Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., pressed Justice Department leadership about their handling of files related to the federal investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein, including reports that FBI personnel were instructed to "flag" any records that mentioned President Donald Trump .

In a series of oversight letters written to Attorney General Pam Bondi , FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Durbin questioned Bondi about "contradictions" in her public statements on the case, Patel about reports that he was "pressured" by Bondi to place 1,000 personnel on 24-hour shifts to mine roughly 100,000 Epstein-related records and Bongino about reported disputes among Trump officials about “the lack of transparency” in their handling of the high-profile case

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