{"id":13405,"date":"2025-09-17T23:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kash-patel-says-court-orders-bar-him-from-releasing-the-epstein-files-judges-have-said-otherwise-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:21:04","slug":"kash-patel-says-court-orders-bar-him-from-releasing-the-epstein-files-judges-have-said-otherwise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kash-patel-says-court-orders-bar-him-from-releasing-the-epstein-files-judges-have-said-otherwise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel says court orders bar him from releasing the Epstein files. Judges have said otherwise."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,&rdquo; Patel said during the second day of Congressional oversight hearings after Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/17\/congress\/kash-patel-epstein-files-hearing-00568547\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,&rdquo; Patel said during the second day of Congressional oversight hearings after Rep&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}