Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Monday that a federal court has delivered a “truckload of evidence” related to the Jeffrey Epstein case to the FBI’s headquarters — all of which she promised to soon make public.
Bondi had given the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a Feb. 28 deadline to turn over information about the late pedophile’s case. She previously accused the district of withholding “thousands of pages of documents” related to Epstein ahead of the Justice Department’s long-awaited release of his contact book and flight logs.
“So, we got them all – hopefully all of them – by Friday at 8 a.m.,” the attorney general told Fox News host Sean Hannity, noting that there are “thousands of pages of documents.”
“I have the FBI going through them,” Bondi said, adding that FBI Director Kash Patel “is going to get us a detailed report as to why” the documents had been withheld.
The attorney general insisted that she was shocked at the limited scope of the documents the DOJ had previously obtained from the FBI.
“You’re looking at these documents going, ‘These aren’t all the Epstein files’ …And we’re going, ‘Where’s the rest of the stuff?’” Bondi said.
She explained that a “source” notified the DOJ that “all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York,” which spurred her to issue the district a deadline to turn over documents — which they complied with.
“A truckload of evidence arrived,” Bondi said. “It’s now in the possession of the FBI.”
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New York FBI Field Office Head Forced Out Days After His Office Was Revealed to Have Been Hiding Thousands of Epstein Documents
There has been a significant shake-up within the FBI as one of its top officials has been forced out.
NBC News reported Monday that James Dennehy, the head of the FBI’s New York office, threw in the towel just days after his office was revealed to have been hiding thousands of Epstein documents.
“Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did,” Dennehy wrote in an email obtained by NBC. “I was not given a reason for this decision.”
Two sources confirmed to NBC that Dennehy was given the choice between getting fired or resigning. He chose the latter.
She later announced that a key FBI official involved in withholding these critical documents “will not be working for us anymore.” Was it Dennehy?
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the FBI was withholding thousands of Epstein files. She ordered the FBI to provide the complete Epstein files by Friday morning, February 28, and directed an immediate investigation into the oversight.
Last Thursday’s much-hyped release of “The Epstein Files: Phase One” fell flat for many Americans hungry for the truth. The 120-page dump, handed over to a select group of MAGA influencers, was a heavily redacted dud—mostly rehashed information previously seen.
NBC News also noted that Dennehy previously wrote an email to his staff after the Trump Justice Department requested a list of employees who had worked criminal cases against the hundreds of Trump J6 supporters persecuted by the Biden regime.
As TGP readers know, then-acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll refused to hand over the names of the officials involved in the J6 and Trump investigations.
“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own as good people are being walked out of the FBI,” Dennehy wrote in the email. “And others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
“Time for me to dig in,” Dennehy added.
Now, it is time for the Epstein files to be fully released. No more excuses.
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The weaponization of the federal government has a long history
Now that House Republicans have created a “Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government,” let’s revisit a classic of that power-abusing genre, featuring its greatest star, Richard M. Nixon.
The subcommittee’s express purpose is investigating federal investigators for alleged “illegal or improper, unconstitutional, or unethical activities,” at which Nixon was an acknowledged master. I’ve been listening to Nixon abuse power on the secret White House tapes for two decades with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. I’ve written about his decisions to sabotage Vietnam peace talks to damage the Democrats’ 1968 presidential campaign, to time his withdrawal from Vietnam to help his 1972 reelection campaign, and to spring former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa from prison in return for the union’s political support.
This story is a forgotten sequel to the Watergate break-in. No one has ever proved that President Nixon ordered burglars to photograph documents and plant listening devices at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, known as the DNC.
But Nixon himself created proof that he abused his presidential authority to go after the DNC with the investigative powers of the Internal Revenue Service. He captured this high crime on tape less than two months after the Watergate burglars’ arrests.
‘Can’t we investigate people?’
“Are we looking over the financial contributors of the Democratic National Committee?” Nixon asked his chief of staff on Aug. 3, 1972. “Are we running their income tax returns? Or is the Justice Department checking to see whether or not there’s any antitrust suits? Do we have anything going on any of these things?”
“Not as far as I know,” said H.R. “Bob” Haldeman.
Not about breaking news. Not about unfounded opinions.
“We have all this power and we aren’t using it. Now, what the Christ is the matter?” Nixon asked.
“We’ve got a guy who’s a pluperfect bastard. He’s a loyalist – he’s a fanatic loyalist – in the IRS,” said John D. Ehrlichman, whose title was assistant to the president for domestic affairs and whose job was henchman.
“He’s with us, you mean?” Nixon asked.
“He’s our guy,” Ehrlichman said. “One Treasury secretary after another, starting with [David M.] Kennedy, [John B.] Connally, now [George P.] Shultz, has said, ‘Oh, Jesus, can’t you get this guy out of there? Can’t you just take him out? He’s making all kinds of trouble for us. He’s too partisan.’”
The president’s mood darkened. “Shultz is not long for this life, in my opinion, because he’s not being political enough,” Nixon said. “I don’t care how nice a guy is. I don’t care how good an economist he is. We can’t have this bullshit.” His frustration was growing. “Can’t we investigate people?” Nixon asked. “Is there anything we can do?”
“Yes,” Ehrlichman said.
“I would think that we could get some people with some guts in the second term, when we don’t care about repercussions,” Haldeman said.
Nixon wanted to do something immediately about the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Larry O’Brien. O’Brien directed John F. Kennedy’s victorious presidential campaign in 1960 and Lyndon B. Johnson’s in 1964. “If you could dirty up O’Brien now, I think it might be a lot better than to wait until later,” Nixon said.
Abuse of power
Under pressure from the White House, the IRS subjected O’Brien to an audit during the 1972 presidential campaign. The audit found a “relatively small deficiency,” which O’Brien promptly paid. Treasury Secretary Shultz and IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters told Ehrlichman there was nothing more they could do.
“I wanted them to turn up something and send him to jail before the election,” Ehrlichman later said. There are few purer expressions of authoritarianism than an attempt to jail the titular head of the opposition party during a campaign.
Shortly before Nixon resigned in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee cited his abuse of his power over the IRS in an article of impeachment.
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