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The Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.

The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s victims were a priority, and had slowed the process.

“There are more than two million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review,” she wrote in the letter co-signed by Todd Blanche, her deputy, and Jay Clayton, US attorney for the southern district of New York.

"What are they trying to hide?” Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said in a post to X on Monday accusing the justice department of failing to submit a required unredacted list to Congress “of all government officials and politically exposed persons” named or referenced in the files.

“It’s been 17 DAYS since the Trump DOJ first broke the law and failed to release all the Epstein files. It’s been 14 DAYS since Trump’s DOJ released anything at all – with the DOJ doing everything in its power to delay and obfuscate.”

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[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, wrote a five-page update to Paul Engelmayer, the federal New York judge overseeing the case, on Monday, asserting that efforts to protect the identities of Epstein’s ~~victims~~ co-conspirators were a priority, and had slowed the process.

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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It would take fucking minutes to auto find each victim name, and censor it, and maybe, MAYBE, a few days for a team of people to review it and manually change what wasn't caught.

If charges don't come out of how this was handled, let alone for sure charging all of the child rapists and anyone that helped them, we need to burn this mother fucker down.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

redacting information is a lot harder than that. you often have to redact things that allow people to draw correlations that lead to identity… details like that should be redacted

but this is ridiculous on its own, even without the enormous blunders that prove it’s about protecting co-conspirators rather than victims

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

I mean I do imagine it would take a bit of time, but they've got entire teams of people who's entire jobs are handling that.

It wouldn't take this long, even if they actually needed to both protect victims and help coconspirators. It's been literal years, and even the mandate from a few months back was an extreme amount of time.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I completely agree with you, but I distinctly remember saying "There's no way Trump comes back from this" five years ago today, and yet here we are. I have very little hope for the system as it is now.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, agreed. I wasn't as hopeful then, just because all of the blatant crime starting 10 years ago and frankly decades ago, but every time I think there's a line, like a party to or directly throwing a baby that was just murdered into a lake with witnesses around, I do think, this has got to be it.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't take this personally, your heart is in the right place.

I think you can't see the forest for the trees. There will be no charges. It will not be released. Trump will ratchet up the insanity to the level that's needed to make child sex trafficking irrelevant.

The only option at this point is extreme, active, hot and visible resistance. It's the only thing that will break through. There will be no meaningful midterms. You're in a fight for your life, and if you fail your country will become history's next fascist experiment. Every American has to consider the world after America has subjugated it, causing untold suffering and destruction - will you be okay to live in that country? Will you be able to push the death out of your mind and live a happy life?

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I couldn't, it's constructive advice and it's appreciated, but I do see it that way. Maybe not as deeply and as eloquently as you put it, but yeah that is exactly how I view it, but with a dash of hope I likely shouldn't still have.

Thanks for chiming in