U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi went on a media offensive on Feb. 26, touting her office's upcoming publication of the so-called "Epstein files" related to the case of the deceased child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, a financier who had elite contacts in business, politics and intelligence.

Although Bondi hyped the initial release the night before it was published as containing a plethora of (implied to be new) names and flight logs to Epstein's private Caribbean island where some of his contacts had illicit rendezvous with under-age girls, Bondi's release proved a total flop.

It consisted of previously published documents that were theatrically handed out to a handful of conservative influencers as if they would provide some new revelation.

In a letter written on Feb. 27 to newly confirmed F.B.I. Director Kash Patel, Bondi claimed to have been hoodwinked by the F.B.I.'s New York Field Office, and threatened to fire those found responsible for withholding files.

She wrote:

"Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers."

I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the F.B.I. that we had received the full set of documents. Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the F.B.I. Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein.

Despite my repeated requests, the F.B.I. never disclosed the existence of these files…"

A Truckload

Last Monday came the resignation of James Dennehy, head of the F.B.I. Field Office in New York where Bondi claimed that thousands of Epstein documents had been withheld from her. Dennehy's resignation letter didn't specify whether his being forced out of the job was due to a coverup of the existence of Epstein files, as the timing would suggest.

Bondi told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday that a "truckload" of thousands of Epstein-related documents had been delivered to her office on Feb. 28 from the Southern District of New York, where Epstein had been charged with sex trafficking minors in 2019, one month before his death.

Bondi said that F.B.I. Director Patel had assembled a team to comb through the documents.

"Friday at 8[am] a truckload of evidence arrived. It's now in possession of the F.B.I., Kash is going to get me – and himself really – a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld," she told Hannity.

Asked about redactions, Bondi said Epstein's victims would be protected while vowing that "America has the right to know… everything is going to come out."

At Hannity's prompting, however, Bondi said she might also redact for reasons of "national security," without elaborating.