According to a former Southern District of New York prosecutor, FBI Director Kash Patel was playing fast and loose with the truth during his congressional testimony this past week, in particular when when he was asked about the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files.
Patel’s job performance was put under the microscope this past week in two highly contentious hearings as he tried to fend off questions about the convicted pedophile as well as his conduct overseeing the shooting of far-right gadfly Charlie Kirk.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” former assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Greenberg took exception to Patel’s claims about the Epstein files and why he won’t release them in their entirety.
“That narrative makes no sense as to the release of the files at large,” she told the co-hosts. “What I'd say is Kash Patel said a few things –– first, he said, I legally cannot turn over the Epstein files, the judges are preventing me from doing it, court orders are preventing me from doing it. Not true.”
“There's actually a court order from the Epstein judge that clearly says you can release the Epstein files,” she elaborated. “That would be actually the best way to inform the public. It would be the way that –– rather than the grand jury testimony, that's a snippet of hearsay, This is everything. This is interview reports, this is search warrants, and that is material that is not protected by secrecy rules.”
“And so that is material that can be completely disclosed to the American people,” she explained. “And the logical party to do that is the government. Then he said, ‘Well, we don't, we're not in the business of putting out information that's not credible.’ But you put out Ghislaine Maxwell's interview! And your Department of Justice said that the number two [Todd Blanche], who interviewed her, said he couldn't make a credibility finding, which, by the way, she was not credible.”
“She quite clearly lied in that interview. But if you're going to put out one, how do you not how do you justify not putting out what the victims have said? It doesn't make sense,” she concluded.