Emails show FBI Director Kash Patel’s Hawaii trip included ‘VIP snorkel’ at a Pearl Harbor memorial

F****** head of the FBI is on permanent make-a-wish vacation.

Is this an Onion article?

This is gross for so many reasons. Not only is it wildly disrespectful to the service members still in that wreckage (and their families) but anyone who’s been there knows that the ship is still leaking oil. You can see it in the water. You’re swimming in an oil leak you absolute f****** moron.

My father was stationed in Hawaii, and I lived on Oahu as a kid. I started snorkeling there when I was young, and there are countless beautiful places to snorkel on that island. The USS Arizona is not one of them — it’s a graveyard. 1,177 crew members were killed, and more than 900 of them remain entombed in the ship. Choosing that spot for a “VIP snorkel” feels twisted and deeply disrespectful to the people who died there.

His f****** name is Kash and hes a raging alcoholic grifting liar, of course he did.

This dude tried to raid the USS Arizona's liquor cabinet, didn't he? Searching for that "aged at sea" expression. What a colossal POS.

Weird because snorkel tour operators usually won’t let you snorkel if you’re drunk.

VIP snorkel at a memorial is wild. Read the room.

This guy is such a bulgy-eyed c***

Sure glad DOGE cut children, the elderly, and the poor from having any medical care or benefits so we can "save money" to send this moron on a snorkling trip and build a ballroom for the golden calf.

The people who allowed this to happen should be ashamed of themselves too. I lived on Oahu and snorkeled all over the island — there are endless beautiful places to go. The USS Arizona is a graveyard. More than 900 people are still entombed in that ship. It should never have been treated like a snorkeling spot, and it should never be allowed again.

They need to pay everything back that they stole.

Dud gets more vacation days in the last few months than i have the last few years.

Pearl Harbor the war grave?

This guy's whole life is so embarrassing.

Boy he’s sure having a great time on the taxpayer’s dime!

Holy shit. I’ll never forget my time out on the platform. It’s such a somber, sad place, as you see the names of the young men killed and still down there. People are crying, and it’s extremely emotionally moving. He fuckin snorkels around. Every single person who works for this shit, and supports is a fuckhead. Deplorable is too nice a word. I wish them all the absolute worst. F*** ‘em.

Republicans are bad people

The VIP snorkel is the code word for Trumps p****.

~~Tom Haverford~~ Kash Patel speed running controversies that would’ve ended several politicians careers in a sane administration

Rumdog Millionare strikes again!

You just know this guy has called himself "Ka$h Money"

The shit DOGE would be dealing with if it wasn’t a ruse to steal our information and money.

What a f****** piece of shit.

Lol why the f*** am I paying for your dream vacation, Mr. Director?

Next up for Kunt is his rave at Arlington National Cemetary.

VIP Snorkle? Straight to jail! Because of the VIP Snorkle? No, because he’s a POS and a sad example of a human being.

He's just treating his position like a frat boy whose frat bro friend has a rich dad, and he just tags along and does cool rich guy shit.

They wanted America run like a business and they are getting exactly that.

Bro, if you’re going to steal from the government, can you at least not be the lamest piece of shit on the planet?

Maybe he can visit the Killing Fields in Cambodia and get some human bones in a necklace as a souvenir.

Does anyone in this administration have even the slightest shred of actual class?

“…but none going back to at least 1993 has gone snorkeling at the memorial, according to those familiar with their activities and a former government diver who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.” That last bit should tell you all you need to know about his leadership. If you lead an organization where people are afraid to speak up your leadership is…lacking. If that organization is one of the more prominent federal agencies, the people who put you there and confirmed your appointment have no business in the position they’re in.

Can you f****** imagine if anyone in the Obama or Biden administration did this?

