The libertarian Republican from rural Kentucky has long been a headache for party leaders, but he’s taken it to another level by co-authoring bipartisan legislation that compelled the Justice Department to release vast troves of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In an interview with POLITICO Magazine in his Capitol Hill office, Massie boasted that some 3 million files have already been released, even as he said he’d continue to bring pressure on the DOJ to reverse redactions in the documents.
Massie was the sole Republican to spar with Attorney General Pam Bondi at a combative congressional hearing last week, but he said for now, he won’t pursue efforts to hold her in contempt for not fully releasing the files.
he won’t pursue efforts to hold her in contempt for not fully releasing the files.
Yeah, thought so.
There is a zero chance of passing a contempt motion, bondi is the one that decides whether to prosecute, herself, for contempt, and the president could pardon her. Waste of time.
Wasting her time is time well spent.
Digging up more improper illegal redactions of connected co conspirators of Epstein and getting them unredacted I think would be time well spent.
Legislatively, starting a new bill to give the entire files to an independant group to do the redactions to protect victims only, as there are clearly no investigations into the perpetrators and redacting for that is a tool for the administration to protect themselves and their pals and those that pay them off.
They should write a bill to give it to a vetted group of monitors to decide the redactions, but for the identities of those redactors to remain secret outside of a secretive court thingy, maybe with oversight and challenge mechanism to decisions if challenges could be expedited. Because given the fallout from this, they will stop at nothing to influence the redactors, and threaten them and their families and livlihoods if it’s public.
That would be a good use of time, even as it wouldn’t pass yet, it would get a lot of support, and as revelations come to light from this scandal that will never die, more and more republicans will sign on, until it’s law. It’s never more important to reveal everyone involved in this excepting the actual victims.
I don’t think we would’ve gotten this document release without his efforts, so I will give him credit for that
Massie: “The Speaker, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, the President, and the Vice President could’ve spared our party months of humiliation if they’d done the right thing four months ago.”
The human trafficking, pedophilia, child rape and murder aren’t an issue, Massie’s just worried about the damage being done to the Grand Old Pedophiles.
Look at you reject defectors from the gop, great job, no wonder we are losing, why don’t you look past your hand for a change there machavelli.
It’s a waste of time at the moment. It would get no where.
I don’t feel that gratified that they’re fine with white supremacy but draw the line at pedophilia. Even if they weren’t just racist rats fleeing a sinking ship.
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