Fox News stars Jesse Watters, along with senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, directly challenged the Department of Justice’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein kept no client list on Monday.
Doocy confronted Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about contradictory statements from Attorney General Pam Bondi, while a CIA whistleblower told Watters that government officials may have destroyed evidence.
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou appeared on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday evening, blasting the official findings — and said a government cover-up was likely.
“No, I don’t think this adds up,” Kiriakou said when asked if he believed the DOJ and FBI conclusions. “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.”
Kiriakou said that elements within the intelligence community may have destroyed evidence to protect powerful figures.
“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 said. “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.”
The CIA veteran drew parallels to other infamous government cover-ups from the past.
“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. “I’m sorry. I just don’t buy it because I know how these people operate.”
During a Monday press briefing at the White House, Doocy questioned the Department of Justice’s memo declaring that the alleged sex trafficker kept no “incriminating ‘client list,'” citing Bondi’s own February statement claiming she had reviewed such a list.
“So, what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?” Doocy asked.
In a statement February, Bondi said the Department of Justice had Epstein’s client list and was prepared to release it to the public. “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review,” she said.
Leavitt claimed Bondi was referring to broader documentation rather than a specific Epstein client list, which the Department of Justice now says does not exist.
“Yes, she was saying the entirety of all the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. That’s what the attorney general was referring to, and I’ll let her speak for that,” Leavitt said.
The press secretary insisted the Trump administration had never promised to release a list of names, but had committed to conducting “an exhaustive investigation.”
“That’s what they did, and they provided the results of that. That’s transparency,” she said.
A two-page DOJ memo released Sunday said there was no evidence Epstein ever blackmailed powerful globalist figures, said the disgraced billionaire never had a client list of his elite globalist friends, and said he committed suicide alone in his Manhattan jail cell.
The findings directly contradict years of speculation and conspiracy theories about the convicted sex trafficker’s activities and death.
Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking in 2019, only to be found dead in his New York Metropolitan Correctional Center cell just before his trial was set to begin. Officials ruled his death a suicide, though circumstances surrounding it fueled widespread speculation online.
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump vowed to release all Epstein files, with both FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino also promising to do the same.
However, now both officials say evidence shows Epstein committed suicide, with Bongino stating flatly in May that Epstein “killed himself.”
The administration’s findings have created divisions within Trump’s own base. Many prominent MAGA influencers, including Trump ally Laura Loomer, have called for Bondi’s firing.