Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It hasn't even been 24 hours, but Cash Patel's

testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday is already raising major alarm bells over whether or not the director

of the FBI was telling the truth to Congress, not just about the news accounts of his

excessive drinking on the job, the administration of polygraph tests at the FBI, or of

firing agents for political reasons, but also about the very statistics that he relied upon

to defend his job amid all those embarrassing headlines. According to

brand new exclusive reporting from our colleagues, Carol Lennox and Ken Delanian, when it comes to the

arrest, Cash Patel boasted about yesterday, quote, Patel's FBI has imposed new policies that inflate

these numbers and overstate the FBI's progress in stemming crime.

That is according to a half dozen law enforcement sources with knowledge of the changes.

Cash Patel's lack of transparency is even causing some from inside the FBI to speak out,

with one current official telling MS now this, quote,

they are absolutely padding the stats and claiming arrest they would not have claimed.

And one former official adds this, quote, agents inside the bureau complained frequently about

Patel's bogus arrest numbers. Cash is definitely engineering things to pad his stats,

the former official said.

Here is what Cash Patel said yesterday before Congress.

We've arrested eight of the top 10 most wanted fugitives

in the world in 14 months.

That's twice as many in the four years combined. That is what

the men and women of the FBI are doing. Well-resourced. Everyone should take a look at this.

If people want to continue the baseless, fraudulent false personal attacks at me, that's great.

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