Friday, July 18, 2025

A Hint…

 …of what I’m getting at:

“According to information my office received, the FBI was pressured to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD) … on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline,” Durbin wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino.

“This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests,” the letter continued.

“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned," Durbin added.
No, not flagging Trump’s name (quelle surprise 🤷🏻‍♂️), but following privacy laws, among other things. I mean, there may be adults named in those documents who had nothing to do with Epstein’s sexual activities. And there is the protection of minors (who may be adults by now, but still…), that has to be honored.

Durbin is on the right track:
Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pointedly asked Bondi to explain why she had claimed on Feb. 21 that Epstein had compiled a "client list" that she had sitting on her desk, when the DOJ released records just six days later saying such a list did not exist.

"Aside from the negative backlash you received over the February 27 record release, what was the purpose of placing almost 1,000 FBI IMD personnel on 24-hour shifts to review Epstein-related records over the course of a two-week period in March?" the senator asked. "Who made the decision to reassign hundreds of New York Field Office personnel to this March review of Epstein-related records?"

"Why were personnel told to flag records in which President Trump was mentioned?" Durbin added.
He is certainly asking the right questions. Ultimately, this has less to do with Trump being embarrassed (which is where I think the Epstein trail ends), and more to do with his Administration being thoroughly incompetent. And corrupt.

That’s what brought down Nixon. And that didn’t happen before public opinion decided Nixon was incompetent (Watergate did start with a “third-rate burglary”), and then saw he was also corrupt. Nixon didn’t have MAGA, but he won in ‘72 with the largest total electoral victory in U.S. history.

It could still happen.

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