It isn't just the Epstein Files™ that the Department Of Justice is withholding from the public. Despite claiming to be "the most transparent administration in history", the DOJ under Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI under new director Kash Patel have issued a response indicating they will fail to follow through on the release of evidence concerning murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich. According to Texas-based attorney Ty Clevenger, the FBI and DOJ will not be disclosing records in response to his lawsuit made following a FOIA request by the March 10th deadline they were due.
Since the inception of the Russiagate hysteria that aimed to pin the DNC leaks and seemingly every other failure of the Deep State brought to light on the Kremlin, Clevenger has been leading the charge on revealing the truth behind those leaks that irrevocably changed the course of American history due to their impact on the outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election. Clevenger's vigilance has focused on uncovering the connection behind the DNC leaks and the role they played in the murder of Seth Rich, whose death has been spuriously claimed to be the result of a botched robbery despite the deceased not having any valuable items on his person stolen from him. Since he was murdered, the claim that Rich was the source of the DNC has been made by the likes of Kim Dotcom, Seymour Hersh, and heavily implied by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
In the years Clevenger has represented clients who filed FOIA requests and taken other action against the DOJ and FBI to release evidence taken into their custody following Rich's murder, he has been met with delay after delay which has turned his effort into a Sisyphean task. Clevenger first made headway with his mission in September 2022, when a federal judge ruled that the FBI and DOJ release the evidence they had on the contents of Seth Rich's laptop to him within 14 days. In response to the order, the FBI filed and appeal that requested the records be sealed for 66 years in the interest of national security.
Although the request to keep the files from Seth Rich's laptop under seal for that long was denied, refusal to grant the FBI's appeal hasn't expedited the release of the evidence. Despite several successive order instructing the FBI to hand over the files, the bureau was able to achieve incremental extensions keeping the evidence from getting in the hands of Clevenger. On January 30th, 2025, Clevenger revealed that the FBI requested another 30-day extension from the February 7th deadline that was placed on them in August 2024 by Federal Judge Amos Mazzant. That extension moved the deadline to produce the files to Clevenger to March 10, 2025, drawing out his efforts to ascertain the evidence for over 8 years.
That Kafkaesque tale of perpetual extensions granted to the FBI may have finally reached its climax as the FBI has informed Clevenger that he will not be getting and records from Seth Rich's laptop after all. While the FBI intends to meet the March 19th deadline, it has informed Clevenger that it will only produce an index that gives a brief description of the evidence and an explanation of why it is being withheld. This means any files, metadeta, or other digital evidence will not be disclosed the FBI or DOJ.
1/4 @DOJ told me this afternoon that we will not be getting any Seth Rich records on March 10. The @FBI only intends to produce a "Vaughn index," which gives a brief description of what they are withholding and why. That means that the feds are not even willing to produce...
— Ty Clevenger (@Ty_Clevenger) March 3, 2025
Clevenger remains adamant that the refusal to honor the deadline will be overturned in court. However, any action taken by the courts to hold the FBI and DOJ's feet to the fire has proven to be fruitless in light of the infinite delays its been able to achieve to circumvent any semblance of transparency. In spite of that history, Clevenger remains optimistic that the arrival of AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel will be the impetus behind finally bringing the evidence of what was on Seth Rich's laptop to light.
That optimism may be better characterized as naivety. In the weeks that AG Pam Bondi has claimed she has been in possession of evidence on the criminal network of notorious pedophile and suspected spy Jeffrey Epstein, her office has done nothing to produce any meaningful evidence. Bondi has constantly moved the goalposts on the release of the Epstein Files™, from saying they'd be released in a matter of days to placing a deadline on files she claimed were being withheld by the SDNY division of the DOJ to saying the bureau had completely "misled" her on the evidence. Bondi's inability to produce any meaningful disclosures about Epstein has led to sharp criticism of whether she is capable of leading the DoJ or if she is just another cog in the machine that has kept the scope of Epstein's crimes from being exposed.
BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi claims she was misled into believing she had all the Jeffrey Epstein files.
— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) March 3, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel has similarly failed to live up to the hype he promised. Before being sworn in to lead the bureau, Patel claimed he would close its headquarters down on the first day of his tenure and make it "a museum to the Deep State" (spoiler alert: the Hoover building is still open). A whistleblower further undermined Patel's tough talk on reining the corrupt officials at the FBI in when it was reported employees at the bureau had been deleting files on Epstein.
AG Bondi issued a similar claim that officials at the SDNY Division of the DoJ were withholding valuable evidence on Epstein. Although Bondi claimed any insubordinate officials at either the DoJ or FBI would be fired for this corruption, no official action has been taken. After placing a deadline of 8 am on Friday, February 28th, on the SDNY to furnish the files it was withholding Bondi indicated that her offices received a truckload of files, slating them for a forthcoming disclosure that she claims for expose everything about Epstein. Despite indicating she was able to navigate attempts by the SDNY to subvert the release of evidence on Epstein, it is unclear whether or not Patel and Bondi have even identified the aforementioned officials they claim were deleting and withholding evidence.
Reports have circulated indicating that the director of the FBI's New York Field Office, James Dennehy, abruptly submitted his resignation on Monday. Speculation is that Dennehy was behind the withholding of files from Bondi's office and was forced to resign in response. In the event there is validity to that speculation, his forced resignation is a slap on the wrist that pales in comparison to the criminal charges he and anyone else complicit in that cover up should face instead.
The tone set by AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel with how they have handled the disclosure of the Epstein Files™ should leave a sour taste in the mouth of attorney Ty Clevenger as he continues to fight for the truth about who killed Seth Rich. The debacle surrounding the Epstein Files™ is an ominous portent that indicates Bondi and Patel's public-facing positions are little more than political posturing meant to appease their supporters. Should their supporters' demands be satiated by the narrative that Deep State subversion is what is keeping the DoJ from delivering on the transparency it has promised, efforts like Clevenger's working toward the release of a smoking gun on Seth Rich, Jeffrey Epstein, or anyone else will continue to languish in futility.
