Critical Massie: Congressman Grills FBI Director, Reveals Kash is Bankrupt on Epstein Accounting
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has been at the forefront of the effort to get justice for Epstein’s victims. FBI Director Kash Patel continues to stonewall. Nick Bryant, the investigative journalist who spent two decades digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network, is calling out the latest fraud being played on the American people. The House Discharge petition to release the Epstein files has ignited bipartisan interest—but FBI Director Kash Patel is doing everything he can to smother it.
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Would Virginia Roberts Guffrie or even Charlie Kirk be alive today if the FBI Director, Deputy FBI Director, or Attorney General come clean about the Epstein files?
Massie didn’t go there but it’s clear that Patel wasn’t prepared for anything other than stonewalling.
This isn’t about protecting victims. It’s about protecting predators. And Kash Patel has once again shown the country whose side he’s really on. Massie is on the other side.
Investigative reporter Nick Bryant is the man who first published Epstein’s black book and flight logs back in 2015. He lives this case every day and has a Ph.D. in all things Epstein.
This week, Patel resembled a man at a 180-degree variance from who he was before becoming FBI Director, under questioning from Massie. Once a self-styled truth-teller, Patel has now become the gatekeeper of lies and protected, dark secrets. Testifying before both the House and Senate, he claimed there was “no evidence” that Epstein trafficked girls to anyone. A statement so preposterous that it insults both the intelligence of Congress and the mountain of evidence already in the public domain.
The very next day, Patel’s credibility cratered further under questioning from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Instead of transparency, Patel stonewalled—dodging, deflecting, and denying, just as his predecessors at the Bureau have done. The FBI’s long pattern of complicity with power was on full display.
And if that weren’t enough, Patel tried to rewrite history by throwing former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta under the bus. Patel called Acosta’s 2008 non-prosecution agreement with Epstein “the original sin,” as though the buck stopped with one man. The truth, as Nick Bryant has reported for years, is that Acosta did the bidding of someone far higher up the chain—either Attorney General Alberto Gonzales or George W. Bush himself. That sweetheart deal didn’t materialize out of thin air. It was engineered to protect powerful men whose names remain buried in the still-sealed files.
Bryant makes clear that every president since has chosen to keep those files locked away, perpetuating the cover-up. The secrecy is bipartisan. The victims have been erased. And now the FBI Director himself is brazenly gaslighting the nation by pretending the Epstein scandal was nothing more than one man’s crimes.
Nick Bryant is uniquely positioned to rip away this facade. He has the receipts, the sources, and the historical context. If Congress and the press don’t force the release of the files, the Epstein operation will remain the Rosetta Stone of modern corruption: the bipartisan glue that binds the elite together in silence.
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Relevant Article(s):
Republican Grills Kash Patel On Epstein’s Alleged Accomplices, Lists 20 People
Here is the exchange from a day earlier that Massie referred to:
Patel: Acosta’s handling of Epstein case was “original sin”
Republicans push for release of Epstein files, despite Trump
2 GOP senators break with leaders on vote to release all Epstein-related files
The Alpha & Omega of Jeffrey Epstein
The Epstein Scandal Explained – Epstein Justice
Optional Q&A:
- What does Kash Patel’s claim that there is “no evidence” in the Epstein files reveal about the FBI’s true intentions?
- How does Patel’s testimony represent a 180-degree shift from the persona he had before becoming FBI Director?
- Why was Patel’s exchange with Rep. Thomas Massie so telling about his willingness to stonewall an honest investigation?
- What is the significance of Patel blaming Alex Acosta for the “original sin” of 2008?
- Who was really behind the sweetheart deal Epstein received—was it Acosta, or higher powers like Alberto Gonzales or George W. Bush?
- Why have multiple presidents, Republican and Democrat alike, chosen to keep the Epstein files sealed?
- What does the refusal to release these files say about the bipartisan nature of elite protection in America?
- How would the release of the Epstein files change the public’s understanding of power, corruption, and trafficking at the highest levels?
ABOUT NICK BRYANT…
Nick Bryant is an investigative journalist and Director of Epstein Justice. He spent seven years investigating a child sex trafficking network that was covered up by state and federal authorities, culminating in The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse, and Betrayal. The trafficking network I wrote about in The Franklin Scandal has been the focal point of considerable misinformation and/or disinformation on the Internet. Individuals who, perhaps, suffer from psychiatric disorders have woven the Illuminati and shape shifting reptilian ETs into the narrative.
But the book’s foremost transgressor has been Wikipedia. The “Franklin child prostitution ring allegations” Wikipedia page has been under siege by unscrupulous Wikipedia “editors,” and they’ve intentionally made it nonsensical.
The Franklin Scandal and the Epstein scandal are quite similar in the sense that both child trafficking networks were covered up by state and federal authorities and the mainstream media has been complicit, because it never demanded justice for the children whose lives had been disfigured. I started investigating the Epstein network in 2012, when I acquired his “Little Black Book”—seven years before the case broke nationally.
I pitched an article on the Little Black Book for three years to mainstream media outlets, but, like The Franklin Scandal, my pitches were met with unbridled skepticism and incredulity. In 2015, finally, Gawker published the Little Black Book and accompanying articles. I found it ironic that Gawker, considered to be the mean kids in the media, had the fortitude to publish a story about children whose lives have been disfigured with impunity, whereas media outlets ostensibly immersed in integrity had rejected the story.
His latest book, The Truth About Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies and Liars, details the false narrative that our history books have imparted about the infamous Watergate affair.
ABOUT PETER SHINN…
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Pete Shinn has an extensive background in the U.S. Air Force as a trainer, journalist, and adult educator. He is the Associate Director of Epstein Justice. He also served as an executive officer for the Continental NORAD Region Air Operations Center, and as a liaison between the Secretary of the Air Force and U.S. Senate Appropriators.
Beginning in 1989, Shinn began providing interactive diversity and inclusion training to Air Force audiences. In 2008, Shinn was selected to provide leadership, communications, problem solving, and critical thinking skills training at the U.S. Air Force Officer Training School. In 2010, he deployed with the Iowa National Guard to provide agricultural training to farmers in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province.
After returning from Afghanistan, he provided interactive training on the intersection between agriculture and national defense to a variety of organizations, including the National Agri-Marketing Association, American Farm Bureau Federation, National Pork Board, and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, among others. Pete retired from the Air Force in October 2020 after 36 years of service. He is currently a co-creator at Shinnfluence LLC, a family media and training business.
Pete’s major military awards include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters, and the U.S. Army Combat Action Badge. His major civilian awards include the 1998 Nebraska Broadcaster’s Association Gold Service to Agriculture Award, the National Association of Farm Broadcasting President’s Award in 2004 and 2005, and an Emmy Award in 2012 for Best Military Program.
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