FBI Director Kash Patel made a surprise announcement about the future of unreleased files in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, telling a U.S. Senate committee hearing on Thursday that many of the final documents and video files will be made public in the “near future.”
While testifying about the status of the Bureau’s budget and his effort to purge career bureaucrats stymying the administration’s agenda, Patel took questions from Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) who asked if he plans to release “all the information” about Epstein’s abuse of underage girls and the events surrounding his 2019 death in a poorly-monitored jail cell.
“Are you going to release all the information about that?” Kennedy asked.
Patel replied, “Senator, we are working through that right now with the Department of Justice.”
Asked how long it may take, he responded, “In the near future.”
“We’ve been working on that and we’ve been doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn’t put out into the ether information that is irrelevant for production for production [to] the public.”
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🚨BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel announces everything on Epstein will be released “in the near future.”
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