FBI局长卡什·帕特尔呼吁MS NOW不仅要发布更正声明，更应就该网错误报道他已抵达俄罗斯一事道歉。
FBI Director Kash Patel is calling on MS NOW to issue more than a correction after the network falsely reported he had landed in Russia. "MS NOW put me in Russia based on two anonymous sources.
帕特尔周四在X平台发文称：“MS NOW根据两名匿名消息来源将我置于俄罗斯。当时我正在弗吉尼亚州自由大学向执法人员致敬。该网不得不更正其虚假报道。”
I was in Virginia, honoring law enforcement at Liberty University. The network had to correct its false report," Patel wrote on X Thursday. "This was a basic verification failure," he continued.
他继续表示：“这是一次基本的核实失败。他们弄错了我的行踪，也弄错了这届FBI及我们与州、地方和部落执法机构合作的成果。如果一个网络在播出前连我的行踪都无法确认，公众如何能信任其关于我们特工和警官日常工作的报道？
"They were wrong about my location, and they are wrong about the successes of this FBI and our partnership with State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement. If a network cannot confirm where I was before putting it on air, how can the public trust its reporting on the work our agents and officers do every day? "This is bigger than a false story about me.
“这不仅关乎一篇关于我的虚假报道。执法人员在保护社区、将暴力罪犯绳之以法时，理应获得准确的报道。有三方值得道歉：这届FBI、执法界以及美国民众。”
The men and women of law enforcement deserve accurate reporting while they protect communities and take violent criminals off our streets. Three apologies are owed: to this FBI, to the law enforcement community, and to the American People."
MS NOW记者迪拉尼安在吹捧拜登时代犯罪数据后抨击帕特尔的FBI数据“基本上是捏造的”迪拉尼安随后发布了更正声明。
MS NOW REPORTER PANS KASH PATEL'S 'BASICALLY BOGUS' FBI STATS AFTER TOUTING BIDEN-ERA CRIME DATA Dilanian later issued a correction.
FBI局长帕特尔与《纽约时报》就该报声称其记者“遭调查”发生冲突批评界曾猜测，迪拉尼安的虚假报道可能源自FBI内部为暴露泄密者而设的行动。一名FBI官员既不证实也不否认领导层是否进行过此类行动，但表示涉及的两名泄密者“很可能”会因此被识别出来。
FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL, NEW YORK TIMES CLASH OVER PAPER'S CLAIM ITS REPORTER WAS 'INVESTIGATED' There was been speculation among critics that Dilanian's false report was the result of an effort to expose leakers within the FBI. An FBI official would neither confirm nor deny whether leadership had conducted such an operation but said the two leakers involved would "likely" be identified as a result.
“我们一直在追查泄密者，”这名FBI官员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
"We are always hunting leakers," the FBI official told Fox News Digital.