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2025-03-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
The Epstein Files: The FBI Swamp Is Deep and Wide, and Flows Through NYC
I lost track — what happened with this?
[HotAir] BREAKING NEWS: US Attorney General @PamBondi says we can expect brand new Jeffrey Epstein details TOMORROW. Expect flight logs and names… pic.twitter.com/dMn4nkKefV

— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) February 27, 2025

Well, it's now mid-afternoon on Thursday, and after all the hype, there's no list. And here's where the story gets really interesting. Attorney General Pam Bondi is pissed, and she wants answers.

Bondi learned yesterday that the New York City field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations was in possession of thousands of pages of records pertaining to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and is just refusing to turn it over to both FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C, and to the Department of Justice.

Bondi discussed this with Director Kash Patel, who was literally sworn in to run the Bureau two days ago. He had no idea the New York City office had gone rogue. Regardless, Bondi is not messing around here. She has given a hard redline. Compile the files and turn them over to DOJ by 8AM tomorrow, the 28th. She does not spell out the "or else", nor should she have to. She is also going to take possession of an after-action report in two weeks as to who in the New York office did not comply and why it was not done, and what heads have been rolled as a result. It's not a request.

A couple of things to note here. Number one, for all the talk on the left about how the government has become a dictatorship, Toure' being just the most recent example on CNN last night...

...what is happening within the Bureau is police state stuff, not a democratic republic. The FBI field offices answer directly to the D.C. office and its director. Period. The entire Bureau answers to the Attorney General. She is the boss. Bondi reports to and is held accountable to the president of the United States. The New York office does not have the ability to decide what gets turned out and what doesn't.

What is not known at this time is whether Patel has flooded the zone in New York. Are documents being destroyed right now? Are they finally cooperating? We don't know. All we do know is the rot at the Bureau is not just the 7th floor of the Hoover Building. It apparently is spread far and wide.

Watch this space, because events unfolding now are very fluid. If we're told in the morning that all of the documents are destroyed, and all that remains are a couple hundred pages of redacted material protecting the guilty, you're going to see the first crisis of confidence for Trump's new team.

Bondi and Patel seem to be on the same page. But right now, the seem to be the only two people in the Justice Department who are on that page, and that's not healthy for the republic.

John Podhoretz of Commentary recalls a period in time that is eerily similar to what's going on now - Troopergate.

This saga, of course, goes back to Former President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, when he was governor of Arkansas, using state troopers to procure many of the women who would become notches in Clinton's belt of sexual conquests. It wasn't a good look on Arkansas state law enforcement then, and it's not a good look for the Bureau now.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 When a person is rich, famous and screwing little kids.
Dumping $$$$$ in to certain persons laps to eliminate threats to that Rich and Famous, perverted status flows quickly and quietly.

What If? Say the person is given a quick and Tax-free hidden income, equal to 10 years of their working income.

Example given: Thomas Crooks and his still unexplained offshore funds.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-01 06:16||   2025-03-01 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Conservatives explode at botched Epstein document rollout: 'Complete disappointment'
Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-01 06:29||   2025-03-01 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 ...NYC FBI and DA's office?
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-03-01 07:18||   2025-03-01 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 So much for those innocent field level FBI agents, eh? The Denver office is just as bad.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-03-01 08:17||   2025-03-01 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 It amazes me that Comey’s daughter continues to draw a DIJ salary.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-01 08:58||   2025-03-01 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 He had no idea the New York City office had gone rogue.

He's pretty damn naive if that's the case.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-03-01 12:28||   2025-03-01 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Open a second front with P Diddy, use it to correlate the corruption.

As far as the someone you like may be on it, I say so what?

The entertainment industry died in 2020 when every single entertainer got on board with covid, no curiosity or questions asked. They are now either paid shills of interest groups, or auditioning to be. And if on the guest list, awful people anyways.

Ask yourself why Clooney's organization rushed to the defense of man-boy love after Indonesia criminalized it.

Tom Hanks on the list would make Forrest Gump a bit awkward, but then so is him and Obama spending the Greek nights away on Hanks' yacht.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-03-01 12:35||   2025-03-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

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