Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has demanded the FBI give an accounting of the resources used to comb the Jeffrey Epstein files and explain its initial decision not to release documents connected to the deceased financier.

The letter, which comes ahead of Director Kash Patel’s testimony before the Senate next week, demands the files as well as the FBI’s rationale behind a July memo saying they would release no further information on the case after concluding Epstein died by suicide and did not keep a “client list.”

The memo said the FBI “conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein” and concluded that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”

“Obvious questions abound: why were so many agents tasked with reviewing documents that were never released? What specific instructions were they given during the review? What information did........

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