If you recall back in 2016, FBI director James Comey broke with longstanding DoJ policy by releasing some stuff about a laptop belonging to Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin just weeks before the election. The rumor at the time was that Comey's hand was forced; that he was afraid FBI agents would go rogue and leak stories about the laptop if Comey didn't go public.
That same dynamic may be in effect here with the Epstein tRump connections. Stuff like the letter the WSJ has
could have been leaked by FBI agents who couldn't stomach the "there is no Epstein list" coverup. If so, look for more slow leaks.
A bit of context from Sen Dick Durbin:
“According to information my office received, the FBI was pressured to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division (IMD) … on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epstein-related records in order to produce more documents that could then be released on an arbitrarily short deadline,” Durbin wrote to Patel.
“This effort, which reportedly took place from March 14 through the end of March, was haphazardly supplemented by hundreds of FBI New York Field Office personnel, many of whom lacked the expertise to identify statutorily-protected information regarding child victims and child witnesses or properly handle FOIA requests,” the letter said.
“My office was told that these personnel were instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”
