Critics of the Attorney General are accusing her of stalling in regard to releasing the file on Epstein. The quote below may be an indication of why it is taking so long. In a nutshell there is a new boss and she isn’t the same as the old boss.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/07/pam-bondi-reveals-holdup-epstein-file-release/
“The FBI, they’re reviewing… there are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn and there are hundreds of victims and no one victim will ever get released, it’s just the volume and that’s what they’re going through right now,” Bondi said. “The FBI is diligently going through that… I’ll call him later.”
Pam Bondi, U S Attorney General
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida in 2006. The Palm Beach Police made the arrest based on the outcry of a fourteen-year-old girl. I was a cop for thirty years. Crime news interests me. I read some of the initial articles describing the circumstances of his arrest. Yeah, okay, it has been almost twenty years. That being said, I recall that mention was made of a large cache of videos (without regard to media, VHS, CD, hard drive) was seized. Some of the videos were described as sex tapes.
The reason that information stuck is because I had dealt with the logistical nightmare that such a cache causes investigators. A search warrant might get the cops into a home but not necessarily into the tapes, CD’s and computers. That calls for a whole new bevy of search warrants. Once that hurdle is cleared then there is the review, description of contents and logging of the evidence.
The Palm Beach District Attorney tanked the case, filed one charge and the rest is history. At some point the FBI marched in and stole the case and all the evidence.
I don’t know what the paperwork software is like for the FBI. I do know what Texas DPS forced on the narcotics task forces. I suspect that there are similarities. For those that don’t know Texas DPS is just like the FBI only with an inferiority complex. Pre DPS a complex report with lots of evidence to list would take two days to write. After DPS introduced their new and improved report writing software, the same report would take a minimum of forty hours (five days). Cops don’t like paperwork.
I suspect that an FBI agent confronted with viewing, describing and logging in a thousand filthy movies took a shortcut. What should have been three week and thirty-page comprehensive list: Item 1 Video (commercial) titled “Debbie Does Dallas… Item 1001 CD video of white male from Arkansas receiving oral sex by unidentified teenage girl.” Instead, it became: “Carboard box containing miscellaneous CDs and video tapes.” Ten minutes expended and one line on a report and done. Let’s go to lunch. Potential evidence of the great and powerful diddling middle and high school girls was missed. It was missed not only by the agent but also by his supervisor, the AUSA reviewing the case file and all of the FBI office pogues that followed. The videos were filed away and forgotten.
If the malfeasance of the original agent was discovered, then a decision was made at a higher level to ignore it. After all, all of the FBI agents involved in the investigation had received hero badges for their hard work. It would be a PR nightmare to reprimand the same agents for incompetence for the same work.
Pam Bondi and Kash Patel took over Justice and the FBI. Trump ordered the release of the Epstein file and that brings us to Bondi’s statement (above). As part of the review the files and evidence were dragged out of storage. “cardboard box containing miscellaneous CDs and video tapes” reappeared. There are two possible paths that led to the discovery of the contents of the box. This first path is that the agents doing the due diligence actually did their job. They looked at the miscellaneous contents and decided to review the media. The result is that the rumored Epstein sex tapes were no longer a rumor. There is a second possibility, that is that perpetrators of the original coverup saw an opportunity. It is called malicious obedience. There I was minding my own business, when suddenly…
Either way the Bondi team is faced with doing the work that should have been done twenty years ago. If a video of Blow Job Bill the serial rapist and former President surfaces who do you think is going to be blamed? It won’t be the FBI agents from yesteryear. Even though they screwed up the case because they couldn’t be bothered to do their job properly. I’m giving the FBI the benefit of the doubt. It is equally possible that those agents knew exactly what they had and “lost” the evidence.
I would like to think that the FBI agents of today are going about their job in a professional manner. But I can’t get the vision of a smoked filled room crowded with FBI agents watching these videos. I can hear the comments now: “Pass me a beer,” “Anymore popcorn left?” “Look at the tits on that fourteen-year-old!” That is a wildly inaccurate portrayal. Everybody knows you can’t smoke in a federal office building!
Either way the bad guy in this current controversy isn’t the Attorney General or the new Director of the FBI. At least it shouldn’t be.
