The FBI Field Office in New York produced myriad documents pertaining to its criminal probe into child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested in a Feb. 17, 2025, letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that "thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein" were stored on site there.
Some of these documents were allegedly compromised in a hack years before the Department of Justice began publishing the heavily redacted Epstein files.
Reuters' source suggested that the hack appears to have been executed by a 'cybercriminal' rather than a foreign government.
The bureau revealed in 2023 that it was investigating a hack of its computer network, which it characterized as an "isolated incident that has been contained."
Multiple sources briefed on the matter told CNN at the time that FBI officials suspected the incident involved a bureau computer system used in the investigations of images of child sexual exploitation.
Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter and recently published DOJ documents, reported on Wednesday that the hack entailed a foreign actor's targeting of files related to the FBI's investigation of Epstein.
The hack reportedly took place after a server at the New York FBI office's Child Exploitation Forensic Lab was allegedly left exposed by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who did not return Reuters' numerous requests for comment but has previously issued a voluminous statement on the matter.
Among the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice in recent months is a 2024 statement from Spivack in which he addresses the allegations that he "improperly stored digital evidence at his residence"; "improperly handled, documented, and stored digital evidence and failed to secure [child sexual abuse material] within policy, resulting in a cyber intrusion"; and "exceeded the limits of his authority by contracting an outside company to develop computer software on behalf of the FBI."
Spivack — who apparently participated in the Epstein investigation — stated that the cyber "intrusion" happened on Feb. 12, 2023.
After logging into his computer to find a .txt file indicating that his network had been compromised, Spivack claimed that he ran an anti-virus sweep, which identified a potential threat. He said that he was unable, however, to remove the threat, as his "administrative privileges had been removed."
Spivack notified some of his colleagues, attempting to rectify the issue, then noticed that the main server was down, that other servers were malfunctioning, and that "the folders that contain our data was missing."
According to Spivack's timeline, he and others later noticed "strange IP activity that took place [on Feb. 12] from two IP addresses."
"The activity included combing through certain files pertaining to the Epstein investigation," stated Spivack.
It's unclear what particular files were accessed and whether they were downloaded, reported Reuters.
By 5 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2023, Spivack said, "we realized we were hacked."
The FBI reiterated that the "cyber incident" was an "isolated one" and said in a statement obtained by Reuters that "the FBI restricted access to the malicious actor and rectified the network. The investigation remains ongoing, so we do not have further comments to provide at this time."
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
Reuters' source suggested:
The hacker — whom the FBI allegedly spoke to on video chat but was unable to identify or locate — may have acted alone, but Jon Lindsay, an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, suggested that the hack demonstrates the files' potential intelligence value.
"Who wouldn’t be going after the Epstein files if you’re the Russians or somebody interested in kompromat?" Lindsay told Reuters. "If foreign intelligence agencies are not thinking seriously about the Epstein files as a target, then I would be shocked."
Reuters indicated it was unable to "establish the result of the bureau's internal investigation" regarding Spivack or connect with FBI agents identified in the documents as being involved in the investigation.
Spivack stressed in his 2024 statement, "I have rescued more exploited children than anyone in the NYFO and in most of the Bureau. All I wanted to do was to better the Bureau. I did not know how to do everything right, but I always did the right thing and everything I did was with good intentions. I love this job. I was not reckless."
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Newly released footage from the House Oversight Committee has put Bill and Hillary Clinton back under the microscope — this time over their past associations with Jeffrey Epstein.
During his testimony, former President Bill Clinton was shown photos of himself with the convicted sex offender.
“They actually decided to show him some of the photos of his time with Epstein during the testimony,” Gonzales says, pointing out that “he is having quite the time reliving his past experience with Epstein.”
In the clip of Clinton, he appears to be taken by the photos, staring at them while his lawyer tries to grab them and take them away from him. He takes them back and looks a little longer.
“That is not, to me, not the vibes you want to be giving when you’re being questioned about your involvement with a known sex trafficker of young girls. Probably not the look that you want to give,” Gonzales says.
Clinton also went on to claim while under oath that he never has lied while under oath, Gonzales says.
“Very interesting when we just revisit some of Bill Clinton’s very famous history,” Gonzales comments.
