The Epstein Files

[Samson]

The Epstein Files Are Said to Be Very, Very Damaging

a few months ago, when the FBI was tasked with going through the Epstein files in order to hide the felon’s name, Allison Gill (Mueller, She Wrote) issued an open invitation to anyone at the FBI to contact her and talk about it. They could remain anonymous. As hundreds of agents were assigned to the task, not surprisingly, quite a few reached out to her. Here are some of the things they told her:

• It is much worse and much more voluminous than people expected
• Sometimes there are videos. Sometimes agents had to take breaks because what they watched was so upsetting, especially if there were children. Also lots of photos.
• First had an Excel file to track the felon’s name, but this was both unwieldy and not secure, so revised. But before this happened, more and more people learned about what others were seeing and tracking.
• Done incompetently. Kept changing what the requirements were so had to start anew.
• Kash Patel seems to be intent not on protecting survivors but on punishing them some more
• The shutdown has stopped, not just the discharge petition, but the courts working on freedom of information requests. Gill has one regarding the tasks given to the members of the FBI assigned to this stupid task.

But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with “more than 100 Republicans” planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming,” reported Schuster.

The Trump administration has failed at every turn to mitigate anxieties about the president’s long-time friendship with the child sex criminal. The typically bombastic Attorney General Pam Bondi was silent when asked about the photos during a Senate hearing last month, a choice that further “spooked” several GOP lawmakers, with many interpreting her nonresponse as a very vocal “yes.”

Spoiler 40 minute youtube I have not watched :

 

[Gori the Grey]

So the biggest extra thing you get if you do watch the video is that when this breaks, it's going to be a mess of Trump-Bondi-Patel's own making, because, in an effort to smear the victims, they involved a thousand people from at least four agencies in handling the files. At one point, they wanted it wrapped up in a single day, and that's why they drew in so many people (to cover 100,000 documents). But 1) they kept changing their mind about how they wanted the files redacted, so people have gone over the material in the files multiple times and 2) the extra people they drew in didn't have training in how to redact material. That means, 1) even if you now disappeared the documents, there are 1000 people who could testify as to what they've seen (and it's so troubling that it made people who had to watch the videos break down) and 2) it increases the number of contacts within the agencies that various Republican legislators have, and therefore from whom they have been able to hear how bad the material is; that explains the hundred who are going to try to get themselves on the good side of this when it breaks. Finally, the shutdown may continue, because it's the only way to stop the matter from breaking.