(The Center Square) – House Democrats drilled down on FBI Director Kash Patel’s handling of the Epstein files during an FBI oversight hearing Wednesday, after their counterparts in the Senate focused many of their questions on Patel’s “politicization” of the agency.

Several times on Wednesday, Democrats showed footage of comments Patel made about the case files of disgraced financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein before Patel became FBI director.

In 2023, Patel appeared on The Benny Show, a politics podcast hosted by conservative commentator Benny Johnson, where Johnson asked him why the FBI hadn’t released the alleged Epstein

“They're sitting on it….. That seems like an evil thing to do, regardless of who may be embarrassed in the release of that list. Why is the FBI pr

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