I have a third option—the Epstein files have been used to blackmail and control many foreign leaders.
If they are made public we lose control over those foreign leaders (and some of them might get executed in their own countries as well).
The “honeypot” might have caught them when they were just generals or up and coming politicians—but now they are in positions of real power and authority.
I have a 4th option. Epstein was a high value asset but his sexual deviance eventually got so bad they had to arrest him.
“I have a third option—the Epstein files have been used to blackmail and control many foreign leaders.”
If that were true, no way they would be on Bondi’s desk.
(have a third option—the Epstein files have been used to blackmail and control many foreign leaders.)
That was basically his second option.
(and some of them might get executed in their own countries as well).
Good! There’s no need for world leaders who practice degeneracy.
“I have a third option—the Epstein files have been used to blackmail and control many foreign leaders.”
You are spot on, being release would cause more damage then it is worth.
Not ruling out your theory by any means, but I have a different one. Bondi and Patel simply cannot get either the FBI or the CIA to give up the information. Too many people within the organizations these administration officials control simply refuse to do what they are told to do for a variety of reasons mostly boiling down to they hate the administration and are determined to thwart them. There are simply too many people to fire and they know too much and are likely good at their jobs and needed.