Kash Patel

I have not seen him, but maybe we will later.

Let's work backwards because executing a search warrant and subpoenas are a position FBI wants to get to.

But in order to get there, we have to have probable cause and targets and accounts that we need to examine.

So what the FBI did was we went through three million lines of evidence in this case.

And Deputy Director Bongino

spearheaded an effort to create a team here nationally of subject matter experts that came into the fbi and reviewed those three million lines of evidence that included information such as cell phone data tower dumps triangulation information so the fbi has some of the best cell phone analysis systems in the world we call it a cast system and basically we said hey let's look at every single phone number again that was in the area that's what i mean when we said we didn't receive any new information

We just reviewed the information that was already in our holdings, in our databases.

And when we went through that, we found leads that we then went with our great prosecutors at the Department of Justice and Attorney General Bondi and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and said, hey, now we need some search warrants.

Now we need search warrants on these providers, social media accounts, email accounts, cell phone accounts.

And we need to ultimately execute search warrants of his residence and place of business because that's where this individual went most.

And so naturally, we had to develop enough probable cause to get there.

And that takes a little bit of time.

That piece of information will reveal in court because that's the appropriate place to reveal it in terms of any history or prior contacts with law enforcement.

As I said, the investigation is ongoing.

So it's not just whether or not he had contact with the FBI.

Did he have contact with the state authorities?

Did he have contact with the local authorities?

Did he have any contact in the juvenile system?

Those are all questions we're answering now because we have to send out those leads to our partners after the individual is identified and say, hey, what do you guys have on him?

because we're not done with the investigation.