#Congress
24 entriesPeople (13)
- Charlie Rose North Carolina congressman on the House intelligence committee, briefed on the CIA and Army remote-viewing programs from 1978 to 1981, who pressed for their funding and later on the Finders case.
- Hank Brown Republican representative and senator from Colorado, ranking member of the Kerry subcommittee's BCCI inquiry and co-author of its December 1992 report.
- James Comer Kentucky Republican congressman and chairman of the House Oversight Committee who in 2025 subpoenaed the Justice Department and Jeffrey Epstein's estate for Epstein records and released the estate's productions.
- Jamie Raskin Maryland Democratic congressman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee who from 2025 pursued Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a Texas prison camp, her reported treatment there and Epstein's gifts to Bard College.
- Jim Himes Jim Himes is a U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th district and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence whose name appeared on the leaked 2026 registration roster of Peter Thiel's secretive Dialog society.
- Larry Combest Texas Republican and former aide to John Tower who chaired the House intelligence committee in 1995-96, received the CIA's Star Gate transfer report, and produced the IC21 review.
- Nancy Mace South Carolina Republican congresswoman on the Oversight and Armed Services committees who voted in 2025 to subpoena the Justice Department's Epstein files, signed the discharge petition, and moved the 2026 Bondi subpoena.
- Richard D'Amato Senate Appropriations Committee counsel under Robert Byrd who wrote the 1995 language moving Star Gate to the CIA, later a Maryland delegate and chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
- Ro Khanna Democratic congressman for California's Silicon Valley district since 2017, lead author of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, who read six redacted names from the files on the House floor in 2026.
- Robert Garcia California Democratic congressman, formerly mayor of Long Beach, who as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee released Jeffrey Epstein's emails about Donald Trump and pressed for the Justice Department's files.
- Stacey Plaskett Virgin Islands delegate to Congress since 2015, formerly counsel to the territory's Economic Development Commission, whose 2014 island meeting, campaign receipts and 2019 hearing texts with Jeffrey Epstein drew a failed 2025 censure.
- Thomas Massie MIT-trained engineer and Republican congressman from Kentucky who forced the 2025 House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act and lost his 2026 primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger after record super PAC spending.
- Tom Lewis Thomas F. Lewis (1924-1998) was a Republican congressman from Florida who, along with Rep. Charlie Rose, received documents from private consultant Henry 'Skip' Clements in October 1993 and applied pressure to the DOJ that helped trigger the reinvestigation of The Finders case.
Organizations (9)
- Horizon Institute for Public Service Nonprofit founded in 2022 that pays technology fellows placed in congressional offices, federal agencies and think tanks; Politico reported Open Philanthropy had effectively created it.
- House Banking Committee House committee created in 1865 as Banking and Currency; under Henry Gonzalez it investigated the BNL loans to Iraq over executive-branch resistance, and under Jim Leach the Systematics allegations.
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Principal investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, which from 2025 subpoenaed Jeffrey Epstein's estate, deposed Bill and Hillary Clinton, subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi and cited Leon Black for contempt.
- House Committee on the Judiciary Standing committee of the House since 1813, overseeing the Justice Department, whose 1992 report under Jack Brooks found strong evidence the department stole INSLAW's PROMIS and sought an independent counsel.
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence House committee created in 1977 to oversee the intelligence community, whose staff were briefed on the CIA's psychic research that year and whose evaluation subcommittee under Charlie Rose pressed the Pentagon to study remote viewing.
- Kerry Committee Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee under John Kerry that investigated drugs and foreign policy in 1987-88 and BCCI from 1988 to 1992, with a staff of two attorneys and no travel budget.
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senate standing committee since 1816, hearing diplomatic nominations and CIA testimony on Chile, whose Kerry subcommittee reported in 1988 that the State Department had selected companies owned by drug traffickers to supply the Contras.
- Senate Judiciary Committee Standing Senate committee since 1816, overseeing the Justice Department and FBI and judicial nominations, whose chief investigator relayed a career official's INSLAW allegations to the company in 1988.
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Permanent Senate committee created in 1976 after the Church Committee to oversee intelligence; its budget subcommittee ended Army remote-viewing funding in 1982, and its 2014 study documented the CIA's interrogation program.
Events (1)
- 1995 transfer of Star Gate to the CIA The 1995 Congressionally directed transfer of the DIA's Star Gate remote-viewing program to the CIA, which the CIA used to review, declassify and close it.
Concepts (1)
- Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act The Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), enacted April 20, 2024, reauthorized FISA Section 702 through April 20, 2026, codified modest procedural reforms to FBI querying practices, and defeated a bipartisan warrant amendment by a 212-212 tied House vote.
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