FBI Director Kash Patel has been accused of playing a central role in a Trump administration 'cover-up' of the Jeffrey Epstein files, including allegedly diverting more than 1,000 bureau personnel to identify documents mentioning the president.
Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, levelled the allegations during Patel's annual oversight hearing on Tuesday as the FBI chief faced intense questioning over his leadership of the bureau.