Waiting to learn the "there" that's there in the Epstein saga

 

July 19 and 20, 2025 (180 and 181/1461)

Me thinks he doth protest too much. TOM and the Epstein sich. If there’s nothing there there, why focus so much on making it a nothing? Hmmmmm. “FBI agents were tasked earlier this year with flagging any mentions of President Donald Trump while reviewing files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. Durbin included the allegation in a letter he sent Friday, July 18, to the FBI and the Department of Justice. Durbin said the FBI was pressured to place 1,000 agents and other bureau employees on 24-hour shifts to review 100,000 Epstein-related documents “that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline.”

Many of those assigned to the review “lacked the expertise to identify statutorily protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses” and were “instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”

“MAGA world is completely imploding over the Jeffrey Epstein coverup,” Durbin wrote on X. “The FBI was told to ‘flag’ any file mentioning President Trump. Why? It’s time for some real answers.” I’m going to sit back and wait for the one penny to drop on this one. Someone – aside from TOM – knows what the “there” is there and my money goes on the fact they won’t be able to hold back forever. Like pouring Heinz ketchup……it’s worth the wait.

Slightly under the radar, Hegsloth has now upped the ante on ICE raids. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now allowing ICE to use U.S. military bases to detain undocumented immigrants as part of Donald Trump’s sweeping deportation efforts. 

In a brief letter signed Tuesday, Hegseth approved Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey “for temporary use by the Department of Homeland Security to house illegal aliens.”

Hegseth insisted that the policy would “not negatively affect military training, operations, readiness, or other military requirements, including National Guard and Reserve readiness.” 

I’m not sure you can it both ways. So there’s enough not going on at our bases that we can turn them into internment camps but no so little that we should shutter them to save money? Help me out here. And this seems to be walking the thinnest of lines between the military which may not assist in in-country legal matters and “providing support” to ICE. With more than a dozen people already dead this year in detention facilities, the opportunity for more death and inhumane treatment and illegal deportation will only be facilitated by this move.