On the evening of February 9, 2026, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna walked out of a secure reading room at a Department of Justice satellite office and stood in front of cameras looking visibly rattled. They had spent the afternoon reading material that the rest of the country still cannot see. What Massie told reporters next is the single most important fact in the entire Jeffrey Epstein saga, and almost no one has reckoned with what it actually means.
There were six men, Massie said, whose names and in some cases photographs had been redacted from the files. At least one was a United States citizen. At least one was, in Massie’s words, pretty high up in a foreign government. Another Republican who reviewed the files that week, Rep. Lauren Boebert, joined Massie, Khanna, former-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Rep. Nancy Mace in demanding the redactions be lifted.
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