Kash Patel pursuing 'highly unorthodox' move to torment outspoken Trump critic: report

FBI Director Kash Patel is pressing to publicly release a decade-old investigative file involving a prominent Democratic critic of President Donald Trump and a suspected Chinese intelligence operative, although the lawmaker was never formally accused of wrongdoing.

Patel has directed San Francisco FBI agents to quickly redact the files for public release as part of an aggressive campaign to investigate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), a vocal Trump critic and Democratic gubernatorial candidate...