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EFTA00163786 . Continued Reporting: White House Welcomes Pros to Examine Trump Card to Jeffrey Epstein to Prove It's a Fake EFTA00163787 EFTA00163788 Director Patel to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Politico (09/09, Fuchs) and Just the News (09/09, Severi) reported that Director Patel is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 9 a.m. in the Hart Senate Office Building as part of the panel's oversight of the bureau. According to the article, Director Patel will also appear before the House Judiciary Committee the following day, Sept. 17, as the Trump administration faces bipartisan scrutiny over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. The article noted that the Senate committee's notice did not specify the exact reason for the hearing, but that House Republicans recently released files related to Epstein, including a birthday book the White House has denied contained a message from President Trump. EFTA00163789 EFTA00163790 EFTA00163791 EFTA00163792 EFTA00163793 EFTA00163794 EFTA00163795 OTHER FBI NEWS Continued Reporting: White House Welcomes Pros to Examine Trump Card to Jeffrey Epstein to Prove It's a Fake USA TODAY (09/09, Garrison, Meyer) reported that the White House said it would support a professional handwriting expert examining the signature on a note and a lewd drawing in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book to prove it was not written by President Donald Trump. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters there have already been multiple forensic analyses indicating the signature was "absolutely not the president's authentic signature." According to the article, Meredith DeKalb Miller, a former Supervisory Forensic Document Examiner with the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, explained that professional examiners use side-by-side comparisons of features such as spacing, size, slant, letter formation, and alignment to determine authenticity and have provided expert testimony in court for decades. The article noted that Trump has sued the Wall Street Journal for defamation over its reporting on the letter, while some analyses have pointed out similarities between the signature in the Epstein book and Trump's letters from the 1980s and 1990s. It added that DeKalb Miller declined to speculate on the authenticity of the signature, emphasizing that professional examiners rely on a standardized probability scale to reach their conclusions. The Hill (09/09, Samuels) added that the White House has denied that President Trump was an FBI informant in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The denial comes after Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Trump may have been an informant, but Johnson has since clarified that he may have misspoken. Additional reporting on the story was provided by BBC (09/09, Lau, Smith), CNN (09/09, Blake) (2), The Daily Beast (09/09, Vaillancourt), The Guardian (09/09, Lowell, Stein, Gedeon), The Independent (09/09, Hawkinson), Raw Story (09/09, Burris), Rolling Stone (09/09, Klee), and Time (09/09, Schneid). EFTA00163796 EFTA00163797 EFTA00163798 EFTA00163799 EFTA00163800 EFTA00163801