THOMAS MASSIE EXPOSES DOJ TRANSCRIPT EDIT: 12 WORDS VANISH FROM EPSTEIN HEARING RECORD
In a moment that stunned a congressional hearing room, Thomas Massie revealed that a witness transcript connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation had been quietly altered on the United States Department of Justice website, removing exactly twelve words days after the original document had already been made public.
The change might have seemed small at first glance, but Massie argued the deleted words carried enormous significance because they referenced a specific location and two unidentified individuals present during a meeting linked to Epstein.
During the oversight session of the United States House Judiciary Committee, Massie held up two printed pages side-by-side—one the original transcript published three days after the hearing, the other a revised version uploaded nine days later with the key portion removed.
Reading both aloud, the Kentucky congressman showed how the first transcript described a meeting at Epstein’s Palm Beach property on El Brio Way with two associates present, while the revised version replaced that detailed recollection with a vague statement claiming the witness could not specify the details.
When questioned, Attorney General Pam Bondi responded that transcript revisions can occur during routine accuracy reviews handled by legal offices within the department.
Massie countered by presenting what he described as the department’s own transcript review log, stating the witness had submitted zero correction requests, raising the question of who inside the DOJ authorized the removal of those twelve words.
The exchange grew tense as Massie argued that eliminating the location and the two unidentified individuals effectively changed the meaning of the testimony, suggesting the department had edited the record rather than corrected it.
By the time the questioning moved on, the room was left with two competing versions of the same federal transcript and a controversy over whether a routine edit had quietly erased crucial details from the public record.
