{"id":279,"date":"2025-08-22T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=279"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:23:15","slug":"russians-obtain-epstein-files-putin-jokes-about-replying-to-melanias-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/08\/russians-obtain-epstein-files-putin-jokes-about-replying-to-melanias-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians Obtain Epstein Files; Putin Jokes About Replying to Melania\u2019s Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MANHATTAN<\/strong> &#8211; Russian intelligence operatives obtained classified Jeffrey Epstein court documents after a federal judge accidentally left them on a Central Park bench Tuesday morning, according to FBI sources familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan reportedly forgot the sealed files during her routine jog through the park. A jogger discovered the manila folder near Bethesda Fountain around 8:30 AM and contacted park authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, surveillance footage shows two men in tracksuits retrieving the documents minutes earlier. The FBI&#8217;s Counterintelligence Division identified them as operatives from Russia&#8217;s SVR foreign intelligence service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This represents an unprecedented security breach,&#8221; said former CIA Director John Brennan during a CNN interview Wednesday. &#8220;Leaving classified materials in public spaces violates basic protocol.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Vladimir Putin referenced the incident during a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Kremlin. Three Russian officials confirmed Putin made jokes about the documents&#8217; contents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Vladimir Vladimirovich laughed and said he finally has interesting material for his correspondence,&#8221; one source told Reuters. The source suggested Putin referenced previous letters from First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal experts called the incident embarrassing for the federal judiciary. &#8220;Judges receive extensive training on classified material security,&#8221; said Professor Jonathan Turley from George Washington University Law School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN &#8211; Russian intelligence operatives obtained classified Jeffrey Epstein court documents after a federal judge accidentally left them on a Central Park bench Tuesday morning, according to FBI sources familiar with the investigation. U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan reportedly forgot the sealed files during her routine jog through the park. A jogger discovered the manila&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-epstein-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}