FBI Director Kash Patel has denied rumours that he plans to resign following internal tensions over a Justice Department decision to close the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The speculation had been growing amid criticism from hardline conservatives over the lack of new disclosures in the case.

FBI Director Kash Patel is making bureau staff take polygraph tests to root out anyone who’s been talking trash about him, according to a report. Patel has ramped up the FBI’s use of the lie-detector tests—often deemed too unreliable to use as evidence in criminal courts—in order to keep tabs on his own people and stamp out leaks.

Since Kash Patel assumed charge as the Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agency has intensified its reliance on polygraph tests — not just to guard national secrets, but to test employee loyalty as well,

News about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ... Kash Patel, utiliza pruebas de polígrafo más libremente para intentar frenar las filtraciones de información a los medios. ...

For years, Patel and other Trump allies have deflected from these basic facts by focusing solely on what’s become known as the Steele dossier and how it was used by the FBI to obtain that surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a little-known foreign policy adviser for Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The Justice Department appeared to acknowledge in an unusual statement this week the existence of investigations into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan.

After 50 years in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington, D.C., the FBI will move headquarters to the Ronald Reagan Building.