“First question I have for you, Mr. President, have you ever lied in a deposition?” Clinton was asked during his testimony.
“No,” Clinton responded.
“Have you ever lied while under oath?” he was asked again.
“No,” he responded again.
“I think what he meant was, ‘No, I’ve never lied while under oath, except for the time that I was impeached for lying under oath about having an affair with my intern Monica Lewinsky,’” Gonzales says.
“Do you really reach a point in your life where you actually forget that you were a president who was impeached for lying under oath about the affair that you had in the Oval Office with your staffer?” she asks. “Like, I feel like that would have to be the very last memory to go.”
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Former President Bill Clinton stated during his Friday deposition that President Donald Trump never gave him any indication he was involved with convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
The committee deposed his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the day prior. During her testimony, she seemed to throw Bill Clinton under the bus by deferring most of their questions to her husband, lawmakers reported.
'I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.'
Epstein reportedly visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton administration. Flight logs revealed that Bill Clinton took 26 flights on Epstein's plane, including international trips to Bangkok, Rwanda, Russia, and China. Clinton's last known documented trip on Epstein's plane was in November 2003.
Ahead of Friday's hearing, Clinton shared his opening statement to the public.
"As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals," he wrote.
Clinton advocated justice and healing for the "girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed."
He framed his relationship with Epstein as a "brief" acquaintanceship that "ended years before his crimes came to light." He claimed he "never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on," insisting that he "had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing."
"I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong," Clinton wrote.
The former president warned in his opening statement that he would often answer lawmakers' questions with, "I don't recall."
"That might be unsatisfying. But I'm not going to say something I'm not sure of. This was all a long time ago," he stated.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to Clinton's opening statement in a post on X, writing, "We've added a new question for former President Bill Clinton to the top of the list: Do you suffer from dementia or memory loss?"
Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice. In a 2001 statement, Clinton confessed to providing false testimony under oath and acknowledged violating a judge's discovery orders. He conceded that he had "tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," admitting that some of his responses "were false."
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During a break in Clinton's Friday deposition, Chairman Comer addressed reporters to share a comment the former president made. Comer explained that Clinton stated President Donald Trump "has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved" with Epstein.
"I know there's a lot of curiosity about President Trump. I thought that was an interesting thing that President Clinton said," Comer stated.
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During her Thursday deposition, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Jeffrey Epstein, urging lawmakers to direct many of their questions about the convicted sexual predator to her husband, former President Bill Clinton, whose hearing was scheduled for the following day.
While video and transcript of Hillary Clinton’s deposition have not yet been released to the public, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) stated that she repeatedly claimed she did not remember ever meeting Epstein and deferred the lawmakers’ questions to her husband.
‘I’m not going to do it again.’
“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my husband,’ was more than a dozen,” Comer told reporters after Hillary Clinton’s deposition.
“She said many times under oath that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein,” he explained during an interview with Fox News. “The reason she was asked so many times is, we kept presenting new items of evidence: emails from Epstein where he implied that he was very close with the Clinton family, including Hillary; emails that implied that he set up the Clinton Foundation, that he was one of the biggest donors and one of the main early seed-money raisers for the Clinton Global Initiative.”
Hillary Clinton reportedly denied involvement in the Clinton Global Initiative while she was a U.S. senator. According to Comer, she referred to Epstein as “a con artist.”
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Legal scholar Jonathan Turley reacted to the committee’s reports of Hillary Clinton’s deposition, stating that she “seemed to sort of throw Bill under the bus.”
Members of the committee agreed to hold the closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, rather than requiring the Clintons to travel to Washington, D.C. This decision came after months of resistance from the couple and a vote finding them in contempt of Congress.
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Despite initially defying congressional subpoenas, the Clintons had pushed for their depositions this week to be held as public hearings, which the committee denied.
Comer previously explained that the initial depositions had to be held in private but that the committee would consider public hearings afterward. However, Comer stated that video and transcript from the depositions would be released to the public.
Following Hillary Clinton’s Thursday deposition, she shut down any future chance of her participating in a public hearing.
“I’m not going to do it again,” she told reporters. “They had a chance to do it in public, and I wish they had done it in public.”
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