By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
February 5, 2026
The latest Epstein file dump is causing quite a stir, both for what it has revealed and what it hasn't.
According to one of the central figures who pushed for transparency, the Justice Department is still holding on to the most critical pieces. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said in an X post on Saturday, one day after the release, that the powers that be still won't tell us who Epstein's clients were. "But they're still withholding names of the men that Epstein trafficked women to, so unfortunately we're not done," Massie said, adding, "Missing: draft indictments and FD 302 files summarizing victim and witness statements."
But they're still withholding names of the men that Epstein trafficked women to, so unfortunately we're not done. Missing: draft indictments and FD 302 files summarizing victim and witness statements.- Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 31, 2026
The Documents
On Friday, the DOJ published more than three million pages of documents related to convicted pedophile and suspected international sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike prior releases, this one included a lot of previously unknown pieces. It provided a lot of fodder for mainstream media as well as independent reporters and podcasters.
Among the new documents most widely circulated and discussed by independent media are the ones that bolster the suspicion that Epstein was tied to intelligence. An October 2020 report of intel from an FBI informant alleges that Epstein trained under former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barack as a spy. Epstein's former attorney, Alan Dershowitz, is a central figure in this report as well. The informant divulged details about "phone calls between Dershowitz and Epstein during which he/she took notes," according to one of the documents. "After these calls, Mossad would then call Dershowitz to debrief. Epstein was close to the former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak (Barak) and trained as a spy under him."
In this same report, the informant tells the FBI that "Dershowitz was co-opted by Mossad and subscribed to their mission." Moreover, it is the former Harvard law professor who supposedly told then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alex Acosta in 2008 that Epstein "belonged to both U.S. and allied intelligence services" and to let his sweetheart deal go through.
President Donald Trump's name came up in more than 5,000 of the new files. Being mentioned in the files is not proof of any guilt. Epstein appeared to have mingled with everyone in the world who is someone. Trump has always denied any wrongdoing. But he was close to Epstein for many years, and the president has been accused by alleged victims of partaking in horrific acts of rape together with Epstein.
Intel Asset
The idea that Epstein was tied to intel is something that some of the most thorough independent reporters have floated for years, including Whitney Webb, who wrote the two-volume book One Nation Under Blackmail.
The same informant who said Epstein was U.S. and Israeli intel told the FBI that Trump "has been compromised by Israel." The informant also suggested Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was the real brains behind the first Trump presidency. From the document:
[Informant] advised Chabad is doing everything they can to co-opt the Trump presidency. Chabad is basically state-sanctioned Judaism. It is used by Putin to keep tabs on all the Russo-Jewish oligarchs. On the day Trump was elected President. Ivanka Trump (Ivanka) and Jared [Kushner] were at the gravesite of Rabbi Schneerson, who was the most powerful Rabbi in the Chabad network. Jared didn't disclose his stake in Cadre, because of its ties to the Russian state (NFI). CHS believed this was/is the "real" Russian collusion story. Kushner has moved a lot of Russian investment money around. The FBI should investigate Kushner's family charities to find evidence of corruption and money laundering. Chabad routinely uses charities to launder money.
Rothschild Agent
Another document getting a lot of attention is one in which Epstein says he works for the Rothschild multi-generational banking dynasty. He told tech tycoon Peter Thiel in a February 2016 email, "As you probably know I represent the Rothschilds." The Rothschild family has been suspected of financing a myriad of globalist pet projects and radical revolutionary movements for a very long time.
On a related note, Epstein appeared very cognizant of his Jewishness. He consistently makes the distinction between Jews and the "goyim," a term that refers to non-Jews. One of the files includes an email sent by socialite Peggy Siegal, who asked Epstein, "Is it going to be 100% Jew night?" Epstein replies, "No, goyim in abundance - jpmorgan execs brilliant wasps," referring to White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
In some Jewish circles, "goyim" is used as a derogatory term, one that implies that the non-Jew is inferior. In 2009, Epstein sent artificial intelligence academic Roger Shank an email in which he comments cynically on profiting from short-selling shipping futures contracts and letting non-Jews deal with tangible risks. He writes, "This is the way the jew make money.. and made a fortune in the past ten years" selling short the shippping futures"let the goyim deal in the real world."
Torture Talk
But while this latest release, unlike previous ones, has given people plenty to talk about, it's what's still being withheld that's causing outrage.
In April 2009, Epstein send an email saying, "where are you ? are you ok I loved the torture video." The name of the recipient is redacted, prompting the question: Why did the DOJ withhold the name of someone who might have committed a crime by sending Epstein a video of someone being tortured?
A couple years later, Epstein sent an email to someone saying, "do ou want me to t to do her.. or just torture her." Again, the government blacked out the name of the recipient. Why is the government concealing the identity of someone who appears to have been involved or known about the potential torture of someone?
Missing Documents
But that's not all that's missing. According to Massie and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), "they've released, at best, half the documents" that were supposed to be published under the Epstein Transparency Act. Massie and Khanna drafted a letter and sent it to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche the day of the latest release asking for the rest of the files.
Missing from the release, they said, are hundreds of thousands of various documents recovered from Epstein's email accounts during the 2018 and 2019 investigations into he and Ghislaine Maxwell. Also missing are victim interview statements from the initial Florida investigation and the New York FBI investigation. "We understand that the Department possesses FBI Form 302 reports documenting these interviews," the lawmakers say in their letter. "However, the materials released to date in this category consist largely of pages that are fully redacted, providing no meaningful information for oversight or public accountability."
Thirdly, "the 53-page draft indictment and the 82-page prosecution memorandum prepared during the 2007 Florida investigation" is also missing. The lawmakers said