The FBI Swamp Is Deep and Wide, and Flows Through NYC

Wednesday night, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared on Fox News with Jesse Watters, and among the many subjects covered, she announced that the long-promised release of the Jeffrey Epstein list – all of the clients of the most infamous child sex trafficker and conduit for illegal and illicit sex that would have made Caligula blush. 

The Boss wrote a great post earlier with the wise counsel of Professor Alan Dershowitz – if you’re to release it, release it all. Don’t fall into the trap of cherry-picking what parts you make public and which parts you withhold. 

Here is what Bondi said on Fox. 

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. 

If FBI Agents at SDNY are actively interfering with Pam Bondi’s attempts to get documents regarding Epstein, they should face criminal charges IMMEDIATELY. pic.twitter.com/KCRsIY3fmq

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 27, 2025

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. 

Has anyone else reported this? I have weird Troopergate vibes here https://t.co/fxhtBYiVqR

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 27, 2025

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. 

Now if we actually had a media with any journalistic curiosity, they would be staking out the New York field office, and working their contacts inside the Bureau and DOJ to find out whether the rogue office is now cooperating, and if the documents still exist and whether they’ve been turned over. 

Don’t count on it, though. They’re too busy trying to bait Donald Trump to get jealous of Elon Musk. 

Kaitlan Collins is the reason nobody misses Jim Acosta. For all intents and purposes, she is Acosta now.