Kashyap Pramod Patel is the 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), confirmed by the Senate in February 2025 following the forced resignation of Christopher Wray. A fiercely loyal ally of President Trump and former public defender, Patel rose to prominence as the chief author of the "Nunes Memo," which exposed alleged FISA abuses during the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign. Patel’s tenure at the FBI is defined by his absolute, unapologetic mandate to purge the bureau of what he views as entrenched, partisan bureaucrats ("The Deep State"). Upon taking office, he immediately initiated sweeping investigations into the agents and leadership involved in the prior criminal indictments against Donald Trump. Pledging to "let good cops be cops," Patel has systematically decentralized the FBI, forcefully relocating thousands of agents out of Washington, D.C., and into the American interior while entirely dismantling the agency's focus on right-wing domestic extremism in favor of targeting transnational gangs and perceived media leaks.