Patel Says FBI Is Manhunting Foreign Terrorists Around the Globe
May 26, 2026 · FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation · 0:01:15
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What happened
FBI Director Kash Patel discussed foreign terrorist threats in an interview excerpt carried by the FBI. Patel described, as he stated it, a foreign terrorist organization out of Iran and an individual he identified as a senior member of Tren de Aragua, and said the administration has cleaned up what he characterized as the prior administration’s open border policies.
Patel said, as he stated it, that in the month of December alone the FBI stopped four terrorist attacks affiliated directly with ISIS and other foreign terrorist organizations, involving individuals already in America, spanning California, New York, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas.
He said the FBI is, as he put it, manhunting these people around the globe, putting national security first, and unraveling their exploits and ties to terrorism, adding that the intelligence community and the FBI have no greater priority and have been chasing them down in record numbers, as he stated it.
Why it matters
The remarks document how the administration’s law-enforcement leadership describes its mission and results, providing the attributed record against which its public-safety claims will be assessed.
Scoreboard watch
Patel’s claim, as he stated it, that the FBI stopped four ISIS- and other foreign-terrorist-organization-affiliated attacks in the single month of December is dated and checkable, and is flagged here for the scoreboard editor; no verdict is offered here.
Sources: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, “Director Patel On Foreign Terrorists Facing Justice”, 2026-05-26 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-05-26). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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