FBI stopped 1,100 terrorist attacks since Trump took office: Kash Patel

Patel detailed the crackdown on terrorism during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. The FBI director said that the agency has seen an 80 percent increase in criminal arrests, a 90 percent increase in violent-crime arrests, and a 30 percent increase in arrests involving gangs and criminal enterprises compared with the previous 18 months.

“In the past 18 months, the FBI has helped to locate and identify over 11,000 children who were the victims of crime,” Patel said. That's up 21 percent from the preceding 18 months.”

"In the same amount of time, the FBI has been involved in the arrest of over 5,000 child predators and human traffickers,” he continued. “That's up 13 percent from the preceding 18 months. These predators are the definition of evil, and I applaud your leadership in hunting down these awful people. This all while Democrats stood idly by while Biden-Harris administration lost or couldn't locate tens of thousands of these children.”

"This FBI is making America safe. We, this FBI, have arrested 4,260 foreign terrorist organization-related affiliates. That's up 38 percent, including the fact that this FBI has stopped 1,100 criminal perpetrators from committing terrorist attacks on US soil,” Patel added.

Patel cited several terrorism cases as examples of attacks that were disrupted before they could be carried out. One involved a plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House in the summer. Another involved a case in Michigan in which five people were arrested in a potential terrorist attack for Halloween weekend.

“These attacks did not happen because the FBI and our partners worked around the clock, found the threats and stopped them,” Patel said.

Patel also revealed that the FBI has increased its use of artificial intelligence to process information and assist with investigations. He said that the agency has gone from just two cases involving AI to 140.