Exclusive: Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say

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Source: Reuters

Exclusive: Kash Patel removed as acting ATF director, replaced by Army Secretary, sources say

By Sarah N. Lynch, Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart
April 9, 2025 1:39 PM EDT * Updated 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - FBI Director Kash Patel was removed as the Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and replaced by U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, seven people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

Driscoll will continue to serve as Army Secretary while he also oversees the ATF, an arm of the U.S. Justice Department, said three of the sources, who were granted anonymity to discuss personnel matters that were not yet public.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-director-replaced-by-army-secretary-sources-say-2025-04-09/

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It seems he didn't bother to show up.

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/04/kash-patel-axed-as-atf-director-after-ghosting-job/

Kash Patel Axed As ATF Director After Ghosting Job
April 9, 2025

[Historic NY]

1. Hard to commute from Vegas

[MayReasonRule]

3. LMAO...

[IronLionZion]

6. Maybe he's investigating the shady stuff in sin city

[Prairie Gates]

11. Life's tough when you're living in another man's Las Vegas mansion and playing pick-up hockey

[Historic NY]

20. Is that what they call it?

[in2herbs]

2. Why should F47 care whether or not Patel shows up for work or not??? I have nothing to base this

comment on but would it be easier for F47 to declare martial law with military in positions of authority??

[odins folly]

16. What military?

Secretary of the Army is a civilian...

[obamanut2012]

4. This is to get a loyalist military general in to mix military and law enforcement

this is not funny, it's bad.

[lonely bird]

13. Yeah

Military in charge of civilian law enforcement agencies is not good at all.

[odins folly]

17. Secretary of the Army

Is a civilian post....

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

18. My first thought upon reading the OP...

... another one of the GOP/RNC/Putin, "Oops, did I do dat"?

[yellow dahlia]

19. Yikes. n/t

[EYESORE 9001]

5. FBI & ATF

How can you be in two places at once when you’re really nowhere at all?

I hope this is a prelude to a splashy & embarrassing departure from the FBI, along with any further involvement with US government. Unless it’s an extended stay in a federal prison.

[Marcuse]

7. "We don't need no ATF. Keep"the.gobermint away from my alcohol, tobacco and firearms."

[doc03]

8. So he is the first of Trump's loonies to go. nt

[Retrograde]

9. He's still in charge of the FBI, IIRC

My money's still on Rubio being the first to go

[doc03]

10. Oh great still in FBI IIRC.

[ToxMarz]

12. Oooh, Patel got DOGE'd!

[obamanut2012]

14. No he didn't -- he still is the FBI Director

[Safe as Milk]

25. ...who can't leave Vegas because it's too much fun. n/t

[Hassler]

15. Leon finally found a remote worker

Not working to fire.

[BoRaGard]

21. Could Patel be off on another Gourmet G.O.P. Golf junket?

Like the G.O.P. Golfer-in-Chief, Krasnov?

Asking for the meek,
who Christ promised would inheirit the Earth.

[Bengus81]

22. Wow...he finally found waste,fraud and ABUSE. All done by a Republican

No shock there.............

[Scrivener7]

23. Thank God he has his little side gig at the FBI to fall back on.

[travelingthrulife]

24. Such responsible people these are!

And yet all they do is whine and complain against American workers.

[COL Mustard]

26. One good thing about it....

Maybe the officer's clubs will get cheap booze this way.