Mark Fisher

FBI Director Patel has a very different set of facts that he would like people to believe, and that is that there is no client list, never was.

And Patel, who had certainly entertained the idea that there was some conspiracy behind Epstein's death before Patel came to the FBI,

Now that he is the director, now that he's had the opportunity to read the files, he has concluded that this was absolutely a suicide, that there's no evidence to the contrary.

There was no hanky-panky.

Donald Trump's presence in the Epstein files is minimal and benign.

And so this almost complete reversal on Patel's part is—

is bizarrely accompanied now by Kash Patel saying, how can you not believe me?

He gets indignant when people question him about this, including members of Congress.

And so Patel says, I am the guy who was pushing for all this stuff to be released when I was out of office.

Now that I'm in office and I tell you there's nothing to be released, you need to believe me.

And he seems, at least he acts, as if he's astonished that people don't take his word for it.

Well, none of the previous FBI directors had executive protection for their spouses, not for their wives and not for any girlfriends.

And so it's very unusual for a director to request that kind of protection for someone personally.

who's not the director and who's not even the director's spouse.

So why is this in the news?

Because there are a lot of people within the FBI who find these kinds of requests, these kinds of irregularities, not just unseemly, but a waste of resources.

So whether it's providing protection for his girlfriend or providing the director with jet service on the Bureau's

to take him to various forms of entertainment, hockey games, casino jaunts to Las Vegas, visits to that girlfriend in Nashville.

All of this comes at great expense to the taxpayer and is seen by a lot of people in the Bureau as a waste of resources.

Yes, he pays the government back, or so he says, at the commercial rate, the rate that you and I would pay to fly to Nashville, which is dramatically less than it costs the Bureau to stand up their G5 jet and whisk the director wherever he wants to go for that weekend's entertainment.