FBI fires response group head after jet uproar

Steven Palmer, a 27-year FBI veteran who led the critical incident response group, was fired after Director Kash Patel grew furious over press coverage of his use of an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling event, Bloomberg Law reported. Palmer is the third leader of the unit dismissed under Patel since February. Flight logs showed Patel’s plane near Penn State on Oct. 25 and later in Nashville before tracking was blocked. Patel has not commented; his spokesman defended the travel. Separately, a Michigan defense lawyer called Patel’s Halloween plot claims “hysteria and fearmongering.”

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