What do the released Jeffrey Epstein flight logs actually show about Bill Clinton's travel dates and destinations?

1. What the flight logs concretely record: multiple passenger entries in 2001–2003

Publicly released flight logs and subsequent media analyses show pilots recorded Bill Clinton as a passenger on Epstein flights concentrated in the early 2000s — especially 2002 and 2003 — with multiple legs tied to international stops ^{[1] [5]}; CNN’s review placed at least 16 recorded legs with Clinton and other Clinton office travel between 2001 and 2004 ^[6]. Different outlets report different tallies because some count individual flight legs while others count aggregate trips: reporting has cited figures such as 26 or 27 flight legs between February 2002 and November 2003, and other tallies list 16 or 17 recorded flights depending on methodology ^{[2] [3] [1]}.

2. Destinations documented in the logs: Europe, Asia, Africa — and a notable absence

The flight manifests and news reconstructions place Clinton on flights touching London, Hong Kong, Oslo, Beijing, Japan, Russia, Brunei and several African countries, among other stops, reflective of international foundation travel and speaking engagements in that period ^{[3] [2] [7]}. Specific flight entries cited in reporting include a May 20, 2002 record in which Epstein reportedly picked up Clinton in Siberia and flew him to a U.S. naval base in Japan, a detail flagged because Secret Service notation was not apparent on that entry ^[4]. Multiple news organizations emphasize that while the logs show worldwide destinations, they do not show Clinton flying to Epstein’s Little Saint James island in the Caribbean ^{[2] [8]}.

3. Secret Service and staff: mostly present on recorded legs, with some gaps and ambiguities

Clinton’s spokespeople and public statements have stressed that his trips on Epstein’s plane were taken with Clinton Foundation staff and Secret Service protection; several entries in the logs do indicate agent travel, and Clinton’s team has maintained Secret Service accompanied every leg of the publicized trips ^{[7] [2]}. But reporters and analysts have pointed out instances where Secret Service notation is missing or entries are illegible — for example, at least five flights on a 2002 Asia trip had no clear Secret Service detail in the flight logs and one 2003 entry was partly illegible — creating room for ambiguity in interpreting some records ^{[7] [4]}.

4. Diverging counts, sources, and limitations of the records

Different datasets and media reconstructions produce different totals — “26 flights,” “27 flights,” “17 times,” “16 recorded legs,” or “four international trips” have all been quoted in reputable coverage — because the logs can be parsed as individual legs, multi-stop trips, or distinct occasions, and some pages remain redacted or unclear ^{[3] [7] [6] [1]}. Testimony in court files corroborates that Clinton traveled on Epstein’s jet but does not fix a single canonical number — Ghislaine Maxwell’s testimony said Clinton traveled on Epstein’s plane but she “did not know how many times,” illustrating that witness accounts and raw logs each have limits ^[9].

5. Bottom line: what can be stated with confidence and what remains unresolved

With confidence: log entries and multiple independent analyses show Clinton was aboard Epstein aircraft multiple times in the early 2000s on international trips to Europe, Asia and Africa, and Clinton’s team has said those trips were Foundation-related and accompanied by staff and Secret Service ^{[3] [7] [2]}. Less resolvable from the released logs alone are an exact, universally agreed-upon count of flights (because of differing counting methods and leg-by-leg vs. trip tallies) and the full staffing for every single entry where notations are missing or illegible; importantly, the available flight records do not provide verified evidence that Clinton visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island ^{[2] [4] [8]}.