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The Epstein Chronicles
Millions of Documents, Zero Urgency: The DOJ’s Epstein Excuse Tour
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The Department of Justice has repeatedly argued that it cannot meet the congressionally mandated deadline to release all Jeffrey Epstein–related documents because of the massive volume of material and the need to review and redact sensitive...
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play social casino void where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. According to new reports, the SDNY is absolutely buried under Epstein files. And because they're so buried, it's causing all kinds of strife with other cases, including a few of the bigger cases that are making their way through the SDNY right now as we speak. And one of the judges has even went so far as to say that the SDNY should pull a few prosecutors from the Epstein files and put them to work on her case. Now, my opinion on that is no, thank you. Hire more prosecutors. Bring some in from other districts. We've been waiting for decades for transparency. You're not going to back burner this topic. Not again. Not now. Not with everybody so interested. The DOJ has a gigantic payroll. There is no way that I believe that they don't have enough people to sanitize these documents as well as handle the rest of their duties. I'm sorry, I don't buy it. Bring more people in, pay people more money, be done with it. You've had these files for how long? So don't tell me nobody's ever went through them. And if that's the case and nobody's ever went through them, how could you sit there and tell us that no investigation is necessary or warranted? How could you tell us that everything's closed and we're just gonna move on? Because both things can't be true. You can't say that you need to keep going through all these documents if you've already done so. Right? Who's gonna believe that? Oh, well, we have nothing to investigate. But we didn't even look at all the evidence. We're just, you know, going on vibes, like I told you this, trying to get you to lose interest. They're trying to make it like this is such a gigantic task that it's impossible for the federal government to even release the files. Which is crazy, considering he's only a lone predator, right? Only one single guy who had some proclivities. That's what the government told us. So why do they have 5 million documents about that guy? Why do they have so many documents that need to be sanitized? Could it be that the government is not telling us the truth? Well, that would be a shock, huh? This article was published by Politico and the headline top Federal Prosecutor Is Crushed by Epstein Files Workload. This article was authored by Erica Orden. The premier federal prosecutor's office in the country is consumed by the task of reviewing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to four people familiar with the matter and internal memos obtained by Politico. Well, good. Do your job. You had a deadline to meet. You should have met your deadline. I guarantee you that you're not going to give that kind of leeway to people that are facing charges in the sdny, right? What if they miss their deadline? What if they miss a discovery date? I'm sure the judge will just shrug and tell the person that it's okay and they could just make the next date. You know, they're busy, right? Way too much discovery to go through. I wonder how that would work out for you. Virtually every prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who isn't handling an imminent or ongoing trial, including some who are working on other major cases, has been tasked with helping to review more than 2 million files to redact information about Epstein. Sex trafficking victims. Bullshit lies. Redacting things about everybody, every one of their friends, anybody who's a co conspirator, redacted. Just giving the middle finger to the law and to you. That's really what it comes down to. They don't respect you. They know you're not going to do anything. They know that you're going to, you know, get tired of it. You're going to move on. There'll be a new topic that you're going to be pissed off about. Insert Greenland or insert, you know, ICE or whatever. And they know that they're going to be able to, to move this narrative, how they want to move it. And that's just how these things work usually. And that's why I say the full court press has to be maintained. We can't get lax. We can't, you know, get comfortable. We have to continue to demand full transparency. And I don't want to hear any about, oh, we don't have enough lawyers. You sure have enough lawyers when you're going after the mafia or when you're going after somebody for tax evasion. I don't want to hear it. Sorry to hire more people out here talking about buying Greenland for like $700 billion or whatever. Meanwhile, we don't have enough staff at SDNY to go through the Epstein files and do their regular duty. Here's an idea. Use your Greenland money to hire some more lawyers. Prosecutors are being crushed by the work, said one person familiar with the matter, who, like others quoted in the article, was granted anonymity to discuss internal process. You know who's really being crushed? The survivors. That's who. As you cry about your workload, they're going through their daily with the burden of what happened to them squarely on their shoulders, knowing nobody gives a knowing that the vast majority of people in office would rather play politics than hold anyone accountable. And then you see this. Imagine seeing this as a survivor. Oh, we don't have enough resources to make sure you get the justice you deserve after you were assaulted by some sick, degenerate fuckbag when you were 14 or 15 years old. Sorry, go back to the end of the line. For all intents and purposes, that's what they're saying. And my response to that is an emphatic, fuck you, do your job, quit crying, and if you're not capable of doing it, resign, and we'll get people that can. The scale of the review has raised questions about whether the task is stretching prosecutors too thin and and pushing other work to the back burner. In an office that regularly handles some of the country's most important white collar terrorism and financial crimes cases. This is the goal. Oh, look, this is just taking up time. Epstein's old news. Let's just keep moving. The problem is what Epstein was up to has directly caused the problems that we're in now. All these politicians, all these thieves, all these people who think they can get over on us. The reason they think that is because they've never been held accountable. So I'm sorry that some of these other cases don't have enough people working them. But these survivors have been waiting for justice for decades. It's time for somebody else to get in the back of the line. Because the days of shoving this one back in the hole, those days are over. And there is no going backwards now, only forward. So if you have to hire more lawyers, do so. What nobody wants to hear, though, is about how busy you are and how much of a workload you're carrying. Even several of the prosecutors working on the narco terrorism and drug trafficking case against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, perhaps the most prominent prosecution in the justice system at the moment, are also assigned to work on the Epstein