"CHRIS COONS: Director, I have to ask you one last question. You attended the Olympics in Milan. How much did your trip cost? And to what extent did that help you carry out your mission as director of the FBI? KASH PATEL: I greatly appreciate the question, senator. As you know, the FBI and [Department of Homeland Security] are responsible for the security of the Olympics, the World Cup, the F1, the Super Bowl, and everything else. We had 250,000 Americans travel to Milan. We're proud that we stood up our jock there and had zero major security incidences involving American citizens."
"And what we did was we purposely planned that trip around the Olympics because, as I mentioned in my opening, the top cyber criminal from the [Chinese Communist Party] was housed in Italian custody. That while there we were able to work an agreement, an arrangement to have that individual expelled from Italy instead of going back to China, like has so often happened in places like Serbia. And so we accomplished that mission and we kept it quiet and that individual was returned to America two weeks ago, he said."
The FBI director was questioned about a viral trip to the Olympics in Milan and its cost to American taxpayers. He said the FBI and Department of Homeland Security were responsible for security at major events, including the Olympics. He stated that 250,000 Americans traveled to Milan and that there were zero major security incidents involving American citizens. He said the trip was purposely planned around the Olympics to support a separate mission. He claimed a top cyber criminal from the Chinese Communist Party was held in Italian custody and that an agreement was reached to have the individual expelled from Italy rather than returned to China. He said the mission was kept quiet and the individual was returned to America two weeks earlier.
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