November 19, 2025 4:55 PM
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At a press availability today, Attorney General Pamela Bondi said “new information” — and not President Trump’s demand that the Justice Department investigate prominent Democrats — is the reason why she assigned the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to pursue the Epstein investigation, despite the fact that just four months ago, DOJ and the FBI conducted an exhaustive review and said there was no basis for any additional charges or continuing investigation.
I wrote about the Justice Department’s remarkable about-face earlier this week.
When AG Bondi made her remarks today, she was flanked by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, who had collaborated back in July on the joint DOJ/FBI memo that explained why there was no point in pursuing further investigation of the Epstein matter. As they put it at the time:
This systematic review revealed no incriminating “client list.” There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
The memo elaborated that the “systematic review” scrutinized “more than 300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence” and
include[d] a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors, and over ten thousand downloaded videos and images of illegal child sex abuse material and other pornography.
To leave no stone unturned, the DOJ and FBI deployed “teams of agents, analysts, attorneys, and privacy and civil liberties experts.”
Bondi did not explain what the “new information” was that suddenly justified reopening the probe after all that work and expenditure of resources.
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