New Delhi, May 6 -- FBI Director Kash Patel has accused the FBI of misleading a secret surveillance court in order to obtain warrants used to monitor President Donald Trump and members of his circle during the 2016 presidential campaign and the years that followed.

Patel speaking to Fox News alleged that political actors used unverified intelligence to trigger federal surveillance.

"It took me two years of my life to prove the following: that a political party in the United States of America in the 21st century would go overseas and hire some bogus intelligence asset to manufacture fraudulent, fake, unverified information," Patel said.

He continued: "And then take those packaged lies that they had paid for with campaign finance funds a...