Thank you so much for this explanation of the so-called ‘releases’ of the ‘files.’ I love reading your articles not only for their content, but for their format. You make it easy to read and comprehend the material simply by virtue of the layout, typeface, and overall presentation. I read and really over consume news, so sometimes I get almost bug-eyed. You are by far my number 1 Substack author/writer. Being a KC dude adds oodles to your cachet. Have a grand and Happy New Year my friend. Together we all will link arms to fight the Trump regime and begin the restoration of our democracy! 🥰🥳❤️👍
Thank you, Elizabeth...truly. That means more than you probably realize.
What you’re describing is exactly why I’m so intentional about format and structure. When you’re already over-consuming news...the last thing you need is more cognitive friction.
If the layout lowers the load and lets the pattern come through without making you bug-eyed...then the piece is doing its job.
And...I appreciate the trust. Being someone’s “number 1” is not something I take lightly...believe me, especially from a reader who clearly thinks hard and reads widely. That’s the audience I write for.
As for being a KC dude… I’ll take that with pride. There’s something grounding about coming from a place that values plain talk...skepticism of power..and showing up for your people when it matters.
The work ahead isn’t about outrage...it’s about clarity...stamina...and refusing to be infantilized. Linking arms starts with understanding how the machinery actually works...so we know where to apply pressure and where not to waste it.
Wishing you a genuinely restorative New Year...my friend. We keep going ...eyes open... backs straight...and no pablum.
Once again right on Jack. It is interesting to note that SO MANY people in power know so much about different “sections” of the Epstein files. Inevitably in history someone blows the whistle (thinking Nixon). This may not happen right away (pressure not strong enough) but I believe it will. With a dem controlled congress (or just the house) and victim’s testimony under oath (I still believe they have much info not made public) the screws will turn. Dems need only one thing to dig in the large hook and the whole thing will fall apart. Patience now is a virtue, pressure and daily publicity must keep this on the front burner!
Tom, you’re thinking about this exactly the right way...and you’re also correcting for the one mistake people usually make: assuming revelations happen because truth wants to be free. They don’t. They happen because PRESSURE finally exceeds risk.
History is very clear on this. Nixon didn’t fall because someone suddenly grew a conscience. He fell because the cost of staying silent...finally became higher than the cost of speaking.
Whistleblowers emerge when protection structures crack...not before.
You’re also right about the “sections” point. That’s crucial. No one person has to know everything. In fact...systems are designed so they don’t. But the flip side is...lots of people know enough. Enough to be dangerous once conditions change.
Victim testimony under oath is especially powerful...because it does two things at once:
it forces specificity (dates, locations, names, corroboration)
and it collapses plausible deniability...for anyone who touched the case and chose not to act.
That’s when routine decisions become explainable...or not.
And you nailed the political reality...it doesn’t take everything. It takes one well-placed hook. One fact that can’t be proceduralized away. One moment where delay...redaction.. or “scope” stops working as cover.
Patience isn’t passivity here. It’s strategic endurance. Keeping the issue alive...visible...and structurally framed...so when that pressure threshold is crossed...the release isn’t chaos...it’s consequence.
Daily attention matters. Not outrage...but insistence. Staying on the front burner changes the risk calculus inside institutions. That’s how screws actually turn.
You’re right to think this way. This is how accountability really arrives!
I'm so sick of being taken for a fool. I don't eat pablum. 'They', think we are so fucking stupid...and we, somehow, seem to reinforce that belief. On a global scale.
What gets mislabeled as cynicism...is usually pattern recognition...seeing the gap between what institutions say...and what their behavior actually shows.
A lot of public discourse is pablum by design.
It’s meant to soothe...not explain.
To manage fatigue...not invite real understanding.
And yes...systems often assume people won’t look closely.
Not because people are stupid...but because exhaustion works.
Complexity slows scrutiny. Partial transparency...creates the feeling of knowledge without accountability.
Where I’d push back slightly is the idea that “we reinforce it.”
Most people aren’t consenting...they’re just tired.
The fact that you’re angry means you haven’t accepted the children’s version of reality.
