The FBI director, 45, currently leads the nation's top law enforcement agency.
The FBI director supervises 37,000 personnel in 55 US field offices, plus 350 satellite offices and more than 60 international posts.
He quickly rose among the Trump administration after taking a role as a security advisor in 2019, and in twenty-twenty took on the role chief of staff to the Pentagon leader.
The director, born to Indian immigrants, is a ex-defense attorney and federal prosecutor.
At his appointment review, Patel denied keeping a list of "deep state" enemies, and minimizing contentious comments he had made, such as referring to investigators who investigated Trump as "criminal gangsters".
In his memoir titled Government Gangsters, published in twenty-twenty-three, he advocated a purge of what he described as "state oppression" within the FBI by dismissing "high-level officials".
