Various reports indicate that Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll has been chosen to take the lead at ATF in place of current acting director Kash Patel.
Driscoll’s role will be that of acting ATF director, CBS News noted.
USA Today pointed to unnamed DOJ sources, noting, “Driscoll will continue to serve as Army Secretary while he also oversees the ATF, an arm of the U.S. Justice Department.”
The Associated Press indicated, “It was not immediately clear why Patel was replaced” nor was the time of the replacement altogether clear, as the AP indicated one source suggested Patel was actually removed before the removal was announced to “senior ATF leaders.”
Thirty-eight-year-old Driscoll “had served as an adviser to Vice President JD Vance, whom he met when
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