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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeather Cox Richardson Article Raises Extremely Unsettling Questions.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-2026In an article, Heather Cox Richardson writes:
Back on February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton, and Cara Tabachnick of CBS News reported on a newly uncovered document in the Epstein files showing that beginning in December 2010 under the Obama administration, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was running an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and fourteen other people for drug trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering.
The document showed the investigation, called Chain Reaction, was still underway in 2015. But the investigation disappeared, although the document suggested that it was a significant investigation and that the government was on the verge of indictments.
As soon as the story broke, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said: It appears Epstein was involved in criminal activity that went way beyond pedophilia and sex trafficking, which makes it even more outrageous that [Attorney General] Pam Bondi is sitting on several million unreleased files.
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My question:
Obviously people in the Obama admin HAD TO KNOW about this. Just at what time did the investigation disappear??? We know Trump takes office 2016 - so of course maybe they deep sixed it as Wyden suggests in paragraphs 6 and 7 of Heather's article.
HOWEVER, Biden was VP under Obama AND one would reasonably think this disappeared investigation was going to be a hot topic to pick up for the Biden DOJ - especially after the attempted coup orchestrated by Donald Vonshitinpants. Why are we only hearing about this now? What did Merrick Garland know about this and when did he know? I feel trickling down my back and I know it ain't rain.
Walleye
(44,626 posts)harumph
(3,235 posts)malaise
(295,591 posts)What a coverup
I am coming to the conclusion that more than a few of us were wrong about Garland.
FakeNoose
(41,379 posts)Also Eric Holder was the Attorney General under Obama, followed by Loretta Lynch and Sally Yates in 2015.
When Chump 1.0 came in he appointed Jeff Sessions as his new AG in 2016.
We need to have a public Congressional hearing and ask these people what happened in 2015-16 to make this investigation - and the evidence - disappear?
leftstreet
(40,383 posts)Not to defend her in any way !! No way
These revelations of repeated judicial malfeasance re: a HUGE trafficking, blackmail and money-laundering operation, spanning several years and administrations...well it makes you wonder if they're looking for a "sin eater" who can take the fall and make it all go away
Thanks for posting this
Kid Berwyn
(24,221 posts)Need some leverage over at CERN? Call Epstein.
Need a connection to landowners in Benin City? Call Epstein.
Need to boost Trump with Putin? Call Epstein.
Need help with the landlords of Wall Street? Call Epstein.

DIAL 1-666-NAKED TRUTH. Tariffs may apply.
intheflow
(30,162 posts)He might not have recalled it considering he was dealing with the fallout of the insurrection AND a country in the throws of a pandemic. He had priorities other than remembering a sidelined federal investigation which he may not have even known about in his VP role.
W_HAMILTON
(10,323 posts)...
The FBI is Trumpland, said one current agent.
This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House.
Taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hillary-clinton-james-comey-donald-trump
The FBI hsa been an insubordinate, anti-Democratic, Republican crimes catch-and-kill organization for well over s decade at this point. It's one of the reasons the next Democratic administration needs to completely clean house, starting with the immediate firing of the FBI Director.