India, Feb. 23 -- Hours after Elon Musk warned all US federal employees over their jobs if they failed to submit a detailed work report, FBI director Kash Patel instructed his staff to "pause any responses", saying that the agency is in charge of all its reviews.

Patel on Friday was sworn in as the ninth director of the federal bureau of investigation, with the Indian-origin former counterterrorism prosecutor saying that he was living the 'American dream'.

Musk, co-chair of the department of government efficiency and advisor to US president Donald Trump, took to X to announce the arrangement wherein employees will have to furnish a detailed account of what they accomplished at work the past week. "Failure to respond will be taken as a r...