The mainstream media has picked up on the Trump administration’s myth that they handed over all the documents from the Epstein files.
Jamie Raskin, a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the Trump administration has turned over only half of the documents and that of the documents that have been released, hundreds of thousands of pages have been redacted.
Attorney General Pam Bondi is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Feb. 11, and Raskin and Democrats on the committee want to review the unredacted records before her appearance.
Raskin wrote to the DOJ:
Our review is particularly urgent because the DOJ itself claims to have identified more than six million potentially responsive pages, but after releasing only about half of them – including more than 200,000 pages redacted or withheld by the DOJ – it strangely claims that it has fully complied with the law. We seek to ensure that your deletions comply with the law’s requirements that records be released only in specified circumstances, such as to protect victims’ personally identifiable information, and not on the basis of “embarrassment, reputational damage, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”
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Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a series of documents relating to disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and claims to have fully complied with its obligations under the Epstein Records Transparency Act (EFTA). At the press conference, Assistant Attorney General Blanche also said, “If any Member of Congress wishes to review any portion of the production’s response in an unredacted form, they are welcome to make arrangements with the Department to do so, and we are happy to do so.” »
Additionally, in light of Attorney General Bondi’s appearance at a hearing before the Committee on February 11, it is essential that Committee members and staff have the opportunity to review unredacted records to evaluate the legality and appropriateness of your redactions and to question the Attorney General about them.
It’s shocking that so many people are willing to take what Trump’s DOJ released at face value.
Complete documents must be reviewed.
It is not smart to expect the law to be upheld by an administration led by a 34-time convicted felon.
Democrats need to exercise control because this is a tiny fraction of what Epstein survivors deserve.
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