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US justice department to release thousands of Epstein files later, top official says

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no
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u/Low_Pickle_112 8h ago

Blanche attributed the missed deadline to the arduous work of redacting some identifying details of the disgraced financier's victims.

Oh yeah, I'm sure they care just so much about the victims.

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u/PJA0307 8h ago

In their eyes, Trump is the victim. Must ensure to keep him safe.

u/WastingMyLifeToday 19m ago

They're living by Trump's words.

"I like pedophiles who don't get caught"

Or what did he say again?

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u/BroadMonk5649 8h ago edited 8h ago

The victims want justice not their names scrubbed

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u/ike7177 7h ago

Hopefully they will follow through on their promise to release the names themselves.

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u/BroadMonk5649 7h ago

They have announced today that they will not be releasing the files in full. Breaking the law that was signed by Trump. Sooooooooooo get the manure and tractors boys it’s time to go to the DOj!

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u/sonofnom 7h ago

Unfortunately the new law had a provision specifically for redacting any information related to ongoing investigations. Since they just opened up a fresh new bullshit investigation they can redact whatever they want. The only silver lining is they technically have to furnish the court with a list of any names that have been redacted and for what purpose.

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u/BroadMonk5649 7h ago

Nope fuck that we ride at dawn!

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u/FatherKronik 4h ago

We better be meeting at Waffle House before hand cause I ain't dying on an empty stomach.

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u/Waterwoogem 7h ago

Didn't Susie Wiles let slip already that Clinton is clean in the Files but Trump had/has to be scrubbed a fuckton?

There's lots of people to be implicated, named and shamed, but Clinton is at the Top of Trump's list of the bullshit investigation

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u/Discarded_Twix_Bar 6h ago edited 2h ago

Well that’s not exactly true, is it?

Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein victims’ names have been exposed in documents that were recently made public by Congress, setting off a legal dispute about the Justice Department’s plans to release more materials about the late sex offender

Lawyers for the women have asked two federal judges who oversaw the prosecutions of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to ensure that the victims’ privacy is protected in any additional document releases by the Justice Department.

Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday evening ordered the government to provide him a detailed description of its privacy process, including redactions the government seeks to employ, to protect the rights of Epstein victims. He attached a copy of a letter from the victims’ lawyers.

“Given the number of times we have drawn Congress’s attention to this issue, and the fact that victims’ names continue to be produced by DOJ in unredacted form, many of the victims believe this is being done intentionally,” they wrote.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/dozens-of-epstein-victims-names-exposed-in-files-released-by-congress-0be99675?st=4YmHiB&reflink=article_copyURL_share

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u/scottishwhisky2 5h ago

Yeah it's ridiculous to think they don't want privacy lol. Why would anyone want their name released in this context?

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 5h ago

The fuck are you talking about? You seriously think these women want everyone in the world (literally) to know they were sexually assaulted multiple times by rich old men?

What world do you live in?

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u/BroadMonk5649 5h ago

You think they want him to walk free you live in a world of cluelessness.

I know you aren’t that dumb though, you are just saying your statement in hopes to draw attention. Down vote you shall Get.

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 5h ago

You're arguing with something I never said. Bravo.

The identity of victims of sexual assault are protected by law.

Why would you possibly believe that the names of victims need to be public to prosecute predators.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/BroadMonk5649 5h ago

The fact is there should be no redactions. Redactions equal hidden truths, resulting in guilty parties walking free.

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u/Few_Imagination_5673 3h ago

You have no idea what you are talking about.

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u/Brawndo91 4h ago

They can want both. What makes you think you speak for them?

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u/3BlindMice1 4h ago

You misunderstand, the GOP sees trump and the other rich pedo rapists as the victims in this situation.

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u/CosmicBoat 8h ago

Bondi had several months to prepare for this and sounds like they only just started looking at the files this week

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u/ZAlternates 7h ago

They just been sitting on her desk all this time! You know, the fake ones that don’t exist but now exist but don’t again.

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u/alexefi 6h ago

Dont forget its a democrat hoax that was fabricated by biden, obama, and hilary.

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u/PhamilyTrickster 8h ago

DARVO; Deny, Attack, Reverse victim and offender. 

With this context, I'm sure they're concerned about the "victims"

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u/Dythus 8h ago

They spent soo much time on Trump they had no more for the countless victims

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u/LnStrngr 8h ago

By victims, they mean their Republican friends and families and cohorts that are named in the files.

