By HOLLIDAY WOODARD

Capital News Service

WASHINGTON – Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin pressed FBI Director Kash Patel during an animated House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday to make good on earlier promises to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the panel, charged that Patel’s tenure as director has endangered public safety.

“The important position at the FBI requires a real leader who puts public safety, national security, and the rule of law first,” the lawmaker said. “I’m afraid, Director Patel, you’ve given us reason to believe you have used the powers of the FBI to serve Donald Trump and his agenda of partisan retribution. You’ve broken your promise not to do that. You’ve betrayed Jeffrey Epstein’s victims and survivors.”

“You’ve turned your ba

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