(CNN) — Top officials at FBI headquarters were tracking the outbreak of violence in Mexico on Sunday after its military killed a drug cartel boss when social media erupted with viral images of Director Kash Patel chugging beer in the locker room celebration of the Olympic gold medal-winning US men’s hockey team.
The FBI for days fought off criticism of the hockey-loving Patel’s trip on the agency plane to Italy for what the bureau said was long-planned official business, which coincided with the medal round of play for Team USA.
Much of the criticism centers on Patel’s use of an FBI Gulfstream jet for personal travel since taking office. It’s a criticism that has also dogged previous FBI directors, and earlier, attorneys general. And Patel himself, before…
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