You’re still demanding adult explanations.
That’s exactly what threatens systems built on managed awareness! Keep doing what you're doing.
And so many people are truly exhausted by demands of work, family and trying to stay upright when they must. Even if they would like to know and understand they have no bandwidth left. I’ve been struck with this during the holidays, as I see so many people working too hard for too little. As much as I like knowing these patterns, I also see the way this regime is working to exhaust regular people, so they will give up and not fight back. It makes me sad. I had a sad Christmas, for many reasons, which makes me more aware of those with less of everything than I. 👹
Reading Jack’s piece hit hard. It’s not just about Epstein — it’s about the systems that let the powerful evade accountability while the vulnerable are silenced. The clarity and courage in connecting the dots makes you see the story, and the harm, in a way headlines never do. This is essential reading.
I only have the one question, which was, while I dispute none of your assertions, who the hell was smart enough to be able to manage this as efficiently and noxiously across what- four administrations? What is apparently coming out is a gargantuan conspiracy so ludicrous I find it hard to fathom, yet compared to what’s really happening in plain sight it’s almost believably quaint. (Look at the damage Elmo did in just four months)
If this is as huge as we are beginning to fathom, it would take and probably did take a dedicated team to manage it over 30 years. Of whom, on what side, funded by.. beats me.
What really blows my mind is "because no one was incentivized to be the outlier." What the HELL! This is about prolific serial physical and sex abuse of hundreds, if not thousands, of female children. How can NO ONE in an authoritative position with knowledge of this not be compelled to put a stop to the abuse?!
Zev Shalev has investigated Epstein for years using publicly available information. His The Greatest Heist connects some dots that are very enlightening. Epstein and the files are about WAY more than the trafficking operations. If it all ever comes out the fallout will be worldwide.
Also check out Ellie Leonard’s reviews of the files and emails. She also does a great job and is collaborating with Zev who I follow as well… they are both great.
So, is the bottom line that we will not see justice for the victims? Are we to keep informed by the crumbs so eagerly spun and sprinkled at our tired feet to think the info dump is worthy of our heart felt emotions to get to the promised land of information that will make everything better? I think I saw the real truth in your reporting today. I am a sucker for wanting to believe that all the truth sstera really want to say the truth...NO! They want our tired souls to stay for another round of nothing said. I am sick to my stomach to think I bought into this pure bull shit. I have lots of important things to do, so with tears in my eyes and hurt in my heart, I just give it up. I am a disappointed patriot who loves democracy and law abiding officials and honesty in journalism. I am finding it hard to find any of these in my world. God help us all, because we have forgotten to help our fellow man.
Brenda, I’m really glad you said this out loud. And before anything else, let me say this clearly:
What you’re feeling is grief...not gullibility.
Grief for the idea that the system would ultimately correct itself if you stayed informed, patient, and decent.
That belief wasn’t stupid.
It was civic faith.
Here’s the honest bottom line...without sugarcoating and without surrender:
Justice for the victims..as we normally understand it...was never the system’s primary objective once the case crossed a certain threshold of power and risk.
That’s the hard truth you saw today. Not because truth doesn’t exist...but because truth and justice are not the same thing inside institutions.
But here’s where I want to gently stop you from stepping one inch too far into despair.
The crumbs you’re describing...the document drops...the partial releases...the choreographed “transparency”...they are not meant to lead us to the promised land.
You’re right about that. They are meant to manage emotion and exhaust attention.
What they are not meant to do...is erase memory.
And THAT...matters more than it sounds.
Justice doesn’t always arrive as a courtroom verdict. Sometimes it arrives as:
*records that can no longer be buried
*patterns that can no longer be denied
*institutional myths that stop working
*future crimes that don’t get proceduralized...because the last one taught people how the trick works
That doesn’t heal the victims fully. Nothing can. And pretending otherwise is cruel.
But giving up entirely...turning away in disgust...would mean the containment strategy worked perfectly. It would mean they didn’t just deny justice...they also took your belief in democratic accountability with them.
