FBI Director Kash Patel responded to a subpoena issued by U.S. House Republicans by releasing “hundreds” of documents that are related to the bureau’s Jan. 6 activities, especially the finding of several pipe bombs located outside Democratic and Republican headquarters in the nation’s capital.
The assistant FBI director, Marshall Yates, issued a response in a March 7th letter addressed to lawmakers who were requesting information concerning the investigation into the pipe bombs, stating that the disclosure is a “sign of good faith” about the efforts explain the FBI’s activities for the public.
“As a sign of good faith, we are providing this initial production more than a week ahead of the Committee’s subpoena deadline,” Yates went on to say, according to a copy of the letter that was obtained by the Epoch Times. “But this will not be the last production we will send to satisfactorily comply with the Committee’s subpoena. To that end, we are diligently working to completely comply with your subpoenas.”
The first batch of documents are an initial response to the “diverse and broad subject matters” that were asked about by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, Yates explained, going on to state that more information is on the way with minimal redactions.
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Immediately after Patel was sworn in, Rep. Jordan volleyed a letter to the FBI demanding information on the pipe bomb investigation. He had previously accused director Christopher Wray of “slow-walking” the probe and criticized the Bureau’s use of “confidential human sources” present during the January 6th, 2021, riots at the Capitol.
Patel’s confirmation is expected to shed an authoritative light on the FBI’s J6 activities. Prominent Republicans, including Jordan and others, have suggested that FBI agents were in the motley crowds when unrest fomented, leading to the deaths of several participants, followed by subsequent deaths of several officers in medical episodes. A report by the U.S. inspector general later confirmed that the FBI had placed dozens of informants in the crowd, though no instance of an agent being present has yet surfaced.
Republicans are also seeking explanations for FBI activities around the visitation of school board meetings following a controversial 2021 memo by former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in which he suggested that parental rights groups posed a threat to public teachers and administrators. Information has also been requested by Jordan about a memo from the Bureau’s Richmond office, which described Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass as “violent extremists.”
Wray, who was appointed by the president during his first term, who lost the confidence of Republicans in Congress, made an announcement back in December that he would be stepping down from his position and allow Trump to appoint his successor. Usually, the director of the FBI serves in the role for a decade.
However, Wray stated at the time that Trump made it clear that “he intended to make a change.”
Before being appointed and confirmed as the new FBI director, Patel, who served as a national security advisor to Trump during his first term, was one of the most outspoken supporters of making the bureau more transparent and accountable to the American people.
He was a major backer of a document dump that contained the remaining unreleased information about the infamous pedophile human trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, now deceased.
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