest, the people said.
An MS NOW review of changes in the FBI’s Most Wanted list during Patel’s tenure also found that the FBI manipulated that iconic bureau program to falsely suggest rapid progress; in that time, the bureau quickly added the names of some fugitives just hours or days before agents capture them. ....
But at Patel’s direction last year, FBI field offices were instructed to count as FBI arrests any suspects detained when FBI personnel were simply present or assisting, including when another federal agency or a local police department made the arrest and led the casework, according to three current and two former law enforcement personnel familiar with the practice.
That double counting of arrests — by either the local police or another law enforcement agency making the arrest as well as the FBI when it is present — generated dramatic spikes in FBI stats from late 2025 through early 2026, when the FBI ordered that thousands of agents nationwide join teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surging into targeted cities to arrest and deport immigrants, including in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The duplicate counting didn’t remove more suspects from the streets, said the three people, who asked to speak confidentially about the policy change for fear of retribution. But it did give Patel a data point he could cite about rising FBI arrests.
FBI headquarters has also pressed field offices since last year to increase the number of arrests FBI agents make in their own cases, one current and another former FBI official said, and to push to make arrests even when agents don’t expect they can win a conviction.....
Of the six fugitives caught since Patel was sworn, four were seized within a month of the FBI leadership elevating them to the top of the Ten Most Wanted list. Two of those four were grabbed within 24 hours of being added to the list, according to the FBI.
The most striking example is that of Samuel Ramirez Jr., who was wanted on suspicion of killing two women. He was apprehended in Culiacán, Mexico, in March, just one hour and 13 minutes after FBI leadership placed him on the Most Wanted list, according to an FBI news release. The FBI would plan for days in advance of any operation to capture a violent fugitive, according to current and former agents who say this quickie addition was made strictly to improve Patel’s stats.
For example, the FBI began counting thousands of arrests of immigrants that occurred when bureau agents accompanied the federal immigration officers who made the arrests as part of surges targeting the Minneapolis area, Memphis and other cities. Such cases are not ones the bureau had previously recorded as a bureau arrest, the people said.
An MS NOW review of changes in the FBI’s Most Wanted list during Patel’s tenure also found that the FBI manipulated that iconic bureau program to falsely suggest rapid progress; in that time, the bureau quickly added the names of some fugitives just hours or days before agents capture them. ....
But at Patel’s direction last year, FBI field offices were instructed to count as FBI arrests any suspects detained when FBI personnel were simply present or assisting, including when another federal agency or a local police department made the arrest and led the casework, according to three current and two former law enforcement personnel familiar with the practice.
That double counting of arrests — by either the local police or another law enforcement agency making the arrest as well as the FBI when it is present — generated dramatic spikes in FBI stats from late 2025 through early 2026, when the FBI ordered that thousands of agents nationwide join teams of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surging into targeted cities to arrest and deport immigrants, including in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The duplicate counting didn’t remove more suspects from the streets, said the three people, who asked to speak confidentially about the policy change for fear of retribution. But it did give Patel a data point he could cite about rising FBI arrests.
FBI headquarters has also pressed field offices since last year to increase the number of arrests FBI agents make in their own cases, one current and another former FBI official said, and to push to make arrests even when agents don’t expect they can win a conviction.....
Of the six fugitives caught since Patel was sworn, four were seized within a month of the FBI leadership elevating them to the top of the Ten Most Wanted list. Two of those four were grabbed within 24 hours of being added to the list, according to the FBI.
The most striking example is that of Samuel Ramirez Jr., who was wanted on suspicion of killing two women. He was apprehended in Culiacán, Mexico, in March, just one hour and 13 minutes after FBI leadership placed him on the Most Wanted list, according to an FBI news release. The FBI would plan for days in advance of any operation to capture a violent fugitive, according to current and former agents who say this quickie addition was made strictly to improve Patel’s stats.
Patel is a fraud who is manufacturing stats to look good to trump