You’re not wrong to be sickened.
You’re not wrong to feel betrayed.
And...you’re not wrong to step back from the noise.
Just don’t confuse stepping back from illusion...with stepping away from meaning.
You still love democracy.
You still value law...honesty...and truth.
Those things haven’t disappeared...they’ve just become rarer...quieter...and harder to find.
The work now isn’t to chase every crumb.
It’s to remember what you now see...share it calmly when it matters...and refuse to be infantilized again.
That isn’t nothing.
It’s how societies keep their spine...when institutions lose theirs.
You’re not alone in this feeling. And...you’re not weak for having it.
I worked as lead paralegal for a firm specializing in complex litigation and antitrust in the 1990s.
The good folks at Bonneville Pacific Corporation (which rose again with new leaders
from the ashes after Chapter 11) were crooked as can be. Their portfolios and financial filings included towns, cities, completed electrical projects, planned hydroelectric plants, and local elected officials who purportedly signed off on them. Many of those did not exist.
Our client had invested huge amounts of money, in the range of $200 million. They were a major electricity provider in California. They were being sued by the Bankruptcy receiver on behalf of the small investors because our client didn't do due diligence but relied almost totally on the financials audited by Deloitte.
We only were able to catalog and summarize about 65,000 from close to a million documents. It boggles my old retired brain to think what had to be waded through on Epstein. These were in banker's boxes, over 1500 of them. Now it would take just a few memory discs.
Jack, do you know if any of the Epstein docs were Bates Numbered? That was our saving grace. We could easily check to see if any docs "disappeared" from one actor but still existed in records of another. (Like the Epstein Estate).
Sue...that’s not a tangent at all. That’s experience talking. And it sharpens the question in exactly the right place.
Short answer: there is no publicly available...unified Bates numbering system across the Epstein materials the way you’d expect in a clean...adversarial...document-intensive case like the one you worked.
Here's a more precise answer:
Criminal case materials (DOJ/FBI/SDNY) that have been released publicly are not released with consistent Bates ranges visible to the public. What we see are excerpts...inventories...summaries...and redacted productions...often stripped of the very metadata that would allow external continuity checks.
Civil litigation materials (including Maxwell-related productions and some Epstein estate–adjacent filings) DO include Bates numbers internally...but they are fragmented by proceeding. Different cases...different custodians...different numbering systems. No master index.
FOIA releases almost never preserve Bates continuity in a way that allows you to do what you did in antitrust...cross-compare custodians to detect disappearance. Pages are frequently re-paginated...excerpted...or released as stand-alone PDFs.
And...that’s not an accident.
What you’re describing, Sue...using Bates numbers to see when a document “vanishes” from one actor...but survives in another’s files...is exactly the kind of structural accountability tool that prevents quiet containment.
Which is why...in cases treated as liability problems rather than truth-seeking exercises... that continuity is the first thing to break.
You’re also absolutely right about scale. People wildly underestimate...just what it means to process this volume of material.
A million documents doesn’t just hide truth through size...it hides it through triage decisions:
*what gets coded as relevant
*what gets summarized instead of read
*what never gets elevated out of the box
And when evidence is abundant...the real power lies not in destruction...but in classification and prioritization.
Your instinct is dead on: if there were a clean...cross-custodial Bates system spanning DOJ...SDNY...FBI...and estate materials...we’d already be having a very different public conversation. The fact that we aren’t tells you a lot.
Thank you for sharing that background. It’s not just validating...it’s clarifying.
I do not trust a single thing that comes out of the DOJ or WH. They are awash in lies, cover ups, deception, manipulation, high crimes and misdemeanors. The drip, drip, drop of information, posting, unposting, removing photos is childish distraction. It is what is not there, the why was this photo/info redacted? Where is the corroborating evidence? Where are the notes and FD 302s? We would have no information were it not for the Epstein family release of photos and communication. We certainly would have a whole lot more information if T2.0 hadn’t fired Maureen Comey. They know exactly who, what, when, where, how and why. Yet pretend to not see the truth, This regime are all worthy of impeachment, removal, and criminal prosecution. I have not, am not, and will never be fooled by the lies of the Battleship Trump.
