At a Senate hearing, Dick Durbin asks FBI Director Patel whether a whistleblower told Attorney General Bondi the New York field office was withholding Epstein records. Patel twice says he is "not familiar with that whistleblower." Durbin says the FBI was told to flag documents mentioning President Trump, and that the July memo saying there is no incriminating client list was unsigned. The answer he gets: "Would you prefer I've used auto pen?"
The receipt
- Who
- Dick Durbin
- Where
- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
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- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
You should. Director Patel, to your knowledge, did a whistleblower ever make a disclosure to Attorney General Bondi indicating that the New York field office was withholding Epstein -related records? I'm not familiar with that whistleblower. You know that there was such a whistleblower? I'm not familiar with that whistleblower. In response to the blowback she received, Attorney General Bondi also pushed the the FBI to review approximately 100 ,000 Epstein related records on an arbitrarily short deadline in March, and the FBI was directed to flag any documents that mentioned President Trump. Nothing came of that review until July, when DOJ and FBI released an unsigned memorandum, stating there is no incriminating client list. Why was this July 7th memorandum unsigned? Would you prefer I've used auto pen? Did you?
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.