Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel slammed a left-leaning news outlet over a report stating that the Department of Justice doesn’t allow “perp walks.”

MSNBC legal analyst Barb McQuade said the Department of Justice policy prohibits the act, which sees those arrested being walked in front of news cameras.

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Patel, however, pointed out that the outlet “slobbered all over” the “perp walks” of Roger Stone, Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon.

“BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon… MSNBC has no facts and no audience. In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved,” Patel wrote in a post on X.

McQuade had been responding to an MSNBC report that an FBI agent had been fired for not arresting and “perp walking” former FBI Director James Comey. She responded to Patel, saying that the Trump administration was more interested in settling scores than in law enforcement.

“The Trump administration cares more about settling scores than about effective law-enforcement,” she posted on X. “Any perp walk, defined as deliberately parading a defendant before the cameras without any legitimate law-enforcement purpose, is a violation of DOJ policy and the fourth amendment. If it happened to Navarro or Stone or anyone else, it was wrong.”

She also argued that the arrests of Stone and Bannon did not constitute “perp walks” and the arrest of Navarro in an airport earned “the FBI the wrath of a judge.”

A U.S. Marshals directive effective from 2011 says that DOJ policy does not permit “perp walks.”

“Departmental policy strictly prohibits the facilitation by DOJ personnel in what is commonly called a ‘perp walk’ by tipping off the media prior to arrests or arranging for an individual in custody to be paraded in front of staged cameras,” it says.

It’s unclear if the policy has changed.

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A New York court ruled in 2000 that staged “perp walks” violate the arrestee’s Fourth Amendment rights.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the FBI and the DOJ for comment, but did not receive a response.