OH Snap!

In yet another case of both sides being ineluctably evil, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas caught Joseph Snitt, acting deputy chief at the DOJ's Office of Enforcement Operations, on video admitting that Republican names will be redacted from the Epstein list.

So first, he admitted that there was a list, and second, he admitted that they were planning an active coverup.

I am amused.

The scandal over Jeffrey Epstein continues to trouble the Trump administration, and this week, another PR nightmare involving the dead pedophile blew up in the White House’s face. Said PR nightmare came from a surprising source: rightwing provocateur James O’Keefe, who notably made his name with the far-right activist group Project Veritas.

In the past, Veritas was known for targeting liberal organizations and Democrats, although, after a series of scandals, it’s no longer active. O’Keefe is still at it, however, and, in a surprising twist, he now seems to be targeting conservatives. This week, O’Keefe released a video captured with a hidden camera that purports to show a top Justice Department official discussing the Epstein case and claiming that the government will selectively redact the files to shift blame from Republicans to Democrats.

On Thursday, O’Keefe’s current organization, dubbed the O’Keefe Media Group, published a video involving Joseph Schnitt, a high-ranking official with the Justice Department. In the heavily edited video, Schnitt appears to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein files and seems to state that the government plans to politicize the future release of files. “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out where it’s ‘look at what’s going on’ without really seeing any of their [Republicans’] bad behavior,” Schnitt says. The woman’s side of the conversation is only heard off-camera, and she’s the one who brings up the Epstein files.

Later in the video, during a discussion about Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, Schnitt can be heard saying: “She got transferred to a minimum security prison, too, recently, which is against BOP [Bureau of Prisons] policy because she’s a convicted sex offender and they’re not supposed to get minimum security prisons, which is an interesting detail because she’s getting a benefit, which means they’re offering her something to keep her mouth shut.”

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In an effort to dispel the immediate controversy from O’Keefe’s video, the Justice Department took the very unusual (and, some would argue, certifiably insane) step of posting what appears to be an unedited iPhone screenshot of an email sent by Schnitt to Bondi. In so doing, the DOJ seems to have done journalists’ work for them and confirmed much of what O’Keefe’s organization has alleged about the undercover operative’s encounter with Schnitt.

The details provided by the email illuminate some of O’Keefe’s honeypotting tactics. In the email, Schnitt says that, in July, he met a woman on the dating app Hinge who said that her name was “Skylar.” Skylar, who claimed to be an au pair from Georgetown, went on two dates with Schnitt in August. Schnitt admits that he did identify himself as working for the government on his dating profile. The email also identifies Schnitt as an assistant deputy chief with the Justice Department’s Special Operations Unit.

Clearly, this guy was letting his little head do the thinking for him.

I'm just surprised that the honey-trap was not a 15 year old boy.