Jamie Raskin
Role at the time: Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, in a joint letter with Rep. Jim Himes
Response to this claim
FBI Director Kash Patel is scheduled to visit Russia on October 14 and 15, 2026, first stopping in Moscow and then St. Petersburg, with the FSB likely to host him.
“In the interest of national security, we ask you to reconsider. Call off this trip.”
Five-page letter dated October 5, 2026, from the ranking Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees. It asks Patel to cancel a reported two-day trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg that Russia's Federal Security Service would host, and, if he goes ahead, to give a closed-door briefing by October 12 on the trip and on FBI cooperation with Russian and Chinese law enforcement.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case centers on Patel's reported trip to Russia hosted by the FSB. Raskin asks Patel to cancel it on national security grounds, so we used condemns.