FBI, Candace Owens clash after she FOIA requested Kash Patel’s travel schedule

The FBI and Candace Owens are clashing on X after the agency told her to “reduce the scope" of her request for director Kash Patel’s travel itinerary in the days leading up to Charlie Kirk’s death.

Owens filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding Patel’s whereabouts for the three days before the former Turning Point USA CEO’s assassination – Sept. 7-10, 2025 – as a part of her ongoing personal investigation into Kirk’s death.

On Monday, the FBI posted a screenshot of its June 12 response to Owens in a reply to her X post, which questioned the legality of the agency telling her to decrease the range of her FOIA.

Owens' request is part of her conspiracy that the FBI – along with the French Foreign Legion, Israeli government and Turning Point USA staff – could be involved in Kirk's death.

The response said that “unusual circumstances” apply to the request’s processing, clarifying that the FBI would have to search for and collect records from offices separate from its Record/Information Dissemination Section, search for, collect and examine a large number of separate records and/or it would have to consult with another agency or two or more Justice Department components.

The response then said the “unusual circumstances” apply only to the request’s processing and mean the request’s determination is delayed – it doesn’t decide how the FBI will respond to Owens’ request.

The agency said that Owens reducing her request will accelerate the response process or reduce search and duplication costs, ultimately allowing her to receive the information she’s requesting quicker.

Owens said in her X post that the FBI told her the “burden of the request is too great,” which she claims was her paraphrasing the FBI’s recommendation. 

However, the FBI Rapid Response X account took her “paraphrasing” as lying, and wrote, “Your ‘show’ just like the fake news media will be called out when you LIE.”

She then addressed “the intern running this X account” (a sarcastic jab), further clarifying her word choice. Owens said that the FBI defining her team's request for "a mere 3 day itinerary" as "substantive" prompted her to paraphrase that the request was too burdensome for the agency. She also noted that her team published the FBI's full response on her show for public users to read themselves.

Owens then criticized the FBI for responding “‘rapidly’ to smear people that won’t let go of Charlie Kirk’s death,” and asked the agency to use a “similar speed” to provide the defense team representing Tyler Robinson — who has been charged with aggravated murder in connection to Kirk’s death — documents they’ve been requesting and “which have mysteriously been in [the FBI’s] possession since September.”

Katherine Pugh is a reporter for Just the News. Follow her on X for more coverage.