Kash Patel Fumes at Republican Senator During Epstein Grilling: ‘We Have Released All Credible Information’

FBI director Kash Patel fumed at Senator John Kennedy’s (R-LA) Tuesday as he defended his record against the suggestion that he would “have to do more” to answer “the American people’s” questions around Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

The pair locked horns at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday when Kennedy pressed Patel on lingering public suspicion that Epstein’s network extended far beyond the disgraced financier himself.

“I think the central question for the American people is this, they know that Epstein trafficked young women for sex to himself. They wanna know who, if anyone else, he trafficked these young women to. And that’s a very fair question. I wanna know that answer,” Kennedy said, adding, “And I think you’re gonna have to do more to satisfy the American people’s understandable curiosity in that regard.”

Visibly frustrated by the take, Patel fired back, asking for the chance to respond.

“I agree, Senator. What we have done, and just to remind folks, the Epstein case files existed in the two prior administrations, in the Obama administration and the Biden administration, and they didn’t release anything. And there was President Trump in the first administration that renewed charges against Mr. Epstein,” Patel said.

He then credited Trump’s Justice Department with reviving the prosecution, while blaming the 2008 non-prosecution agreement for crippling later investigations.

Patel insisted the FBI has been as forthcoming as legally possible.

“We have released all credible information,” he told Kennedy, emphasizing that the bureau will not disclose unverified allegations or the identities of victims. “I know that’s not gonna satisfy many, many people. But if they wanted it done right, then the investigation from its origination should have been done right.”

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