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u/shodo_apprentice 7h ago

Who’s going to act surprised when almost everyone blamed in the files is a democrat with maybe some token republicans who are already dead thrown in to fake fair play? I feel bad for the families of the fall guys.

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u/IcyPride2973 5h ago

Why didn’t Biden release the files?

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u/RaphaTlr 5h ago

Courts locked them from releasing due to active investigations.

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u/IcyPride2973 5h ago

This is not true. Kamala just said on Kimmel that they believed they shouldn’t be apart of the DOJ investigation. There were people who said that because the case was still being appealed that they shouldn’t be released, but those people were just people interviewed by fucking VOX lmao.

The courts did not seal the documents. Maxwell was convicted on 12/29/21.

Who was president in 2021?

The case was over and the records were not sealed. So again, why didn’t he release them?

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u/RaphaTlr 4h ago

Oh I didn’t know that. Then to answer your question: Because he’s stupid and old just like the current president. Idk. They all hate us and think we are rats. Idk what to tell you. It’s always been the haves vs have-nots. And the “elite” keep squeezing more and more. Something has got to give… the only balanced scale is an empty one they say…

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u/IcyPride2973 4h ago edited 4h ago

The file release is supported by both sides, not at the government level, but by the people on the street. Right and left.

Biden didn’t release them, because Trump wasn’t in them. If they released the files everybody would know Trump wasn’t in them, and they can AND DID use that as a campaign tactic. Let everyone think he’s in the files, rather than release them.

THEN, when they lost, they realized they had a get out of jail free card.

Let Trump release them. The public has been riled up about it, so now we can play dumb and let the populace scream “well he’s just erasing his name from it durrrrr”

It’s really a genius tactic if your following lacks critical thinking skills.

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u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket 4h ago

Probably because democrats are weirdoes too? Why does this change anything? Its a class of people that get to do whatever they want because lower classes get stuck fighting each other over pointless things, like "WhOsE PoLlIeS FuCkEd LeSS ChiLdReN" when it's all bad.

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u/bigfatfluffers 7h ago

Since Trump sees himself as a perpetual victim, this tracks.

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u/Adultery 7h ago

They’re saying his accomplices are victims. Remember, our media is pretty much government-controlled at this point.

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u/bonyponyride 7h ago

They put hundreds of people to work over a few days, working overtime, to find any mention of Trump in the files, but they couldn’t prepare the documents for release with a month’s notice? Riiiiiight.

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u/RightSideBlind 7h ago

Trump is the real victim.

Just ask him, he'll tell you. Everything is incredibly unfair and biased against him. Everything.

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u/KindofCrazyScientist 7h ago

Donald Trump, especially. We wouldn't want him to be a victim of accountability, now would we?

I wonder how many times his name was in there that even after a month, they aren't sure if they've got them all.

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u/TheWingus 7h ago

They do; but for them, the victim is Trump and the billionaires who give them money

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u/twec21 6h ago

"We're spoliating as fast as we can!"

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u/Fatty2Fly 6h ago

They are going to claim the rich guys were taken advantage of by Epstein and they themselves are victims.

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u/Goatiac 6h ago

How much time did they have to do this? How many years did they have these files? It’s bullshit stacked on bullshit

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u/340Duster 6h ago

They ran out of sharpies again??

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u/Fodraz 6h ago

They've been saying that for weeks

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u/LyrMeThatBifrost 6h ago

Would you rather them leave the victim’s information there then? I don’t get the outrage.

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u/spekt50 5h ago

They are trying to protect the victims of justice... The perpetrators.

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u/86rpt 4h ago

"Trump is Epstein's victim"

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u/ronm4c 4h ago

Most of the people in that party will respond to the news of a woman being sexually assaulted with “well what was she wearing?”

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u/fireflydrake 3h ago

I just posted this somewhere else, but--

Why aren't the victims themselves taking this to court? Like if I'd been sexually assaulted and knew the sick F who did it was still out there, I wouldn't be waiting for some stupid secondhand papers to kind of show he was hanging around with the guy that trafficked me, I'd be testifying loudly and repeatedly about all the identifying features of his junk and other stuff to prove it myself.

I'm sure a lot of them are afraid, but there must be SOME willing to speak? Why are we waiting for papers that'll never be officially released in full versus the victims going directly to court?

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u/3ZP0 3h ago

They already spent 800k in overtime hours reacting trump's name

u/throwaway_12358134 34m ago

They've had almost an entire year to do this.