FBI feud – Candace Owens accused the FBI of blocking her FOIA push for Kash Patel’s travel itinerary tied to Charlie Kirk’s September 2025 death. The FBI fired back on X, and Owens escalated with further attacks on the agency and the Department of Justice.
Candace Owens didn’t just post another conspiracy thread on X this week—she went straight after the FBI with a FOIA claim tied to the death of Charlie Kirk.
On Monday, Owens alleged that the agency told her the “burden of request [was] too great” after she requested FBI Director Kash Patel’s travel itinerary from the days before Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University in September 2025.
“Via FOIA, we formally requested Kash Patel’s travel itinerary for the 3 days leading up to Charlie Kirk’s assassination and we just heard back and were told the burden of the request is too great,” Owens wrote on X. “How is this even remotely legal?”
The FBI responded quickly. It posted on its Rapid Response X account and shared the written reply it said it sent to Owens, asking her to point to the exact line.
“Dear @RealCandaceO Please show us on the document sent to you ACKNOWLEDGING your FOIA request where we said: ‘The burden of the request is too great.’” the FBI wrote. It then added: “Your ‘show’ just like the fake news media will be called out when you LIE! We hope this helps.”
Owens didn’t back down. She returned to X and argued the dispute was about what she believed the FBI told her—and what she claims the agency is trying to hide. The conflict moved to YouTube as well, where Owens posted the denial she received “in full,” according to her public statements.
After Owens’ YouTube posting, the FBI offered another rebuttal. “When you tell your audience you were ‘denied’ that would be a lie for clickbait.”
That set the stage for a series of sharper exchanges. Owens issued scathing responses to the FBI’s posts, including a jab that framed the agency’s account as being handled by an “intern.”
“To the intern running this X account— you’ll note that we did not put your response in quotation marks. That’s called, ‘paraphrasing,’” Owens wrote in a follow-up post. “When you wrote back to us suggesting that we ‘reduce the scope of [our] request’ while referring to our request for a mere 3 day itinerary as ‘substantive’ we appropriately paraphrased on for fellow X users that our request was too burdensome.”.
She added: “We then published your full response as well as our full request onto our show for public to read themselves. Glad to see you are actually capable of respond ‘rapidly’ to smear people that won’t let go of Charlie Kirk’s death. Do you mind utilizing a similar speed to get Tyler Robinson’s defense team the documents they’ve been requesting and which have mysteriously been in your possession since September?. Thanks in advance, Chief.”.
Owens’ criticism spread beyond the FBI. She followed up by calling out the Department of Justice, posting: “Clown world. LMAO.” She also accused the FBI of wasting tax dollars, writing that it was behaving “like a boomer who doesn’t understand that X is meant to be pithy?”
She then pressed the agency further, questioning the motive and the operation behind the account: “Is ‘clickbait’ a legitimate Department of Justice concern? Who is running this account? Who is running this account? Can we FOIA that?”
Owens also reposted commentary from Buckley Carlson on her timeline. Carlson defended her—through a message Owens shared that disputed Laura Loomer’s claims that Owens told “excessive lies.” In the post. Carlson wrote: “Larry: you and the FBI are too dumb/dishonest to recognize the euphemism for the ‘burden is too great. ’ clearly spelled out in their ‘unusual circumstances’ dodge?”.
He continued: “Alarming. But not as alarming as their shutdown of Charlie & Trump’s Butler investigation. Hmm. What IS the common denominator here?. And. how and why do they have the time to tweak Candace. when they sat on voluminous Epstein evidence for 20 years?. Those are the questions YOU would be asking. If you were smart. Or, honest.”.
For its part, the FBI did not immediately provide additional comment beyond its Rapid Response X posts, and a representative did not respond right away to a request for comment.
The fight, at its core, is now playing out on two levels: Owens insists the agency is stonewalling her FOIA effort tied to the days before Charlie Kirk was killed, while the FBI says Owens is misrepresenting what was actually written in the response.
Candace Owens FBI FOIA Kash Patel Charlie Kirk Utah Valley University X Rapid Response Department of Justice Tyler Robinson Tucker Carlson