FBI Director Kash Patel enraged a key intelligence ally by breaking a vital security assurance, raising further concerns about his suitability for the role.

Patel—nicknamed Keystone Kash for his haphazard approach to law enforcement—had promised the U.K.’s security service agency MI5 that a tech liaison role crucial to its work would be saved.

But, according to the New York Times, the job disappeared anyway—leaving MI5 officials ‘incredulous’ and alarmed about his reliability.

At a closed-door May summit of security chiefs in the Sussex countryside, MI5 Director-General Ken McCallum, 49, had pressed Patel to keep funding for a London-based FBI specialist who supports sensitive surveillance tech.

Veteran liaison posts—especially in London—are seen as crucial for daily joint work agains

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