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.
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.