{"id":360210,"date":"2026-07-11T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/lawmakers-probe-fbi-dir-kash-patels-fbi-jet-use-bmw-purchases\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:00:08","slug":"lawmakers-probe-fbi-dir-kash-patels-fbi-jet-use-bmw-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/lawmakers-probe-fbi-dir-kash-patels-fbi-jet-use-bmw-purchases\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers probe FBI Dir. Kash Patel&#8217;s FBI jet use, BMW purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/5D8ZCP83U6A\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Lawmakers probe FBI Dir. Kash Patel's FBI jet use, BMW purchases\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5D8ZCP83U6A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked FBI Director Kash Patel to defend his use of FBI aircraft and purchase of BMWs in a letter obtained by House and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and reviewed by CNN, an indication that the powerful Republican chairman is conducting his own oversight of Patel\u2019s controversial spending of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI defended Patel\u2019s travel costs in a social media post saying, \u201cThis FBI is more efficient and effective in every way\u201d and claimed his personal travel was much lower than former directors Chris Wray and James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Grassley probes FBI director Patel&#8217;s travel, spending use<br \/>\n3:56 Investigating &#8216;abuse of FBI jets and tax dollars&#8217;<br \/>\n7:07 Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reacts to Grassley&#8217;s probe of Dir. Patel<\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/p>\n<p>#KashPatel #FBI #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked FBI Director Kash Patel to defend his use of FBI aircraft and purchase of BMWs in a letter obtained by House and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and reviewed by CNN, an indication that the powerful Republican chairman is conducting his own oversight of Patel\u2019s controversial spending of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-360210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawmakers probe FBI Dir. 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