The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, an acolyte of President Donald Trump, apparently did not recognize the name of one of the most notorious mass murderers in recent history during a congressional hearing last week.

Patel faced a grilling by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday and the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday after several public blunders in the investigation into the death of conservative streamer and influencer Charlie Kirk last week and his handling of the Epstein files earlier this summer.

California Democratic Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove asked Patel if he disagreed that white supremacist Dylann Roof had carried out the horrific mass shooting in Charlestown, South Carolina, at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015.

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