James Dennehy (Credit: public domain)
Hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the FBI New York of withholding ‘thousands of pages’ of Jeffrey Epstein documents, social media users blamed assistant director in charge James Dennehy for the alleged block. On Thursday, the Department of Justice released ‘phase I’ of the files related to the convicted sex offender and financier. It included some of the infamous flight logs and entries from Epstein’s address book.
However, the complete ‘client list’ is not out yet. (MSN, 2/28/2025)
8 a.m. deadline for submitting all Epstein docs.
Why are the feds protecting Epstein in the first place?
Last night, Jesse Waters discloses who in the FBI is withholding documents.
His name is James Dennehy who ordered his staff to “dig in” after Trump won.
Fire him! pic.twitter.com/VbJXw9JPuB— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) February 28, 2025
Meet James E. Dennehy.
He is Assistant Director at the New York FBI field office.
He sent a resistance email to “dig in” after Trump won.
James is responsible for hiding the Epstein Files.
He should be in prison. pic.twitter.com/zWMTa2Kb7O
— C3 (@C_3C_3) February 28, 2025
James Dennehy, assistant director in charge of the New York FBI office, wrote in a memo to 1,200 agents and support personnel on Friday: “Today we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy.”
The personnel moves make good on a Trump campaign promise to clean house at the Justice Department. Soon after taking office, the president signed an executive order to take on the “weaponization of the federal government.” (Read more: CBS News, 2/4/2025)
FBI warns staff they are in a ‘battle’ as Trump purges agents who ‘did their jobs in accordance with the law’ and investigated Jan 6 riots (Read more: Daily Mail, 2/3/2025)
Top FBI Agent in New York Defiant Amid Agency Purge: ‘Time for Me to Dig In!’ (Read more: Mediaite, 2/3/2025)