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Massie: This Cover-Up Spans Decades, and You Are Responsible for This Portion of It

Feb 11, 2026 · 5:17 epsteindojfloor-speechtransparency

Floor remarks: the Epstein cover-up spans decades, and the people in the room now own this slice of it.

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  1. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Behind me, I have three documents from the DOJ production that are emblematic of the massive failure of the DOJ to comply
  2. with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. To my right is an email that was sent by the victim's lawyers to the DOJ. It was
  3. a list of names not to redact or sorry, a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They
  4. released this email in the document production. Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did.
  5. And they're getting phone calls. A lot of these people didn't want to be known. And we know you touched the document because you redacted one name and you
  6. redacted the lawyer's name, but you left the survivor's name there. The next document I want to show you in that was in the title, the victim's survivor's
  7. names. All right. The title of this one is child sex trafficking co-conspirators fully redacted.
  8. And by the way, I'm going to unredact them here. Les Wexner is in this now. your
  9. assistant deputy attorney general said, "Oh, well, he appears hundreds of times in the files, but he doesn't appear in this file until
  10. I forced you to release it." Where he's listed as a co-conspirator, not to tax evasion, but to child sex
  11. trafficking, not to prostitution, not to money, child sex trafficking. And then finally, what we have here is
  12. the third exhibit that I have is emblematic of the FD302 release. These are the documents that we need that
  13. you're holding on to and overredacting because they have the names of the men who are implicated. How do we know?
  14. Because the the survivors gave testimony to the FBI and it's in there. And what happens when you go to the portal at the
  15. DOJ to look at what's behind this redaction? Another redaction. So, we can't even see them. And then there's some of these files you've pulled down
  16. from the website that we will never see because we can't search the redactions. So, I have several questions for you.
  17. Who's responsible? Are you able to track who in your organization made this massive failure and released the victim's names? Are you able to track
  18. who it was that obscured Les Wexner's name as a co-conspirator in an FBI document? Do you have that kind of
  19. accountability? >> I believe Wexner's name was listed more than 4,000 times about I had >> Yeah, I already told you that. This is
  20. where he's listed as a >> finish my answer. Come on, let me finish my answer. We corrected that within 40 minutes. He was already You're acting
  21. like everybody's trying to cover up Wexner's name. Reclaiming Reclaiming my time. I'm gonna answer this question. Reclaiming my time. He was Mr. Chairman. This is how this works.
  22. >> Can I have my time? >> He was He was Mr. Chairman. >> The gentle lady can can give her answer. The time belongs to the gentleman from >> All right. I'm reclaiming my time. Can I give my answer?
  23. >> I'm going to put the language of the bill up on the screen. >> Chairman, I have another question on that. >> This is a political joke and I need to
  24. give my answer on that. Let we'll let the we'll let the attorney general respond and then the gentleman can move to his next question. It's my time. >> Within 40 minutes, you asked me a question. Within 40 minutes,
  25. >> Wexner's name was added back. >> Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed. >> Red hand. [laughter] There was one redaction out
  26. and we invited you in. We This guy has Trump arrangement syndrome. He needs to get You're a failed politician. You need
  27. to watch the chairman. Please restore his time and remind the witness of there is no credible information. >> None. If there were, I would bring the
  28. case yesterday >> that he traffked to other individuals. >> Is that your position as well?
  29. >> My position is any victim who comes forward, of course, we would love to hear from them. 1800 call FBI. Did you
  30. ask Merritt Garland that the last four years? Did you talk about Epstein? >> I am reclaiming my time. I'm glad you're asking about Mary Garland.
  31. >> This is bigger than Watergate when I don't answer a question. >> This goes over four administrations. You don't have to go back to Biden. Let's go back to Obama. Let's go back to George
  32. Bush. This cover up spans decades and you are responsible for this portion of it. And that's the I want to know at
  33. what point at what point >> did the FBI and the DOJ decide that Lex Wesner was not a co-conspirator? Because
  34. our Epstein Files Transparency Act requires you, please put it back on the screen. >> He's to release the internal decision
  35. about whether to prosecute him or not. And it's not in the files. And it's not in the files for any of these other men. Time of the gentleman

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