MARSHA BLACKBURN TEMIE$SH http.'www.blitclaxiln.se.taw.gov iallittd *tan *Mitt February 24, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION The Honorable Kash Patel Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C., 20520 Dear Director Patel: 367 DMUS*, Swan OIPCi RtAL rain Wasmonrood. DC 20510 12021224-3344 FAX12021 228-0506 Comm imui: COmma552t, SCienCe, AND TRANSPORTATION FINANCE JUOIOARV VETERANS' AFFAIRS Congratulations on your recent confirmation as the 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have no doubt that you will bring much-needed transparency to the FBI as you return the Bureau to its core mission of investigating crimes and keeping our nation safe. To that end, at your January 30, 2025, Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, you committed to working with me in illuminating the full extent and scope ofJeffrey Epstein's international sex trafficking ring. The American people deserve to know exactly who was affiliated with this network. As you know, over the course of many years, Jeffrey Epstein built a heinous global sex trafficking network that caused irreparable harm to countless women. Since Mr. Epstein's death in 2019, there is still much about this tragic case that is not known—including the names of his associates that are listed in the flight logs of his private jet and in Ghislaine Maxwell's "little black book." While some redacted portions of Epstein's flight logs and Maxwell's "little black book" have been released in various lawsuits,lit is paramount that the FBI provide full transparency to the American people and immediately release the complete, unredacted records in this case.2 Your predecessor, Director Wray, was unwilling to provide this crucially important transparency. In fact, despite informing me during his December 2023 appearance before the Judiciary Committee that he would "get with [his] team and figure out if there's more information we can provide" on the Epstein matter,; D