There's no question that the pivot was a failure, and it might even be true that Bongino considered resigning because how the memos were handled by DOJ, not necessarily that it couldn't be released.

Shit like this is why I don't believe in justice at all. Like, I understand the concept, but since I don't accept the existence of God, and I don't accept objective morality (because clearly the blood-curdling atrocities of our age, as well as many others, were considered moral imperatives by the people who committed them), then I can't really accept the concept of justice as some universal, objective, thing.

I realized that, strategically, it would be better to pardon everyone involved in the Epstein Affair, so long as they told the truth. Punishing them for injustice is simply impossible in a fundamentally anti-moral civilization that we live in. Simply speaking the truth would be so damaging that the de-legitimatization of these institutional structures would be the closest to justice that we could get, only so that the rapes would stop happening. It's not really "justice" if the cop guns down a school shooter, it just stops the situation from getting worse, and the even is prevented from magnifying.

I genuinely think that if you charged each person involved, and guaranteed them a pardon for a public admission of guilt that would name names, and then kept following that chain of confessions, although justice could not be done for the victims, the institutional damage would be so severe it would be a good enough stand-in for it. Justice, like Mercy, can only come from a position of strength.