The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is alleging that Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, is “personally directing the ongoing purge” of bureau employees.

A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that Kash Patel had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of agents at the bureau.

A senator has accused Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, of orchestrating the purge currently underway at the agency despite not yet receiving Senate confirmation. Democrat Dick Durbin wrote in a Tuesday letter to the Justice Department’s watchdog that he had “received highly credible information from multiple sources” that Patel is behind the ongoing removal of agents who investigated Trump.