FBI Director Kash Patel took VIP snorkel at USS Arizona military cemetery during government trip

Government emails obtained by the Associated Press reveal FBI Director Kash Patel participated in a restricted VIP snorkel around the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor during an August 2025 work trip to Hawaii. The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines killed in the 1941 attack, and snorkeling is generally prohibited at the site. The FBI did not publicly disclose the snorkeling session or Patel's extra two days in Hawaii after his official stopover en route to Australia and New Zealand.