Documents, according to a person familiar with the matter. You know what's so funny about Venezuela? Are there no more drug boats to blow up? I mean, I thought we were blowing up drug boats to stop drugs from coming into the United States, but now we moved on to taking oil tankers and snatching oil. Huh. Seems legit. Could it be that there was never any threat of drugs from Venezuela and you were just bullshitted once again, as part of a Wag the Dog strategy to get your attention off of other matters? Hint, hint, wink, wink. I mean, I thought we were blowing up drug boats. Where are all these drug boats that we were blowing up? You mean to tell me that all the drugs have stopped coming out of Venezuela now? The whole last thing was nothing but a lie. The whole scenario was a bunch of bs. And anybody who knows anything about the war on drugs, which is really the war on you, knows that the real problem is coming from Mexico. Cocaine's not the problem. The crack epidemic, that was yesterday's news. You know what the problem is now? Opiates. Fentanyl. And no fentanyl's coming from Venezuela. And in that same vein, the Madero fucking case isn't even the most important one in the world of narco trafficking. That's the El Mayo case, okay? El Mayo, much more powerful in the world of drugs than anybody else. And with his case working its way through the system, that's the most important narco case when it comes to American people. And the effect that the drugs have on our country. Nothing to do with Maduro, I promise you that. Now, if you want to talk about the geopolitical implications of Venezuela, that's a different conversation. But that's not what the president told us, right? If he would have been honest and said, look, we need Venezuela because we don't want Chinese or Russian influence in our hemisphere. At least that's more acceptable than making up a story about drug boats and then just blowing them up. And before you start crying about me picking on your buddy Trump, I was just as vocal about Obama using drone strikes to blow up American citizens, even if they were terrorists. Due process matters, folks, okay? It's important. And the precedent that's been set not only by Trump, but by Obama and presidents previously with drone strikes is not a good one. And please don't get that confused. If we have enemies on the battlefield, drone strike the out of them, I don't care. But you can't use drones on an American citizen without due process. And the same goes for this smuggling operation. Why not just Intercede those boats, intercept them, take the product, arrest the people, and be done with it. But we blow the boats up. Never made sense. And still doesn't. Some prosecutors tasked with the Epstein review have weighed asking for extensions on deadlines in their other work, according to another person familiar with the matter. All right, conspiracy hat time. I think that this has to do with the Justice Department telling them to slow walk it so that they can have more time to get rid of things and to get you worry about other subjects. That's what I think they're doing now. Do I have proof of that? Of course I don't. But it seems the most likely scenario here we went from Pam Bondi saying all these files are on her desk. They're all over, you know, coming over in trucks, et cetera, et cetera, to now we're finding millions more. Oh, there's too much work for the Justice Department to do. Come on, man, if you buy that, I. I really don't know what to tell you. A spokesperson for the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office declined to comment. Justice Department officials have described the scope of the work in recent court filings, although the burden on the Manhattan office appears to be even more significant than some of those descriptions suggest. In a filing earlier this month, Jay Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in the office, told a federal judge that over 125 lawyers in the Southern District of New York, which employs about 200 assistant U.S. attorneys, are working on the effort. You don't need full blown lawyers to do this. Bring in interns, bring in paralegals and have them do it. And then from there, you can have a group of lawyers, seasoned lawyers, go through that work and look at all the redactions and be done with it. Seems pretty easy to me. They're making it more complicated than they have to, and that's by design. Many lawyers assigned to the task were expected to spend the next few weeks dedicating all or a substantial portion of their workday to reviewing and redacting files, Clayton wrote in an update last week. He disclosed that more than 500 people across the Justice Department, including attorneys at the department's headquarters and in the Southern District of Florida, have been reviewing the files. The scope of the work in Manhattan stems at least in part from the fact that the office handled both the the sex trafficking case against Maxwell and Epstein, with Maxwell serving a 20 year prison sentence. The massive Epstein undertaking began several days before the 19th deadline by which the government was legally obligated to begin disclosing the files. So why did they wait till a couple of days. They had over a month to get prepared, but they waited all by design. You don't have to be a genius to connect these dots. You don't have to be some fantastic investigator. It's all right there in plain English and the neon lights that are flashing say F you. Carl Metzner, the office associate U.S. attorney who supervises the Victim Witness Unit and Privilege Review Team, suggested to prosecutors in a memo that the initial marching orders were unclear. This obviously raises a whole bunch of questions which we don't have all the answers to at the moment, he wrote. A follow up from another official, notified staff that we, as in every AUSA in the office, will soon be asked to take on redactions of discovery material in connection with the Epstein files. The note continued, we appreciate that this is unexpected and may be disruptive as people wind down their work for the remainder of the year. All we can do is try to gather as much information as we can and help you balance this with all the other competing deadlines you are juggling. So this is really the narrative that they're gonna go with, huh? That things are just so restrictive, that's why they miss the deadline? Not that it's a cover up or anything like that, but you know, simply, it's just too much to ask. Is that really the narrative that they're gonna try and sell us? And more importantly, is that a narrative that you're willing to buy? A third memo that appears to have been sent that day before the deadline read, we expect to ask that each AUSA Chief Deputy, Chief Executive Staff included, complete a batch of approximately 75 documents to certify by the end of the day. Oh, a whole 75 documents. How tough could that be? Go through, look for victims names, redact them, move on. At bottom, we're being entrusted to protect victim information. It said, while the timing of this review is challenging for many reasons, you including that you're all very busy, this is an important task and we owe it to the victims to do it, right? Oh, yeah, it's all about the victims, right? The DOJ really cares. That's why they had their little meeting with Glenn Maxwell and never with the survivors. Save it.
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