On a happy note, I learned that the Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled by the conductor after the ordered name change by DonOld. He has been concert master for 25+ years, but refused. He has some grit. I wish him much success. Indiana was named State of the Year by Washington Post for standing up against Braun and DonOld in the scam to try electioneer the 2026 election. Proud of my ‘red hats’ who chose some integrity over loyalty.
Thank you so much for this explanation of the so-called ‘releases’ of the ‘files.’ I love reading your articles not only for their content, but for their format. You make it easy to read and comprehend the material simply by virtue of the layout, typeface, and overall presentation. I read and really over consume news, so sometimes I get almost bug-eyed. You are by far my number 1 Substack author/writer. Being a KC dude adds oodles to your cachet. Have a grand and Happy New Year my friend. Together we all will link arms to fight the Trump regime and begin the restoration of our democracy! 🥰🥳❤️👍
Thank you, Elizabeth...truly. That means more than you probably realize.
What you’re describing is exactly why I’m so intentional about format and structure. When you’re already over-consuming news...the last thing you need is more cognitive friction.
If the layout lowers the load and lets the pattern come through without making you bug-eyed...then the piece is doing its job.
And...I appreciate the trust. Being someone’s “number 1” is not something I take lightly...believe me, especially from a reader who clearly thinks hard and reads widely. That’s the audience I write for.
As for being a KC dude… I’ll take that with pride. There’s something grounding about coming from a place that values plain talk...skepticism of power..and showing up for your people when it matters.
The work ahead isn’t about outrage...it’s about clarity...stamina...and refusing to be infantilized. Linking arms starts with understanding how the machinery actually works...so we know where to apply pressure and where not to waste it.
Wishing you a genuinely restorative New Year...my friend. We keep going ...eyes open... backs straight...and no pablum.
-Jack
You are #1, Zev Shalev from Naratif is my #2, Dean Blundell & Joyce Strong are my #3’s (tied). 👍❤️🥳
Add Ellie Leonard who is painstakingly reviewing and documenting the emails and files. She collaborates with Zev and Dean also.
Yes, Ellie would be in a three way tie for 3rd! ❤️👍🥰
Oh, my goodness!! This explains why this “process” has all seemed backward to me.
It kinda WAS.
Yes. By design, Rae....by design.
-Jack
I’m feeling a bit better about my brain right now, thanks to your explanation. 😉
Once again right on Jack. It is interesting to note that SO MANY people in power know so much about different “sections” of the Epstein files. Inevitably in history someone blows the whistle (thinking Nixon). This may not happen right away (pressure not strong enough) but I believe it will. With a dem controlled congress (or just the house) and victim’s testimony under oath (I still believe they have much info not made public) the screws will turn. Dems need only one thing to dig in the large hook and the whole thing will fall apart. Patience now is a virtue, pressure and daily publicity must keep this on the front burner!
Tom, you’re thinking about this exactly the right way...and you’re also correcting for the one mistake people usually make: assuming revelations happen because truth wants to be free. They don’t. They happen because PRESSURE finally exceeds risk.
History is very clear on this. Nixon didn’t fall because someone suddenly grew a conscience. He fell because the cost of staying silent...finally became higher than the cost of speaking.
Whistleblowers emerge when protection structures crack...not before.
You’re also right about the “sections” point. That’s crucial. No one person has to know everything. In fact...systems are designed so they don’t. But the flip side is...lots of people know enough. Enough to be dangerous once conditions change.
Victim testimony under oath is especially powerful...because it does two things at once:
it forces specificity (dates, locations, names, corroboration)
and it collapses plausible deniability...for anyone who touched the case and chose not to act.
That’s when routine decisions become explainable...or not.
And you nailed the political reality...it doesn’t take everything. It takes one well-placed hook. One fact that can’t be proceduralized away. One moment where delay...redaction.. or “scope” stops working as cover.
