Kashing the Party
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Kash Patel’s Amazing Italian Ice Adventure, a farce in two acts:
Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room
[image or embed]— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) Feb 22, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Glad that the American dressing room has been fully secured:
The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, who has been criticized for blurring the lines between personal recreation and his professional responsibility, spent Sunday celebrating the American hockey team’s Olympic victory in Milan as the bureau was grappling with crises at home.
A video of a euphoric Mr. Patel, a devoted hockey fan who plays the sport himself, was posted on social media, showing him giving a shaka sign — the thumb-and-pinky salute — in the gold-winning team’s locker room as he stood next to Dylan Larkin, the team’s center.
“Congratulations, Team USA!” shouted Mr. Patel while wearing a white jersey and craning his head to get into the frame of a cellphone video with Mr. Larkin, who flashed his gold medal at the camera.
Another video clip showed Mr. Patel chugging most of a beer and splashing the remnants into the air as the hockey players around him cheered. Then one of players, the video showed, draped a gold medal around his neck and he raised his arms in triumph.
Well, it’s not like there are any aborted presidential assassinations or famous missing person cases for the Director of the FBI to be dealing with right now.