Ray Epps and the January 6 committee

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack (yes, their official name) is showing signs of disquiet. They have mentioned Ray Epps, to deny the extent of his involvement. Some will no doubt say that pundits, colleagues, and at least one U.S. Senator have forced the issue. No, they haven’t. To mention Ray Epps now, and offer bland denials in almost vulgar language, is an unforced error. When you exist to write bills of attainder and an ex post facto law against your political opposition, you dare not show weakness. Yet that is exactly what the January 6 Committee has now shown.

Once again: who is Ray Epps?

CNAV has already covered Ray Epps extensively – to ask what he was doing in Washington on January 5 and 6, and about two other suspicious actors. (We know those actors only as “Scaffold Commander” and “Fence Cutter Bulwark.”) Of all the extensive audio-visual assets that CNAV has linked to or embedded, these stand out:

Video of Ray Epps exhorting people to go

Into the Capitol! Into the Capitol!

And the people around him starting a repeating chant of “Fed!”

Here, after someone tracks down Ray Epps to his ranch in Arizona, he runs away from someone asking him what he was doing there.

Look at these two screen captures of the FBI’s “Wanted” page of Capitol Hill “riot” photographs. Now you see Ray Epps,

and now you don’t.

And just Whiskey Tango Foxtrot not!?

The FBI and DOJ won’t say

Tellingly, the Justice Department will not say. Nor will the FBI, even after Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked them specifically about him on national television.

The Federalist has a transcript. Herewith some excerpts:

Q. How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of Jan. 6?

A [from Jill Sanborn of the National Security Branch of the FBI]. I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods.

Q. Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of Jan. 6, yes or no?

A. I can’t answer that.

Q. Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on Jan. 6?

A. I can’t answer that.

Q. Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on Jan. 6?

A. I can’t answer that.

Why didn’t she just say, “No”? Of course, Ray Epps now has a lawyer who says, “No.” But that lawyer has filed no libel or defamation suits or requests for retraction. Not even from Revolver News, who published the most in-depth investigations of Epps now available. Incidentally, this lawyer once worked for the FBI himself, from 1975 to 1984. The FBI has many lawyers as agents.

(Note: Ted Cruz had to redeem himself after earlier calling the January 6 event “a terrorist attack.” Did he really say that to lay a trap for Sanborn, as Headline USA seems to think?)

Now they tell us – but can we believe them?

The January 6 Committee, after being so painfully shy about Ray Epps, now is mentioning him only to disavow him.

Why does this read like the dire disclaimer that characters Dan Briggs and Jim Phelps used to get on a famous weekly primetime TV show?

As ever, should you or any member of your [Impossible Missions] Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Perhaps because the Chairman and other key members of that Committee have histories of falsifying evidence for partisan political purposes.

And as The Palmieri Report explains further, members of the January 6 Committee have a lot of explaining to do. Not only about Ray Epps but also about their own conduct and proceedings.

Adam Kinzinger ought to shut up about Ray Epps

Indeed, Adam Kinzinger, the other token Republican on that Committee, unleashed a “tweet storm”:

Hey, buddy, keep your big fat mouth shut! If he’s on video inciting a riot, that’s unlawful in and of itself. And note:

Maybe they knew he was videoed talking about breaking into the Capitol the day before it was to happen and wanted to create distance.

Are. You. Foxtrotting. Serious!? Do you really expect people to believe that? Foxtrot that stool sample!

But of course, Adam Kinzinger does not know when to shut up.

Said his colleague Thomas Massie in reply to the admission that Ray Epps was on video:

Meaning: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot do you mean, saying Ray Epps “apparently broke no laws”?

Nick Arama at RedState sums it up this way: Adam Kinzinger “[blew] up the game.”

The New York Times talks about Ray Epps – but the correspondent cites Snopes!

And why did Trip Gabriel of The New York Times have to put in his two cents? And to cite Snopes, of all sources, “for what it’s worth”?

So Ray Epps told the Select Committee he was not a Fed? Anyone can tell anybody anything. Did he swear to that? We can’t even get a transcript.

They have evidence, Mr. Gabriel. You just don’t want to look.

And Snopes?

That impressed no one. And what do they have to say? Actually they don’t dispute any of the evidence CNAV, Revolver News, and others have shared. But they cite his denial, and the January 6 Committee denial, as contrary evidence. Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way.

Headline USA cites another user who raises an interesting point.

Namely: if Ray Epps didn’t draw a paycheck from the FBI, but did draw paycheck or 1099 payment from the CIA who then loaned him out to the FBI, then his denial might be technically correct – and operationally meaningless.

And again: where is the transcript of any interview Ray Epps had before that Committee?

Wrapping up

Dr. Steve Turley gives the best analysis of this situation. According to him, the January 6 committee has panicked over Ray Epps and the loose end that he is.

This goes to show that:

1. Ray Epps is most likely a false-flag operative. Whether he works for, or was on loan to, the FBI is “incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial,” as CNAV is sure his lawyer knows.
2. The January 6 Committee and its members have shown weakness. CNAV has always known that this Committee exist to write bills of attainder and an ex post facto law. The targets: President Donald J. Trump and all who voted for him. Their dismissal of Ray Epps as a suspect actually shows that he was a Fed, working for some agency.

And the only way to stop this travesty of American law, is with your vote at next Midterms.