Patience isn’t passivity here. It’s strategic endurance. Keeping the issue alive...visible...and structurally framed...so when that pressure threshold is crossed...the release isn’t chaos...it’s consequence.
Daily attention matters. Not outrage...but insistence. Staying on the front burner changes the risk calculus inside institutions. That’s how screws actually turn.
You’re right to think this way. This is how accountability really arrives!
-Jack
I'm so sick of being taken for a fool. I don't eat pablum. 'They', think we are so fucking stupid...and we, somehow, seem to reinforce that belief. On a global scale.
You’re not wrong, Coco.
And you’re not crazy for feeling this way.
What gets mislabeled as cynicism...is usually pattern recognition...seeing the gap between what institutions say...and what their behavior actually shows.
A lot of public discourse is pablum by design.
It’s meant to soothe...not explain.
To manage fatigue...not invite real understanding.
And yes...systems often assume people won’t look closely.
Not because people are stupid...but because exhaustion works.
Complexity slows scrutiny. Partial transparency...creates the feeling of knowledge without accountability.
Where I’d push back slightly is the idea that “we reinforce it.”
Most people aren’t consenting...they’re just tired.
The fact that you’re angry means you haven’t accepted the children’s version of reality.
You’re still demanding adult explanations.
That’s exactly what threatens systems built on managed awareness! Keep doing what you're doing.
-Jack
And so many people are truly exhausted by demands of work, family and trying to stay upright when they must. Even if they would like to know and understand they have no bandwidth left. I’ve been struck with this during the holidays, as I see so many people working too hard for too little. As much as I like knowing these patterns, I also see the way this regime is working to exhaust regular people, so they will give up and not fight back. It makes me sad. I had a sad Christmas, for many reasons, which makes me more aware of those with less of everything than I. 👹
Reading Jack’s piece hit hard. It’s not just about Epstein — it’s about the systems that let the powerful evade accountability while the vulnerable are silenced. The clarity and courage in connecting the dots makes you see the story, and the harm, in a way headlines never do. This is essential reading.
I only have the one question, which was, while I dispute none of your assertions, who the hell was smart enough to be able to manage this as efficiently and noxiously across what- four administrations? What is apparently coming out is a gargantuan conspiracy so ludicrous I find it hard to fathom, yet compared to what’s really happening in plain sight it’s almost believably quaint. (Look at the damage Elmo did in just four months)
If this is as huge as we are beginning to fathom, it would take and probably did take a dedicated team to manage it over 30 years. Of whom, on what side, funded by.. beats me.
That’s the right question, Randy...and the answer is less cinematic than people expect... which is why it’s so hard to see.
It didn’t require a single mastermind...a shadow cabal,,,or a 30-year conspiracy meeting in a bunker.
What it required was institutional continuity.
Large systems don’t run on genius. They run on:
*career risk management
*precedent
*legal insulation
*and incentives that reward not being the person who blows things open
Across administrations, the people who actually control flow aren’t presidents. They’re:
*senior DOJ managers
*career prosecutors
*agency counsel
*classification authorities
*risk committees
*and the lawyers who advise all of them
Those roles persist while politics rotates.
No one had to “manage Epstein” end to end.
Each node only had to do one small...defensible thing:
*narrow scope
*delay follow-up
*treat names as non-actionable
*classify evidence as case-bounded
*defer to jurisdiction
*invoke sensitivity
Every step looked reasonable in isolation.
Together...they produced containment.
That’s why it survived four administrations.
Not because everyone agreed...but because no one was incentivized to be the outlier.
As for funding or “sides”: it’s not left/right or foreign/domestic.
It’s system vs. disruption.
What Elon did in four months looks chaotic because it violated institutional norms loudly.
This was the opposite, slow...legal...boring...procedural...and therefore far more durable.
That’s the uncomfortable truth.
What you’re reacting to isn’t a conspiracy so much as a machine...that doesn’t need belief to function...only compliance...caution...and time.
And that kind of power is hiding in plain sight...everywhere.
-Jack
What really blows my mind is "because no one was incentivized to be the outlier." What the HELL! This is about prolific serial physical and sex abuse of hundreds, if not thousands, of female children. How can NO ONE in an authoritative position with knowledge of this not be compelled to put a stop to the abuse?!
