Ethics Experts Sound the Alarm on Patel’s Qatar Connection

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State Democracy Defenders Action sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding FBI nominee Kash Patel’s recently revealed financial relationship with the government of Qatar.

Read the letter here.

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