Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump’s justice department released more than 3m files last week
The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week’s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline.
The missed deadline and up to 3m files that remain unreleased have prompted criticism and calls for further disclosure to answer how Epstein sexually abused girls with impunity for decades and landed a sweetheart plea deal about 20 years ago that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution.
The release is WAY past the legally mandated deadline; it’s not even HALF of what’s there, it’s improperly redacted- exposing victims and CSAM
The DOJ CANNOT be trusted
The full files UNREDACTED is the only way forward
Only leaks will release the files, and they are definitely held under a tight watch, if not destroyed where they can. The really incendenary stuff likely kept under unrelated file names, an old trick to keep courts or prying eyes from ordering the release of files or the leak thereof. Someone would be a hero, but should maybe skip out to a non extradition country immediately after the leak to happen after they are safe somewhere.
Or just someone with nothing left to lose that doesn’t care. Some patriot, they do exist, some that learned the bosses they believed in were always cynical betrayers of the country, some going along to get along despite knowing the vagaries of our leaders. Either way, if one could get their hands on it
If we ever have even a modest return to liberal democracy, there will likely be a lot of trials and these bozos know it. There is plenty of historical precedent, but nobody here thinks they will be the ones thrown under the bus or left holding the hot potato when the music stops.
The music can’t play forever.
Consider for a moment the fact that you just said the solution to them releasing unredacted child porn is to release more unredacted child porn.
The only way for justice is to bring the crimes to light. The best way to honor the victims of abuse are to nail the perpetrators to the wall, and that is the only way to do that. And the files could be mostly released to media which then could redact sensitive information, but the files would be available to enough organizations/people that improper redactions to shield their favorites, looking at you NYTimes, would be caught, called out.
Consider for a moment the only thing we can confidently say they are reacting is things that would harm the perpetrators. They’ve redacted everybody but a victim time and again across the files they’ve released, frequently they’ll react a perp in one document only to leave it unredacted in the next despite it having identical content (namely the text messages as there is message text contents as well as screenshots). Seeing as they already fail to redact child porn and are definitely redacting things that’ll implicate people, including even Epstein I think you can make an extremely good argument they shouldn’t be redacted at all when it’s being done so plainly maliciously
They were looking for the president’s name, and his favorites. 1,000 agents all last year was it on this? They probably used computer programs and ai to flag all mentions of people, redact by default all mentions of some things, etc to speed the process of redacting 8,000,000 files.
They were bad at it, partly because what they were redacting wasn’t what they were supposed to be redacting, they were supposed to be protecting victims and safeguarding investigations. No one is more of a victim than the president and his party I suppose. As if there are ongoing investigations that aren’t looking into how people found out about which abuse and how to capture and kill the information, and never how do we prosecute these people.
Thank you for understanding my intention
It’s pretty clear they’re saying they should only be redacted to protect victims, not perpetrators.
I saw something like this once, in a two day speech given by Carneades of Cyrene in Rome.
And I thought I was old!