Zev Shalev has investigated Epstein for years using publicly available information. His The Greatest Heist connects some dots that are very enlightening. Epstein and the files are about WAY more than the trafficking operations. If it all ever comes out the fallout will be worldwide.
Also check out Ellie Leonard’s reviews of the files and emails. She also does a great job and is collaborating with Zev who I follow as well… they are both great.
So, is the bottom line that we will not see justice for the victims? Are we to keep informed by the crumbs so eagerly spun and sprinkled at our tired feet to think the info dump is worthy of our heart felt emotions to get to the promised land of information that will make everything better? I think I saw the real truth in your reporting today. I am a sucker for wanting to believe that all the truth sstera really want to say the truth...NO! They want our tired souls to stay for another round of nothing said. I am sick to my stomach to think I bought into this pure bull shit. I have lots of important things to do, so with tears in my eyes and hurt in my heart, I just give it up. I am a disappointed patriot who loves democracy and law abiding officials and honesty in journalism. I am finding it hard to find any of these in my world. God help us all, because we have forgotten to help our fellow man.
Brenda, I’m really glad you said this out loud. And before anything else, let me say this clearly:
What you’re feeling is grief...not gullibility.
Grief for the idea that the system would ultimately correct itself if you stayed informed, patient, and decent.
That belief wasn’t stupid.
It was civic faith.
Here’s the honest bottom line...without sugarcoating and without surrender:
Justice for the victims..as we normally understand it...was never the system’s primary objective once the case crossed a certain threshold of power and risk.
That’s the hard truth you saw today. Not because truth doesn’t exist...but because truth and justice are not the same thing inside institutions.
But here’s where I want to gently stop you from stepping one inch too far into despair.
The crumbs you’re describing...the document drops...the partial releases...the choreographed “transparency”...they are not meant to lead us to the promised land.
You’re right about that. They are meant to manage emotion and exhaust attention.
What they are not meant to do...is erase memory.
And THAT...matters more than it sounds.
Justice doesn’t always arrive as a courtroom verdict. Sometimes it arrives as:
*records that can no longer be buried
*patterns that can no longer be denied
*institutional myths that stop working
*future crimes that don’t get proceduralized...because the last one taught people how the trick works
That doesn’t heal the victims fully. Nothing can. And pretending otherwise is cruel.
But giving up entirely...turning away in disgust...would mean the containment strategy worked perfectly. It would mean they didn’t just deny justice...they also took your belief in democratic accountability with them.
You’re not wrong to be sickened.
You’re not wrong to feel betrayed.
And...you’re not wrong to step back from the noise.
Just don’t confuse stepping back from illusion...with stepping away from meaning.
You still love democracy.
You still value law...honesty...and truth.
Those things haven’t disappeared...they’ve just become rarer...quieter...and harder to find.
The work now isn’t to chase every crumb.
It’s to remember what you now see...share it calmly when it matters...and refuse to be infantilized again.
That isn’t nothing.
It’s how societies keep their spine...when institutions lose theirs.
You’re not alone in this feeling. And...you’re not weak for having it.
You’re someone who cared enough...to be wounded.
#HoldFast...not to false hope...but to clarity!
-Jack
Managed awareness. Planned . It continues in this administration. Congress needs to ask the right questions and stay on it.
I like that plan, Jane. I like it a LOT.
-Jack
I worked as lead paralegal for a firm specializing in complex litigation and antitrust in the 1990s.
The good folks at Bonneville Pacific Corporation (which rose again with new leaders
from the ashes after Chapter 11) were crooked as can be. Their portfolios and financial filings included towns, cities, completed electrical projects, planned hydroelectric plants, and local elected officials who purportedly signed off on them. Many of those did not exist.
Our client had invested huge amounts of money, in the range of $200 million. They were a major electricity provider in California. They were being sued by the Bankruptcy receiver on behalf of the small investors because our client didn't do due diligence but relied almost totally on the financials audited by Deloitte.
