FBI Director Kash Patel went on Fox News this week and put three numbers on the board: 3,400 child predators arrested, 7,200 children located or rescued, and 3 million pedophile accounts dismantled on the Tor network. He said all of it is up 99 percent over the best year of the Biden administration.
“Just think about the 7,200 kids that we found that got to go home,” Patel said. “That means kids are being protected at levels that are simply unheard of.”
To get there, Patel said the bureau pulled 1,500 employees out of Washington and put them in the field permanently, working alongside state and local law enforcement.
“We didn’t just do the physical work on the streets,” Patel said. “We went to the cyber community and we dismantled 3 million pedophile accounts off the Tor network where these predators prey on our children and think they can hide from this FBI. They can’t.”
The interview came the same week Patel announced the results of Operation Grayskull. The global operation targeted four major child sexual abuse websites on the dark web and produced 19 arrests in the United States, with additional arrests in seven other countries.
Patel said many of those arrested had no prior criminal record.