For those curious why many bodies of the USS Arizona were never recovered, it's due to several factors. The ship is a mangled, twisted wreck from the explosion. That also makes it every dangerous to swim in. Like others have said, it's still leading oil. Also, the bodies are very badly decomposed. At this point, it would be pointless as, even if you could get to the bodies, it would probably be impossible to identify them. The whole thing is one big graveyard. A memorial to those who died on duty in a horrible sneak attack. Those who lost loved ones who weren't found know where to go to pay their respects. What you don't do is try and snorkel there for many reasons. My god, is there even ONE normal person on Trump's team. Just one?!

Did \*we\* pay for that Ka$hy? O-o This 'orange' timeline sucks.

Ask a career Fed the type of penny pinching bullshit we do every day so that they are seen as good stewards of the tax payers money. This entire administration is basically looting.

It’s a gravesite. I went there in 2002 and a WWII vet was one of the speakers at the inside presentation before they take you out over the water. You could have heard a pin drop as he spoke. He stressed that he and his brother survived, and then survived the war overseas, but there were casualties that went down in the ships and they’re still there. It’s not a vacation spot for a drunken frat boy.

These MF's are supposed to be fiduciary stewards of my hard earned tax dollars and they just fritter it away like they won the l******. FU in the strongest terms possible. That's MY money you goggleyed drunk!

Omg it’s a graveyard. What the f*** is wrong with him?

remember Obama and his fancy mustard and tan suit? I don't want to hear a word from republicans ever again

You just know he peed in the water while snorkeling.

Picture those bug eyes in goggles…..

Literally having a leisurely snorkel trip at the mass grave of US sailors and marines, it's f****** disgraceful. It would be like having a keg party at Arlington. My great uncle died on the USS Arizona and is still entombed in its hull. What a disrespectful thing to do at such a solemn and sacred place.

F*** that morherfucker

this entire administration lies. all the time too. i’d assume at best 10% of anything anyone from this administration says is true. the rest is horse shit. 

Someone needs to chronicle all the shenanigans by this whole administration, the hearings that get no answers, the unlawful executive orders, the gaudiness of the white house decor, all of it and make a huge Wikipedia entry or metabase searchable by particular person etc ..if not for consequence but to preserve history because no one in 100 years will believe all of the concurrent bullshit that is happening to the former greatest nation on earth ....

When he starts to run out of air do his eyes bug into his head?

Bro, this guy is literally just using our money to travel abroad, go to parties, and take his girl wherever she wants to go. 

I don't care. Release the f****** Epstein files

Let me guess his excuse for snorkeling was that it was for “national security”

He is treating his job like a god damn paid vacation.

Having visited this site, and remembering a service member in full dress crying as he explained the detail, this raises such anger in me. Its not nearly as bad as Trump's planned self-love arch in Arlington, but it's close. It will never fail to shock me how vets and soldiers follow this person who actively demeans them constantly.

Where did they find a mask wide enough to not obstruct the vision of either eye?

Everyone in this administration thinks their job is to party.

What a pathetic piece of dog shit Patel is.

I thought "VIP snorkel" was how that imbicile got the gig! Ka$h "no gag reflex" Patel.

Are these f****** people allergic to just doing their f****** jobs and not acting like they're rockstars because they talk shit on cable news

Just another in the vast number of obcene actions by a member of the Trump crime gang

JFC how disrespectful

I'll bet dollars to donuts he pissed in the water while doing it.

I’ve never seen a bigger f****** privileged ass loser in all my entire life.

People need to name the business which they used. Name and shame the company and the assholes who are helping these people do disgusting shit.

The disrespect for the heroes who died there is I hate how much these people don't have respect for veterans Like - the Arizona... Jesus.

Patel makes me think of someone having no business being promoted to the highest tier he can possibly be, and taking complete advantage of it until someone higher notices he's a clown. Problem is the clown fiesta that are the people in charge of him

'VIP snorkel' is probably code for cocaine...

not only should he be fired, but also jailed/deported.

So glad this s#!+ sandwich can take a break from being a massive failure and enjoy himself on our dime. 

This dude is such a doofus. Can't wait for all of them to be investigated endlessly by a Democratic Majority in the House.

Anything but prosecute pedophiles

Dude knows how to have fun on the American dime. Wasting money is truly an art.