00:04Nine hundred sailors are still buried inside that ship.
00:09Their tomb sits at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.
00:12And the director of the FBI just went snorkeling around it.
00:17Kosh Patel runs the FBI.
00:20He controls thousands of agents, federal surveillance infrastructure,
00:24and a budget the size of a small country.
00:27One of the most powerful law enforcement officers on Earth.
00:31But right now, people aren't talking about what he's doing with that power.
00:36They're talking about what he's doing with the plane.
00:39May 10th, 2025.
00:42Patel and his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins,
00:46board the FBI's Gulfstream V and fly from Washington to Philadelphia.
00:52Destination? A George Strait and Chris Stapleton concert.
00:55They watched from a private suite worth $35,000 to $50,000.
01:01The crew waits on overtime until 11pm, then flies them home to Virginia.
01:08Who paid for the suite? Patel refused to say.
01:12This wasn't a one-time thing.
01:14He'd already flown to Penn State to watch Wilkins perform at a pro wrestling event.
01:19He showed up in the Olympic hockey locker room in Milan.
01:23He assigned four SWAT agents and two SUVs to guard her on personal errands at an estimated cost of $1
01:31million a year.
01:33Every trip, every agent, every overtime hour. Taxpayer money.
01:38And then came Hawaii.
01:41The FBI said the trip was official business.
01:45Field office tours, law enforcement meetings, press releases.
01:49What they didn't say, Patel took a VIP snorkel coordinated by the U.S. military around the wreckage of the
01:57USS Arizona.
01:59The Arizona is not a tourist attraction. It's a war grave.
02:04No FBI director going back to at least 1993 had ever done this.
02:10It wasn't on his public schedule. The FBI never disclosed it. Government emails did.
02:16A Navy veteran and Naval Academy historian called it horrifying, as respectful as playing kickball on top of the graves
02:25at Arlington.
02:26A Marine who watches over the site said it felt like a bachelor party.
02:32The FBI called the coverage stupid.
02:35They said Indo-Pacific Command routinely arranges these engagements for government officials.
02:41The White House backed Patel fully.
02:44But here's the detail that cuts through it all.
02:48Before taking this job, Kosh Patel publicly attacked his predecessor for using a government jet for personal travel.
02:56His words?
02:57Chris Ray doesn't need a government-funded GV jet to go on vacation.
03:02Maybe we ground that plane.
03:04He said that, on the record.
03:07Then, he took the job and kept the jet.
03:11Agents across multiple field offices are quietly walking out.
03:15Anybody who can retire has, said one former senior official.
03:19The rest are counting the days.
03:22Power doesn't just corrupt.
03:25It reveals.
03:26It shows you exactly what a person believes the rules are for.
03:30And who they believe the rules are for.
03:33900 men are still at the bottom of that harbor.
03:37They never got to find out.
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