Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has accused FBI Director Kash Patel of lying to Congress about the Jeffrey Epstein files.The Kentucky Republican made the allegation in a social media exchange with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, whom Massie prodded to unredact the names of potential co-conspirators ...
  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers,” Massie added. “This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing [Les] Wexner as coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.”

    Wait . . . So he was lying when he said that???

    Well don’t that beat all.

  • Asafum@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Fox news: “Who is this Patel anyway? He’s just a low level coffee boy FBI Director. As usual the Democrats (shut up I know its a Republican) lie about who has what information! Coffee boy FBI Directors wouldn’t have access to unredacted information! It was Joseph Stalin Hussien Biden who did it!”

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Bet on it: for the FBI under Trump it is more important to protect the guilty wealthy and influential criminals than protecting and providing justice to the victims.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    But he seems so trustworthy and doesn’t look at all like he needs to end a press conference immediately to scuttle off with the boss’s diaper bag (a.k.a “Football #2”).