New Kash Patel report details FBI Director's bourbon habit; Trump's Milan Olympics reaction revealed

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson touts crime rates as ‘dropping across the board’ in a statement accompanying the report.

George Hill, a former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst, told The Atlantic that handing out liquor at the premier law-enforcement agency frightens him and called for standards to apply to everyone, especially the boss.

Following the missing bottle, Kurt Siuzdak told Fitzpatrick that several FBI agents contacted him for legal assistance after Patel threatened to polygraph and prosecute them over the missing bottle; Siuzdak called the episode a 'sh**show.'

The FBI said that handing out customized liquor bottles was within the bureau’s ethics code and that gifting 'bottles in question are part of a tradition in the FBI that started well over a decade ago,' though it did not provide evidence of past directors handing out such gifts.

Patel wrote on X: 'For the very concerned media — yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys- Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth,' Patel wrote on X after the locker-room video was posted.

The article notes Patel's Italy trip occurred alongside the shooting of an armed man who entered the security perimeter of Mar-a-Lago; Patel insisted the trip was not solely for the Olympics but also to meet Italian law enforcement and U.S. agencies providing security at the event.

NBC News reported that former President Donald Trump was disappointed in Patel’s Milan trip, telling him he was unhappy about the beer-chugging video and Patel’s use of government aircraft for the trip to Milan.

The Atlantic reported that one of the personalized bottles was put up for online auction and purchased by the outlet; the seller claimed the bottle had been a gift from Patel at a Las Vegas event. The outlet noted Patel had used a Justice Department plane to transport these bottles.

Patel reportedly delivered an entire case of the personalized Woodford Reserve bottles to the FBI training facility in Quantico, Virginia, for a so-called UFC training seminar; one bottle went missing there, which, according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, a retired agent who has aided FBI agents with legal problems, caused him to 'lose his mind.'

Patel reportedly brought personalized bourbon bottles to Milan for the Winter Olympics and was caught on video chugging beer with the Team USA Men’s Olympic hockey team; at least one bottle was left behind in the Italian locker room.