Kash Patel, President Donald Trump‘s FBI director nominee, reignited a long-standing feud with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) during his Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.
Patel previously served on the staff for the House Intelligence Committee, where he authored a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act memo that alleged the FBI improperly secured warrants to surveil a former Trump adviser during the 2016 campaign.
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Schiff served as the ranking member on the committee and was one of the loudest voices on Capitol Hill claiming that Trump and his team had been compromised by Russia. The FISA memo is credited with partially debunking those claims.
Schiff opened his Thursday line of questioning by asking Patel about his role in promoting a song recorded by the “J6 Prison…
