Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has come to the defense of FBI Director Kash Patel and his Deputy Director Dan Bongino by stating his belief that the infamous Epstein client list was likely destroyed by the “deep state” before either of them had an opportunity to get involved.
Sounds like something deep state operators would do. Especially if there were big names attached to the list in powerful positions that they simply couldn’t afford to lose. It’s sad and extremely tragic that there are very bad people getting away with hurting kids. Totally heartbreaking.
“I’m not blaming the FBI Director Kash Patel or the Deputy Director Dan Bongino,” Kiriakou said during an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters.
Check out the details from The Tampa Free Press:
A report released by Axios Sunday said that, based on a two-page memo, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI concluded that there had been no “client list” left by Epstein, despite ongoing public doubt. Discussing the new intelligence, Fox’s Jesse Watters asked Kiriakou if he believed the information from officials “adds up.”
“No, I don’t think this adds up,” Kiriakou replied. “You’ve hit it on the head, and so has Barry. I think you’re both exactly right on this. We really don’t know anything because the FBI doesn’t want us to know anything. I’m not blaming the FBI Director Kash Patel or the Deputy Director Dan Bongino.”
In 2019, Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, only to be found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell a month later. Officials said the deceased pedophile hanged himself in the cell. Speculations grew online due to the circumstances of his death.
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump vowed to release all Epstein’s files, with Patel also vowing to release as many files as he could. However, in May, Patel and Bongino told Fox News they remained firm that Epstein committed suicide, with Bongino flatly saying Epstein “killed himself.”
“I think that that layer beneath them, that’s part of what we like to call the deep state, has taken this bull by the horns, and they’ve probably destroyed information,” Kiriakou told the Fox News host. “Look at what the CIA did in 1975 after Congress ordered that it release all of its files related to an operation called MKUltra. The director of the CIA went back to headquarters and ordered everything to be destroyed, and, in the end, only about 20% of the documents survived.”
“We’re still learning about the FBI’s operations against Martin Luther King 50, 55 years after the fact, so now we’re supposed to believe that everybody’s telling the truth, that there were no files, there were no dossiers?” Kiriakou asked rhetorically. “I’m sorry. I just don’t buy it because I know how these people operate.”
What makes this fishy though is that back in February, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated back in February that she personally looked at the Epstein list. Kind of hard to do if it doesn’t exist, right? What’s up with that?
My theory is that the powerful individuals who were behind this sick and twisted pedophile ring have somehow managed to find a way to make these folks stay quiet. And that’s a horrifying thought. What do they know that would give them that sort of power?
Let’s hope that this isn’t the end and that we find out the truth about those involved with Epstein’s horrid business.
JUST IN: Former CIA officer John Kiriakou claims the deep state likely destroyed the Epstein documents long before Kash Patel and Dan Bongino got to the FBI.
“I’m not blaming the FBI director Kash Patel or the Deputy Director Dan Bongino.”
“I think that that layer beneath them,… pic.twitter.com/kkD2kOKGw1
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