“We will bring everything we find to the DOJ, fully appreciated and transparently sowed to the American people,” Kash Patel told the Senate hearing.
US authorities will soon release the file with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, FBI Director Kash Patel, in Congress’s testimony on May 8.
“In the near future,” Patel told Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) at a hearing in Washington after being asked when the FBI thought they would finish processing the materials and release them.
“Before I die?” Kennedy stopped.
“Senators, we’re working on that, we’re doing it in a way that protects the victims and we’re trying not to put it into etheric information that’s irrelevant to the public, such as CSAM.”
He said the FBI is working with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the issue.
The February DOJ released several Epstein-related files, but documents containing flight logs from Epstein’s planes had already been released in court.
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Attorney General Pam Bondy told reporters outside the White House this week that the FBI is reviewing tens of thousands of videos on Epstein’s property.
“There are tens of thousands of Epstein videos with kids and child pornography, and there are hundreds of casualties, and that’s what they’re experiencing now,” Bondy said. “The FBI is passing through it with great enthusiasm.”
When President Donald Trump was asked about the issue on April 22, he told reporters:
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring children for prostitution. After his release, he spent time with some of the world’s most famous people, many of whom say they are unaware of his alleged crimes.
In 2019, Epstein was arrested by federal authorities and accused him of being a minor in sex trafficking.
Epstein passed away while awaiting trial at a New York City detention facility. The city’s medical inspector determined his death was a suicide.
Others, including pathologist Michael Baden, hired by Epstein’s family, have shown that the death was, or perhaps, murder.
“Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself, or did someone kill him?” Kennedy asked Patel Thursday.
“Senator, I think he hangs in a cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center,” Patel said.
