DOJ Blocks Ray Epps FOIA Request

"You mentioned January 6th. First of all, many Republican members of Congress tried to visit some of the detention facilities where the January 6th defendants were being held. They didn’t try to break down doors. They didn’t do anything out of control like this. These were political stunts.

But you and the Gateway Pundit and one of your reporters filed a Freedom of Information Act request about Ray Epps. People remember Ray Epps — that man on your screen — as a possible government informant. He strongly denies it, but there are a lot of strange things surrounding him.

You received a letter from the FBI, and this concerns me. It’s not even really about Ray Epps — it’s more about the letter, in my opinion, that you got from the FBI. Let me read to you why they refused to release the information about Ray Epps. They said there wasn’t enough public interest. “Please note that you have not sufficiently demonstrated the public interest.” Personal and medical files and similar records, whose disclosure could constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy, and on top of that, it’s supposedly not in the public interest.

Everyone is talking about Ray Epps, Jim.

-Yes, absolutely. That was nonsense they told us. So I spoke with Yehuda Miller, who submitted the FOIA request. We work closely together. And we’re going to keep pushing because this is ridiculous. The American people deserve to know what Ray Epps was doing that day. Was he an undercover FBI agent? Or someone else? Who was funding him, if he was getting paid? And why wasn’t this man punished when we saw others who did less than Ray Epps go to prison for years?

So Jim, we’re going to get to the bottom of this, and we’re shocked. We hope Kash Patel and Pam Bondi agree with us — and you’re absolutely right."

nfamous January 6 instigator Ray Epps was listed as #16 on the FBI Most Wanted List for a few days after the January 6, 2021 protests until he was removed from the list.

Epps led the charge on the US Capitol and was up front when protesters broke through two bike rack barriers. And it was Ray Epps who pushed a giant MAGA sign at police, a crime that sent at least eight protesters to prison for several years.

Yet, Ray Epps was quickly removed from the FBI Most Wanted List for some reason. We still have no idea why the FBI did this.

Current FBI Director Kash Patel spoke about this oddity on Timcast back in 2023.

Kash Patel: I think as a former federal prosecutor and a public defender who defended a lot of these types of cases, what you need to show is whether or not the FBI and government agents were using undercover operatives and informants on the day of January 6th, because if you can show that, you know they’ve been at… Hang on.

But the paperwork shows having run informants, that’s a six-month buildup. Minimum. It’s not like they just dropped them into the Proud Boys and said, Hey, don’t disrupt, please. Once you prove that, then you defeat the insurrection narrative with the FBI’s own documentation, forget what the videotape shows…

…I’m not saying I know definitively. What I’m saying is a reasonable suspicion is that there were agents, there’s a video showing a guy with an earpiece pulling people into the building. All You combine that with the evidence of Ray Epps, and it looks like you have a preponderance of evidence suggesting there may have been federal law enforcement involved in making that thing happen…

…I’ll get you beyond a reasonable doubt. Two pieces of information. Ray Epps was on FBI’s most wanted list one day, and the next day, he was off of the FBI’s most wanted list.

There are only two ways that happens. You die or you’re an informant. Put that aside. Under Congressional testimony, Jill Sanborn, who I used to work with, the head of the FBI counterintelligence division in charge of all these investigations, testified under oath when Senator Cruz asked her flat out, were there federal agents involved with January sixth?

She said, Senator, I can’t answer that at this time. If the answer was definitive no, having been a DOJ FBI guy myself, she would have gone there and said, No, absolutely not. The reason she said, I can’t answer that is because of the same stonewalling they gave us during Russiagate with Christopher Steele, Halper and everybody else. It’s the same narrative, and I’m telling you they were there.

Kash Patel: “Ray Epps was on FBI’s most wanted list one day, and the next day he was off. There are only two ways that happens: you die, or you are an informant.”

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— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) March 9, 2023

We still don’t know why Ray Epps was removed from the FBI’s Most Wanted List.

Last Wednesday, investigative journalist Yehuda Miller, on behalf of The Gateway Pundit, made a FOIA request from the Department of Justice for any and all information regarding Ray Epps and January 6, including all communications and directives relating to the removal of Ray Epps from the wanted list.

We also requested all communications between the FBI and Ray Epps from Jan 1, 2020, through Jan 1, 2025, and all files, records, and communications relating to Ray Epps from Jan 1, 2020, through Jan 1, 2025.

Read the full article here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fbi-responds-yehuda-miller-gateway-pundits-foia-ray/