Reporter who falsely placed Kash Patel in Russia is back with another election 'bombshell'

The FBI’s social media account roasted leftist reporters for the latest “scoop” that was nothing but hot air.

MS NOW reporters Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig earned online mockery with a report that FBI agents have expressed “deep” and “grave” concerns about how they may be asked by the Trump administration to deal with election fraud.

“As Election Day nears, recent events have prompted some FBI agents to express concern, according to seven people with knowledge of internal discussions among the ranks, that they may be ordered to seize voting machines or take other actions that disrupt election results,” the MS NOW report, published Wednesday, began.

Citing current and former FBI officials, Dilanian and Leonnig claimed some agents “have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud,” noting, of course, that these “individuals requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.”

🚨🚨NEWWWWW — @FBI agents are privately sharing a grave concern in recent days: that they’ll be ordered to seize voting machines or take other legally questionable steps to disrupt the mid-term elections.
@KDilanianMSNOW & me

https://t.co/yRbPEznDqM

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) October 28, 2026

The FBI’s Rapid Response account reacted with a fiery roast on X: “We hear from two high level sources that those concerned agents have ‘just landed in Russia’ – tuning in to MS NOW for more reporting.”

We hear from two high level sources that those concerned agents have “just landed in Russia” – tuning in to MS NOW for more reporting

— FBI Rapid Response (@FBI_Response) October 28, 2026

The reference was, of course, related to Dilanian’s scoop earlier this month when he claimed sources told him that Kash Patel had “just landed” in Russia. But the FBI Director quickly exposed the journo’s “basic verification failure” and demanded apologies.

MS NOW put me in Russia based on two anonymous sources. I was in Virginia, honoring law enforcement at Liberty University. The network had to correct its false report.
This was a basic verification failure. 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. 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.

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 15, 2026

The latest MS NOW “fake news” and the FBI’s response generated plenty of reactions on X.

MS NOW 😂😂😂😂😂. This is awesome, humor from the FBI!

— amy (@amy_CT_USA) October 28, 2026

Bwahaha

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 28, 2026

What a time to be alive, the FBI is actively trolling you Ken and we are all here for it.https://t.co/1jrj2l6i0N

— codupont (@17thbodhisattva) October 28, 2026

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