Posted on 11/19/2025 8:55:20 AM PST by Red Badger

I'm not saying it, Thomas Massie is saying it.
BREAKING:
🇺🇲🇮🇱 "Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies." - Republican Rep. Thomas Massie. pic.twitter.com/II9fdhGZ1h— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) November 19, 2025

Yesterday, Speaker Johnson told us he was worried that if we declassified items in the files without consulting the intelligence agencies, it would be "incredibly dangerous" because, uh, critical sources must be protected.
Leftwing commentators were quick to come to their own wild conclusions:
BREAKING: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Speaker Mike Johnson claims the Epstein files CANT be released unredacted because they contain intelligence-agency material that falls under “national security.”
Translation: “The Israeli Mossad has videos of us r-aping children.”
pic.twitter.com/WYRFeHHNtw— ADAM (@AdameMedia) November 19, 2025
We also found out that Speaker Johnson, and possibly Trump, were not too happy about the bill:
NEW: Speaker Johnson tells me he’s “deeply disappointed” the Senate approved the Epstein files bill without making changes.
He said he spoke to Trump about it tonight: “We both have concerns,” Johnson said.
I asked if Trump may veto it: “I’m not saying that. I don’t know.” pic.twitter.com/qdErlrMKWY— Mychael Schnell (@mychaelschnell) November 19, 2025
Here's that full clip of Massie with a bit more context, which I'll quote below:
🚨Massie finally says the part the GOP’s been choking on:
“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 just done the right thing four months ago.”
They knew. They stalled.… pic.twitter.com/JPjOQ7NHDd— Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) November 18, 2025
I'm concerned that now [Trump] is opening a flurry of investigations and I believe they may be trying to use those investigations as a predicate for not releasing the files ... I'm afraid they're going to try to use a provision of the law that allows you not to release these materials if they're subject of an ongoing investigation ... the release of which would harm the ongoing investigation.
Things are getting spicy out in Washington!
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The Israeli leadership is likely worried that being tied to a scandal of this magnitude will be a public perception disaster that they cannot afford, especially after their recent genocidal activities.
I would agree, let the bodies hit the floor.
Anything less is Anti-America and a big FU a to the American people .
Allies ? Sez who ? With allies like this who needs enemies ?
Hah hah, page after page of big ole redactions.
At least the files will be released. Right?
Was all this hoopla worth it?
Antisemites just salivating to take down Israel regardless of the real potential damage to US national security.
Yes using a twisted money laundering globally connected financial guru to Billionaires, employing honey pots, whores and teenage girls, is a rotten way to blackmail powerful men. If the girls were under the age of consent ( some were, many seemingly were not and remained voluntarily with Epstein doing his bid to stay in the lifestyle. Now claiming to be victims and sharing in large payoffs for NDAs) …then enters “ pedophilia”. Someone on another site pointed out that in half the US ages 16/17 is actually the age of consent, not pedophilia.
Senator Dick Blumenthal met his wife when she was 16 ( he was 31)…does that make him a pedo? There have been others…
However while individual intel org agents could and should be punished for criminal sexual activity, the strategic relationship between our intel communities must be maintained for the greater good
I already know.
Massie is right in my opinion, but it’s more than just the USA and Israel. Epstein worked with probably scores of governments with his deals and this is probably the reason Trump stalled on his campaign promises because he got enormous heat or pressure. It’s not like the Democrats Hope because he’s implicated
Not much greater good has ever come out of those intel agencies.
Greater good? My arse. 🙄
For example, Epstein did a deal involving the Iraqi pipeline where Israel agreed to stop Iran from bombing it and it was facilitated through Israel the United States western European countries and I think Saudi Arabia and Bechtel built it and if I’m not mistaken, 30% of the deal went to make everybody happy and I can assure you, Epstein got a nice chunk
This is the kind of stuff. I’m guessing they don’t want everybody to know about.
You can Google it Mike Ben talked about it last week and he had the emails
There is a lot of stuff like this out there, but the media doesn’t report it. They would rather report that Trump is implicated or talk about the girls, but in reality, the girls were basically tools that Epstein exploded for himself personally and when they got too old, he passed them on to his friends. A lot of people don’t realize most of these girls were over 18 but some of them were young and some may have been very young and that might come out. I just don’t know.
If everything goes back to Adnan Khashoggi, I don’t know how many people here remember him, but that was a while back, but I think he got his start there plus the chairman of Bear Stearns took him under his wing. I don’t think the stuff with Epstein on the intelligence statecraft happened by accident
It’s also to me really strange that Bill Barr, daddy who was CIA and lighter the headmaster at the Dalton school if I’m not mistaken helped Epstein get the job
I mean, you have to believe all this is so coincidental but it kind of defies logic about coincidences and it’s like Steve Bannon says there are no coincidences
Massie, like MTG and Rand Paul make their money on clicks, and they get clicks by outrage and playing subgroups.
They’re not serious players.
Perhaps the "files" - if they are real - can shed some light on this.
Megan Kelley also says that she has information that Epstein had a large collection of actual kitty porn, which fits the true definition of pedophilia in my opinion no doubt, but I don’t know if that will come out of this or not I mean, who know
I see the Senate quickly approve this too unanimously, which is good and they have 30 days for the department of justice to release what they have
My fear is, it will be heavily redacted, of course
Point out where Trump campaigned on this. He said one sentence when asked a question and his response was:
When asked a series of declassification questions (starting with JFK/MLK files, then 9/11), co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy followed up: “Would you declassify the Epstein files?” Trump replied: “Yeah, yeah, I would... I guess I would. I think that, less so, because you don’t want to affect people’s lives if it’s phony stuff in there... But yeah, I’d go a long way toward that one [especially on his death].”
People act like it was a stump speech. He would have lost the election if it was because nobody gives a crap.
The only reason not to release blackmail files is to maintain the blackmail.
recent genocidal activities-—go pound!
Epstein was a CIA operative..its really that simple..he was an informant doing their bidding and he had close ties to a lot of foreign intelligence, NOT just Israel, I like it how everything with Massie is Israel Israel Israel, how about other foreign countries, but yeah its all about Israel
I had watched every single one of Trumps campaign rallies and he NEVER once during those rallies ever promised or ran on releasing ANY Epstein files. In fact he never mentioned Epstein because its a huge conflict of interest for him since he knew him, but the media still runs with “Trump promised to release the files” NO HE DIDNT, he would never have campaigned on it and he never did
IMHO it was a “joint-venture” operation.
Crossfire Hurricane and Arctic Frost were similar.
Mossad and/or MI6 and offshore communications provides protection from US Congressional disclosure, record-keeping requirements, plausible deniability, etc... FBI/CIA naturally control and monitor what occurs within the USA.
Well, he would say that, now wouldn't he?
If you find Alan Dershowitz to be a reliable provider of Epstein-related information, I just don't know what to say.
Like you ( or I) even know
Your arse
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