Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are demanding FBI Director Kash Patel take an alcohol-abuse test or testify under oath after allegations surfaced that excessive drinking has hindered his official duties.
In a letter to Patel, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, requested the director take and submit a test used to assess harmful alcohol consumption accompanied by a sworn statement attesting to the accuracy of his answers — in addition to documents related to Patel’s security clearance along with associated internal notes — by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
“There are numerous accounts that you consume alcohol to the point of illness, direct profanity-laced outbursts at support staff, and pass out drunk behind locked doors in episodes making you so unreachable that agents have had to fetch SWAT-level breaching equipment to awaken you,” Raskin wrote to Patel.