Video of the day -- judgment is coming

Normally I wouldn't post a video forty minutes long, but in this case, you only need to watch the first sixteen minutes -- that's where all the real meat of this one is.  Even that's longer than I usually prefer for a video, but not in this case.  I was mesmerized, and I think you will be too.  To summarize:

1)  The FBI has had more than a thousand employees reviewing the Epstein files (which of course include a lot of video and photographs in addition to "files" in the more literal sense).  Meidas Touch journalist Allison Gill put out an invitation for persons working on the project to contact her, confidentially and anonymously, and many have done so.

2)  Based on what these agents have told Gill, the material in these files is far more shocking and disturbing than the public has been led to believe so far.  Even agents presumably hardened by long experience dealing with repulsive crimes were upset and traumatized by viewing some of it.

3)  The management of the project by Kash Patel and Pam Bondi has been stunningly incompetent.  Instructions were changed constantly.  All those thousand-plus employees, many of them not properly trained to handle sensitive material, had essentially unrestricted access to the entire corpus of material in the Epstein files.

To me, the third point is of particular interest.  Some observers have expressed concern that Patel and Bondi might be scrubbing the files of any material that incriminates Trump or other top Republicans, but so many people have seen so much of the information that it would be impossible to get away with that.  It's even possible, in such a chaotic and uncontrolled project, that some agents have been able to make copies of information they think might be at risk of being hidden or destroyed.

Now that the shutdown is ending, the House will have to hold a session to vote on the Senate's funding bill -- and that means Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in and provide the 218th signature on Massie's discharge petition.  That will force a vote of the House on requiring the Justice Department to release the Epstein files publicly (with due care to protect the privacy of the victims).  And as Gill confirms above, many Republicans are prepared to vote along with the Democrats to do so -- congresscritters have their own contacts within the FBI, and they too are aware of how bad the material in the files really is.

The coverage of the Epstein issue has tended to focus on the partisan political angle, but in reality, the magnitude of this atrocity is such that all the stuff about Trump is just a side issue.  The Justice Department has already estimated that there were more than a thousand victims, which means Epstein's wealthy and powerful "clients" who abused them must number in the hundreds at least.  This is the biggest and most horrifying criminal conspiracy in all of American history.  As I said in July, there is no higher priority than seeing justice done here, even though it will probably cut down hundreds of the biggest names in politics, business, and the film industry.

These filthy child-abusing perverts and their toadies and enablers have managed to keep the evidence hidden and escape justice for years.  But now the dam is breaking.  Judgment is coming.  May it be as harsh and merciless as they deserve.

Update (Wednesday 2:20 PM Pacific time):  Grijalva has been sworn in and has signed the discharge petition.  Now that it has reached 218 signatures, it is "locked" and no signature can be withdrawn.  This means that the House must vote -- probably in early December -- on demanding the release of the Epstein files.  After that, the act would then also need to pass the Senate, and Trump could conceivably veto it -- but based on reports that over a hundred Republicans in Congress support the move, it's quite plausible that enough votes are there to override a veto.  They know that this stuff will eventually come out one way or another.  Not many will want to take a high-profile stand in favor of shielding child molesters from justice.