New Epstein files show Kash Patel’s FBI lied about transparency and tried to protect U.S. presidents and celebrities named in the documents

Remember when Kash Patel was making the rounds on every podcast promising total transparency to the American people? When he assured America that he’d put on his “big boy pants” and reveal who the pedophiles were? Well, turns out those pants had some pretty deep pockets for hiding inconvenient truths.

As part of the Epstein Transparency Act, the Department of Justice has just dumped another 3 million files on its official website. And among all the redacted documents, all the censored incriminating evidence, people have found FBI emails from March 2025—just weeks after Patel took over—that paint a pretty damning picture of the agency.

It looks like Patel and his people were scrambling to protect powerful people rather than expose them. In one email, FBI personnel were literally asking for guidance on how to redact images featuring “victims, unknown-unidentified females and males, former U.S. presidents, Secretary of State, and other celebrities.”

So, despite what the DOJ claims, the government isn’t just trying to protect victims, but wants to shield powerful people from persecution.

Remember, this is the same Patel who repeatedly dodged questions about whether Trump was in the Epstein files. At the Senate hearings on September 16 and September 17, 2025, he faced multiple Trump-related questions but refused to answer them in a straight manner.

The only time he provided the senators with a definitive answer was when they asked if there were photos of Trump with underage girls, to which he said “no”—not because the FBI had conducted any thorough review, mind you, but because he figured “multiple administrations” over the past 20 years would’ve leaked them by now.

The more we learn about Jeffrey Epstein and what he was up to, the harder it becomes to reconcile ourselves with the reality that the rich and the powerful are still sidestepping justice—and only because the system allows them to get away with it. From disturbing details emerging from the files to the ever-increasing probability that Epstein didn’t kill himself, the entire saga is no longer a conspiracy theory that your weird uncle brings up at the dinner table or that eccentric YouTuber makes videos about, but the nightmare reality we’re living in 2026.

Following mounting pressure from both sides of the political spectrum, the Department of Justice has vowed to release the unredacted version of the files to Congress, though after all this foot-dragging—I mean, careful legal review—you’ll forgive us for not exactly holding our breath.

You already know nothing will change when the agency that spent months asking “which powerful figures do we protect?” suddenly promises full transparency.