WASHINGTON — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino butted heads with Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this week over the Trump administration’s handling of its Jeffrey Epstein investigation — including a purported review of the late pedophile ‘s so-called “client list” that officials now say never existed.

FBI deputy director Dan Bongino has emerged as the 'fall guy' in the Epstein case as he was the one who okayed the release of the surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell. But the footage had a 'missing minute' which has become the albatross around the neck of the administration,

Since Kash Patel and Dan Bongino assumed leadership roles atop the FBI, the bureau has adopted a noticeably more forceful approach with polygraph tests, the New York Times reported Thursday. Agents and senior staff have been asked pointedly in polygraphs and interviews whether they have “cast aspersions on Mr.

Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" spoke about that website's scoop that the FBI and DOJ have concluded that there never was an "Epstein client list" and the infamous sex offender really did kill himself inside federal prison.

The Justice Department and the FBI said in a memo Monday no additional information on their Epstein probe would be released.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche took to social media Friday to defend the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein memo released earlier this week.