Kentucky lawmaker questions lack of U.S. prosecutions as he cites redacted documents and calls for further disclosures.
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., used a House floor speech Tuesday to press the Department of Justice for action related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, questioning why no arrests have followed the release of documents tied to the convicted sex offender.
During his remarks, Massie emphasized Congress’ oversight role over the Justice Department.
“Congress created the Department of Justice, Congress funds the Department of Justice and Congress is responsible for the oversight of the Department of Justice. When will we see justice? I’ll tell you what I’ve not seen. I’ve not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files,” he said.
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Massie referenced what he described as “over three million documents describing horrible things, describing unspeakable things, much of it redacted,” adding that more than two dozen people have resigned in connection with matters related to the files.
He pointed to developments overseas, stating that Prince Andrew “has since been stripped of his royalty, his royal titles due to his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein.” Massie also cited Peter Mandelson, whom he said “resigned in disgrace from United Kingdom’s House of Lords and the Labor Party” and “has been arrested,” and former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland, who he said “has been charged.” He contrasted those actions with what he described as a lack of charges in the United States.
“What do we see? We see our FBI director celebrating in the locker room at the Olympics overseas. It’s fine to be proud of this country, but we should be proud of this country because we have a system of justice that works, and yet we do not,” Massie said.
The congressman then identified several individuals by name, calling for further review.
“Who are the men that should be investigated?” he asked before stating: “I’ll name them right here. Leon Black. You don’t even have to see past the redactions to see that this man needs to be investigated. Jes Staley accused of terrible things. It’s right there in the files. Why is he not being investigated? And Leslie Wexner, why did the FBI list him as a co-conspirator in their own documents in a child’s sex trafficking case and then tell him, according to him, that they had no questions for him? Why is that?”
Massie argued that internal Justice Department and FBI communications from 2008 have not been released, referencing what he described as requirements under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
“We still don’t have the memos and documents and emails from 2008 to explain why Jeffrey Epstein was given such a light sentence in what would have been an open and shut case of child sex trafficking, which allowed him to go back and recommit these terrible crimes, create hundreds of more victims and ensnare so many other people in his conspiracy. Where are those documents that describe those decisions? We need justice. We want the Department of Justice to get to work and that’s what they need to do now,” he said.
Massie also contended that significant portions of the records remain redacted, stating that Attorney General Bondi’s Department of Justice “removed critical files from the database before we could view them.”
“We want to view unredacted because it appears these could have co-conspirators names in them, DOJ hasn’t released every document yet including FD-302s and internal communications about decisions not to investigate,” he said.
In a written statement referenced during the speech, Massie said, “In some of the emails I tried to view, the sender was a female and possibly a victim, so that could be why myself and other members of Congress haven’t disclosed them.”
Massie also addressed media figure Alex Jones and staff at Infowars, asking them to “post the EFTA# for documents” believed to “contain men’s names redacted.”
“I’ll go look at those documents at DOJ to see if those documents contain men’s names,” Massie said. “If the redacted identifier is an email address not associated with a name, I can put the email address back into the DOJ computer as a search term to see if it is associated with a man’s name elsewhere in the documents. This is how I discovered it was the Sultan who Epstein was discussing a torture video with.”
The Justice Department has not publicly responded to Massie’s remarks.
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