FBI director joins US men's hockey team in rowdy locker room celebration of Olympic gold medal

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Kash Patel joined the American men's hockey players successful the locker country Sunday for a rowdy solemnisation of winning the golden medal successful the Winter Olympics.

While helium was successful Milan, the U.S. Secret Service changeable and killed an equipped antheral who had driven into Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's edifice successful Florida. Hours later, astir the clip the crippled against Canada was headed into overtime, Patel posted connected X that the FBI was "dedicating each indispensable resources successful the investigation."

Videos shared connected societal media showed a pumped-up Patel drinking brew from a vessel and spraying the remainder astir the locker room. After 1 of the players draped his golden medal astir Patel's neck, helium joined the players arsenic they jumped up and down.

"There was a menace astatine the president's residence astatine MAL, Americans successful Mexico are facing large threats by cartel members, Nancy Guthrie is inactive missing, and our FBI Director thinks he's a frat bro?!," Xochitl Hinojosa, the spokeswoman for erstwhile Attorney General Merrick Garland, said connected X.

Patel responded to the disapproval by posting that helium was "extremely humbled erstwhile my friends, the recently minted Gold Medal winners connected Team USA, invited maine into the locker country to observe this historical infinitesimal with the boys."

The FBI manager had defended his authoritative travel to Italy by saying helium was going to conscionable with Italian instrumentality enforcement officials and Americans helping to supply information astatine the Olympics. He posted pictures this week of his sojourn to the Milan Joint Operations Center, which helium said was charged with protecting the information of American athletes and each those who traveled to Milan for the Winter Games. He besides posted a photograph of his gathering with the U.S. ambassador to Italy.