FBI Delivers Epstein Files, New York Field Office Head Fired

On Friday, I posted that something like this was goinmg to have to happen if Bondi and Patel were going to have any credibility. Bondi wrote to Patel,

By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained.

I said,

But as of yesterday morning, there was no indication that any of those allegedly missing Epstein items had been delivered -- or, alternatively, that any recalcitrant FBI officials had been fired. And where was Director Patel? If the allegation was that the New York office was sitting on those files, wouldn't you expect Patel to be up there, commandeering a conference room, and asking hard questions? Apparently not.

I was willing to grant that the Oval Office confrontation with Zelensky would soak up the weekend news cycle, and as of last night, it does seem that Bondi was able to get the FBI to follow orders.

James Dennehy, who leads the FBI New York Field Office, revealed to his staff on Monday that he was forced to step down, a move that comes after he resisted directives from President Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice.

Dennehy wrote in a message to his staff, which was reviewed by the Washington Examiner, that he was told late on Friday that he was to retire on Monday. He “was not given a reason for this decision,” he wrote.

. . . Bondi alleged that a “source” informed her that the FBI New York Field Office was withholding “thousands of pages” from her related to the [Epstein] case, and she ordered newly-confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate the matter and provide her with any outstanding material by Friday. It remains unclear what files Bondi believed the New York office was improperly withholding.

Via Just the News,

Bondi told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday that she has now received a "truckload" of new information that she and her team are quickly sorting through. But they have to be careful in protecting Epstein's victims, she said.

"We got them all Friday at 8 a.m. Thousands of pages of documents. I have the FBI going through them," she said. "It's now in the possession of the FBI. Director [Kash] Patel is going to get me a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld ... We're gonna go through it as fast as we can."

She also accused the Biden administration of not pursuing the case or Justice for the victims, even after Epstein's death.

"No one did anything with them. Why were they sitting in the Southern District of New York? I want a full report on that," Bondi said. "You know, sadly, these people don't believe in transparency. But I think more unfortunately, I think a lot of them don't believe in honesty."

There are still some lingering questions. Both Bondi and Patel appear to have been willing to take the FBI's word before last Thursday that they'd turned over all the records, when once they were released, almost nobody bought it that this was the case. If rank and file in the alt media were able to see through this instantly, why were Bondi and Patel so confident that the limited hangout would satisfy anyone? Rep Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), the Chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, continues to be skeptical:

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she was “not confident” yet that Attorney General Pam Bondi would release the client list of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“I’m not confident on the Epstein client list because I haven’t had the briefing yet from the Department of Justice,” Luna said during her Monday night appearance on One America News’s “The Matt Gaetz Show.”

“I’ll know more tomorrow on that, but based on what I’m hearing from the attorney general, she keeps saying that she is going to release something, so I am going to take her at her word for that,” the Florida Republican told former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

Over the weekend, Bondi said on Fox News she was misled on the Epstein documents while also defending the ridiculed documents dump on Thursday.

“I kept saying, there has to be more. There has to be more,” Bondi said. “I was assured that’s it.”

Well, Bondi is just the US Attorney General, after all. How can she be expected to know all this high-level stuff? And so far, there's still no new info and no schedule for when any of it will be released.