The US Attorney General Now Claims She Did Get All the Jeffrey Epstein Files, as the Head of the FBI's NY Office is Forced Into Retirement

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It's always seemed to me that the process of losing faith in something - a person, an institution, a belief, a hope - is almost always a gradual process. Rarely does your devotion to something just suddenly evaporate into the ether in one instant. Even when you get betrayed by a spouse, or blatantly lied to by someone you believed in, it's human nature to keep trusting in those that did you wrong. Typically it takes a while for the pattern of deception to really sink in, and for the last remaining flicker of hope to finally be extinguished. It's why hardly anyone remembers when they realized the terrible truth about Santa Claus. You have a Christmas of doubt. Another where you sort of go through the motions of believing. Then finally there's that one where mom openly tells you she's ordered your presents. 

All of which is a big windup to deliver this pitch about how last week so many of us lost faith that we'll ever get the full disclosure we've been promised on the Jeffrey Epstein files:

The SparkNotes version is that US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on national television a couple of weeks ago that the completed files were on her desk, and that she was just redacting the names of the 250 victims of the depraved ring of wealthy, influential child rapists before making everything else public. 

Then came an event at the White House where some right wing social media figures were invited to meet with the President. And according to some reports, on their way out the door after the meeting, were handed these binders dramatically labeled "The Epstein Files: Phase 1," and a photo op ensued:

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But then? Crickets. Despite the stagey theatricality of the scene and self-importance of the bold red headline on the front cover, there was literally nothing inside that hasn't been public knowledge for years. In fact, there were more redactions in those pages than the material that can easily be found online. 

So why the showy optics of it all? If the Attorney General of these United States wants to get this information out to the public, why not release it on the Justice Department's official site instead of bothering these Theater Kids by handing them what The Rolling Stones once referred to as some useless information/ supposed to fire my imagination? 

So AG Bondi released nothing. Except this letter to the new FBI Director that pinned the blame on his agency's New York office, the Southern District of NY, or SDNY. Claiming they have all the information, but won't fork it over. And demanding that they quit the stonewalling and get busy releasing. With a deadline of 8:00 am Friday:

Which had a lot of Americans - most importantly to me, this particular American - refreshing our X feed like it's the start of Free Agency. But again, crickets. Bondi's own X account contained no new information. Her latest post was days old, and was just an interview she did on Fox News that had nothing whatsoever to do with the most salacious scandal in modern US history. Again, this coming from the chief law enforcement officer of the country, who had previously said she had all the information staring at her from the top of her desk. She then proceeded to go radio silent all weekend. 

Until Monday night. When she claimed to have in fact gotten all the information she'd demanded from SDNY:

While that was going on, the head of SDNY was being forced into retirement, perhaps coincidentally but perhaps not:

NBC New York - The head of the FBI's New York Field Office was forced out of the bureau on Monday. …

Two of the sources said Assistant Director in Charge James Dennehy, a highly respected leader, was given a choice to resign or be fired. He was eligible for retirement and has officially retired.

In an email to colleagues on Monday announcing his retirement, Dennehy said he was forced out.

"I've been told many times in my life, ‘When you find yourself in a hole, sometimes it's best to quit digging.’ Screw that. I will never stop defending this joint," he wrote in the email, noting that he was "not given a reason" for the decision.

To recap: We've got the US Attorney General saying she's got all the information the public has been demanding for decades now. Presumably who was traveling to Pedo Island with Epstein. The evidence of their debauchery, including the blackmail videos. The information regarding who gave Epstein such a sweetheart deal on the rare occasions they did charge him with anything. All the sketchy details surrounding how the most notorious criminal in federal custody suddenly turned up dead in his jail cell. All of it. 

And on top of that, the person the AG accused of blocking the release of that information was just forced to commit career seppuku. So no one would be blamed for getting excited because finally, at long last, after all this waiting, hoping, and demanding, the truth will finally be coming out. Right?

Wrong. There is nobody who believes this any more. The staged spectacle of last week ended any hope this is ever going to happen. Again, it's a process to totally lose your faith in a belief, but I've completely lost mine. 

In the end, Epstein lost his life. And good riddance. Have fun being raped by demons for all eternity, dirt bag. But unless something substantially changes in the next few days, that creepshow will have one this battle. He picked just the right power people to blackmail. People too big to expose. People who are still walking among us. Escaping prosecution. Living lives of comfort and privilege. Giving interviews. Being treated like respectable gentlemen who make important decisions for the greater good of all mankind. Safe in the knowledge the gruesome, degenerate things they did will never see the light of day. 

It goes without saying that I hope I'm wrong. But when it comes to the Epstein Files, all hope is lost.