Overview

• The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hours-long oversight session featured sharp exchanges as Patel rejected claims of politicization and said, "I'm not going anywhere."
• Lawmakers pressed him on his inaccurate post that "the subject" was in custody after Charlie Kirk was killed; Patel said he should have written "a subject" and defended his communications.
• Patel maintained that releasing surveillance video and enhanced photos helped prompt suspect Tyler Robinson to turn himself in; Robinson has a court appearance scheduled Tuesday in Utah.
• Three fired senior FBI officials have sued, alleging a retaliatory purge for insufficient loyalty to President Trump; senators questioned whether the dismissals undermined the bureau.
• Senators scrutinized the July decision not to release additional Jeffrey Epstein materials; Patel said Epstein was not an FBI source.