Maureen O'Connell

How does the FBI go about guaranteeing that people who do reach out, that they actually remain anonymous?

I can't talk about any investigations, but I will say the following, which is that in July, the Department of Justice said that we had reviewed the files, the quote, Epstein files, and there was nothing in there that allowed us to prosecute anybody.

We then released over three and a half million pieces of paper, which the entire world can look at now and see if we got it wrong.

And so it's not performative, and I respectfully disagree with that statement.

We were ordered to do so by Congress and then by the President of the United States, and that's what we did.

And let me, you know, I said it on Friday, this Justice Department, the FBI, DHS, we have gone after more

sex traffickers, more child pornographers, more men who have done harm to children and young women than any administration in history.

And so we need to separate those two ideas, the fact that there's the Epstein files and whether there's anybody there that we can go after, and the work that we are doing every day, which is extraordinary, and we will continue to do that.

The behavior here is just awful.

There's no other word for it.

I do think that we have to distinguish between two separate, two different sets of things.

And I think one is

Epstein's relationships with the intelligence community, his relationships with the Department of Justice.

I think one of the most important of these messages that we saw in the most recent release is the fact that Epstein was paid $25 million by Arianna de Rothschild to settle a Department of Justice claim.

And then another $10 million went to his attorney and friend, Katherine Rumler, who was the... Rumler.

Yeah, that was the U.S.

The illegal Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s involving that the CIA oversaw.

You know, Rumler emailed Epstein to say that she got this, you know, the highest award from within the CIA.

That's a secret award, by the way.

And she told she felt comfortable telling Epstein about it.