Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she would vote against the confirmation of Kash Patel as the FBI director citing his past comments which, as the republican senator said, did not suit an FBI director. In the context of prosecutors resigning after facing pressure on how to handle certain cases and FBI agents facing firing over their work on Capitol Riots cases, Collins said the FBI director should be apolitical.
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