At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Thomas Massie asks FBI Director Kash Patel whether the FBI holds the 302 documents in which victims name the people who abused them. Patel says the FBI has reviewed them, though he can't say he has personally. Massie asks how he could tell the Senate there are no names. Patel answers that the Justice Department and FBI don't release victims' names or information they consider not credible.
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- Who
- Rep. Thomas Massie
- Where
- hearing - House Judiciary Committee
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- 45 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Read the transcript
Are the 302 documents in the FBI's possession? They reviewed all that, yes sir. And so have you reviewed those 302 documents that were the victim's name, the people who victimized them? If I personally know, but the FBI has. So how can you sit here and in front of the Senate and say there are no names? I said all named one today. I said we are not in the we are not in the practice at the Department of Justice FBI of releasing victims names That is not what we do. We are also not in the habit of releasing Incredible information. That's not what we do, but multiple authorities have looked at the entirety of what we okay I gotta move on here.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.