We only were able to catalog and summarize about 65,000 from close to a million documents. It boggles my old retired brain to think what had to be waded through on Epstein. These were in banker's boxes, over 1500 of them. Now it would take just a few memory discs.
Jack, do you know if any of the Epstein docs were Bates Numbered? That was our saving grace. We could easily check to see if any docs "disappeared" from one actor but still existed in records of another. (Like the Epstein Estate).
Sorry for my tangent.
#HoldFast
Sue
Sue...that’s not a tangent at all. That’s experience talking. And it sharpens the question in exactly the right place.
Short answer: there is no publicly available...unified Bates numbering system across the Epstein materials the way you’d expect in a clean...adversarial...document-intensive case like the one you worked.
Here's a more precise answer:
Criminal case materials (DOJ/FBI/SDNY) that have been released publicly are not released with consistent Bates ranges visible to the public. What we see are excerpts...inventories...summaries...and redacted productions...often stripped of the very metadata that would allow external continuity checks.
Civil litigation materials (including Maxwell-related productions and some Epstein estate–adjacent filings) DO include Bates numbers internally...but they are fragmented by proceeding. Different cases...different custodians...different numbering systems. No master index.
FOIA releases almost never preserve Bates continuity in a way that allows you to do what you did in antitrust...cross-compare custodians to detect disappearance. Pages are frequently re-paginated...excerpted...or released as stand-alone PDFs.
And...that’s not an accident.
What you’re describing, Sue...using Bates numbers to see when a document “vanishes” from one actor...but survives in another’s files...is exactly the kind of structural accountability tool that prevents quiet containment.
Which is why...in cases treated as liability problems rather than truth-seeking exercises... that continuity is the first thing to break.
You’re also absolutely right about scale. People wildly underestimate...just what it means to process this volume of material.
A million documents doesn’t just hide truth through size...it hides it through triage decisions:
*what gets coded as relevant
*what gets summarized instead of read
*what never gets elevated out of the box
And when evidence is abundant...the real power lies not in destruction...but in classification and prioritization.
Your instinct is dead on: if there were a clean...cross-custodial Bates system spanning DOJ...SDNY...FBI...and estate materials...we’d already be having a very different public conversation. The fact that we aren’t tells you a lot.
Thank you for sharing that background. It’s not just validating...it’s clarifying.
And #HoldFast...right back at you!
-Jack
And they laugh at conspiracy theorists.
Makes sense finally
And sometimes, Mary...having more clarity on a matter...is just what we needed to be able to keep going.
-Jack
I do not trust a single thing that comes out of the DOJ or WH. They are awash in lies, cover ups, deception, manipulation, high crimes and misdemeanors. The drip, drip, drop of information, posting, unposting, removing photos is childish distraction. It is what is not there, the why was this photo/info redacted? Where is the corroborating evidence? Where are the notes and FD 302s? We would have no information were it not for the Epstein family release of photos and communication. We certainly would have a whole lot more information if T2.0 hadn’t fired Maureen Comey. They know exactly who, what, when, where, how and why. Yet pretend to not see the truth, This regime are all worthy of impeachment, removal, and criminal prosecution. I have not, am not, and will never be fooled by the lies of the Battleship Trump.
On a happy note, I learned that the Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center was canceled by the conductor after the ordered name change by DonOld. He has been concert master for 25+ years, but refused. He has some grit. I wish him much success. Indiana was named State of the Year by Washington Post for standing up against Braun and DonOld in the scam to try electioneer the 2026 election. Proud of my ‘red hats’ who chose some integrity over loyalty.
Does the Epstein records show alcohol or drug abuse patterns.
John...great question. Here's the boring short answer truth: not in any systematic... evidentiary way that would support a pattern analysis.
-Jack
Excellent breakdown here, Jack, good points All, and will reStack ASAP 🙏
Thank you, Karen. I appreciate the reStack!
-Jack
What a wormhole of deception.
I feel heard. Thank you for your kindred spirit. There's so much work to do. Your writings buoy me. Keep doin' you!