Fresh FBI chief Kash Patel tapped to run ATF as appearing director

FBI Director Kash Patel will likely be tapped to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), two resources showed to Fox Information Virtual on Saturday. 

The scoop comes a pace then Patel was once sworn in because the 9th FBI director in a slender Senate vote. 

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray resigned on the finish of former President Biden’s time period and Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi fired the ATF basic recommend, Pamela Hicks, on Thursday. 

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“Earlier today, I was served official notice from the Attorney General of the United States that I was being removed from my position as the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Department of Justice terminated,” Hicks posted on her LinkedIn web page Thursday, confirming her termination. 

Hicks had served as ATF’s prominent recommend since 2021 beneath the Biden management, and served as deputy prominent recommend for ATF beneath President Donald Trump’s first management. She spent 23 years total as an legal professional inside the Segment of Justice (DOJ), she posted to LinkedIn. 

AG Bondi and previous ATF legitimate Pamela Hicks. (ATF/Getty Photographs)

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“Serving as ATF Chief Counsel has been the highest honor of my career and working with the people at ATF and throughout the Department has been a pleasure,” Hicks persisted in her put up. “I thank my colleagues for their friendship and partnership over the years.” 

Kash Patel is sworn in as FBI director through U.S. Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi within the Indian Treaty Room within the Eisenhower Government Administrative center Construction (EEOB) on Friday. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

“These people were targeting gun owners,” Bondi instructed Fox Information on Thursday of the ATF. “Not gonna happen under this administration.” 

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Each the FBI and ATF are a part of the DOJ.