The contradictions are obvious. Why isn’t anyone connecting the dots?
A journalist named Judd Legum at Popular Information published something this week that confirms what I’ve been tracking from my operations center since February. The Epstein files delay is real. The DOJ has released barely one percent of the documents. And the excuses don’t add up.
Legum documents the timeline. In July, the DOJ announced its review was “exhaustive” and complete. They said no further disclosure was “appropriate or warranted.” Then Congress passes a law requiring release within 30 days. Suddenly there’s not enough time. Suddenly there are two million documents no one mentioned before.
The mainstream reporter sees the contradiction. He just doesn’t understand what it means.
Someone Doesn’t Want These Files Released
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required full disclosure by December 19th. Attorney General Bondi missed it. Her letter to the court says 400 lawyers are now working on the review. But wait—didn’t they already complete an “exhaustive review” in July? Which is it?
Legum thinks this is about bureaucratic incompetence. I’ve been investigating these patterns long enough to recognize something else. You don’t go from “review complete” to “two million new documents” unless someone buried those files on purpose. And you don’t miss a congressionally mandated deadline unless someone wants you to miss it.
The question is who.
The Epstein Files Delay Points To Embedded Actors
Legum reports that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed DOJ lawyers worked “around the clock through the holidays.” He reports that the number of unreviewed documents doubled in a single week—from one million to two million. He reports that Representatives Massie and Khanna are pursuing inherent contempt charges against Bondi.
All of this is accurate. I verified it independently through my own channels. But Legum stops at the surface. He doesn’t ask who deposited those extra million documents into the system. He doesn’t ask who declared the review “complete” in July knowing full well it wasn’t. He doesn’t ask why the very people demanding transparency are now being made to look incompetent.
My sources—and I have sources Legum doesn’t have access to—suggest the files were deliberately fragmented across multiple databases. Someone with system access is playing a shell game. Every time the review team gets close, another cache “materializes.”
Follow The Timeline
February 2025: First phase released. March: Bondi says more coming “as fast as we can.” July: Review declared complete, no further releases “warranted.” November: Congress passes transparency law. December: Deadline missed. January: Two million documents suddenly exist.
Legum presents this timeline as evidence of contradiction. He’s right that it’s a contradiction. He’s wrong about the source. This isn’t incompetence. This is interference. The question is whether it’s coming from career holdovers who’ve protected these files for decades, or from people with names in those files who have access they shouldn’t have.
I have my theories. I’m not ready to publish them. But I’m closer than Legum is, and I don’t have to worry about advertisers.
The Sledge Report has 847 subscribers. That’s 847 people who will hear what the mainstream won’t print. The Epstein files delay isn’t a story about deadlines. It’s a story about protection. And someone at Justice knows exactly what they’re protecting.
I’ll be monitoring.
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