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DOJ Appeals Judge Sullivan’s Epstein Files Ruling in Katie Phang Lawsuit (8/26/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Todd Blanche and the DOJ is engaged in
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  Speaker 1: a battle with Judge Emmett Sullivan. And he is the
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  Speaker 1: judge that's presiding over the Katie Fang lawsuit that was
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  Speaker 1: filed against Todd Blanche and the DOJ. Well, now Todd
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  Speaker 1: Blanche has decided that he doesn't want anything else to
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  Speaker 1: do with Judge Sullivan. So he's taking the files fight.
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  Speaker 1: to the appeals court. And this all comes on the
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  Speaker 1: heels of the latest order that was filed by Judge
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan informing the DOJ that their bullshit is over. And
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  Speaker 1: you would think that the most transparent, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: most transparent administration in the history of America would just
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  Speaker 1: want to give this information up. But I guess not.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, are you telling me that they're not really
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  Speaker 1: the most transparent administration in history? Who would have guessed?
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  Speaker 1: Today's article is from Radar Online and the headline, Trump
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  Speaker 1: DOJ takes Epstein Files fight to appeals court as lawyers
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  Speaker 1: clash over nearly 100 examples of handwritten FBI interview notes.
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  Speaker 1: This article was authored by Ashlyn Walker. The Trump Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department is taking its battle over the Jeffrey Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: to a federal appeals court as a separate courtroom clash
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  Speaker 1: erupts over handwritten FBI interview notes. tied to the sex offender. RadarOnline.com
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  Speaker 1: can reveal. Look, we all knew they weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: go down without swinging. There was no way that they
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  Speaker 1: were interested in transparency like they said they were. What
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  Speaker 1: they were interested in is making sure that this all
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  Speaker 1: goes away. And this lawsuit that was filed by Katie
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  Speaker 1: Fang is pretty inconvenient to them. So what they want
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  Speaker 1: to do is get the hell out of Dodge and
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  Speaker 1: get in front of another judge that might be more favorable.
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  Speaker 1: According to new court documents obtained by Radar, the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department filed a notice of appeal Monday, August 24th, challenging
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  Speaker 1: a federal judge's order granting journalist and attorney Katie Fang
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  Speaker 1: a preliminary injunction in her lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Blanch.
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  Speaker 1: Did people really think that the DOJ, led by Todd
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  Speaker 1: Blanch and Donald Trump, were just going to take this
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  Speaker 1: one on the chin? We already know that that's never
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. There's no accountability. There's no moral compass.
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  Speaker 1: What there is, is a cover-up. U.S. District Judge Emmett
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan's sweeping June order required Blanche to either release certain
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  Speaker 1: Epstein-related material or explain why they should remain withheld. Among
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  Speaker 1: them were underlying FBI interview notes used to prepare four
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  Speaker 1: FD-302 interview reports, the FBI forms agents used to summarize
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  Speaker 1: information gathered during interviews, as well as emails with sender
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  Speaker 1: and receipt names redacted in documents containing the names, of
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  Speaker 1: potential co-conspirators. But of course, we have to keep this
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  Speaker 1: stuff sealed. You guys catching on yet? You see that
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  Speaker 1: you're being hustled? You see that you're being bullshitted? And
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  Speaker 1: you see that Todd Blanche doesn't really give a fuck
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  Speaker 1: about the law? Which is wild considering, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: the Attorney General and all. You would think that this
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  Speaker 1: guy would be very concerned about the institution and about
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  Speaker 1: the reputation of the institution. But no. You know what
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  Speaker 1: he cares about? making sure that Donald Trump's happy. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. That's the story. Sullivan also ordered the government
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  Speaker 1: to begin reviewing foreign language material, potentially covered by the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein-Fyle Transparency Act, and either publish a legally required redaction
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  Speaker 1: log in the Federal Register, or explain why it could not.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't done anything that they were supposed to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I find it laughable when people are out
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  Speaker 1: here acting like they've complied. Go play your politics somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Go talk about gender swapping or whatever the fuck you
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  Speaker 1: cultural war people talk about. Whatever you do, though, get
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  Speaker 1: the fuck out of the arena when it comes to Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: You have no idea what you're talking about. The vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of these people that just pop off have zero
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  Speaker 1: clue what they're talking about. But everybody's an expert, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: as long as that engagement's going. The judge delivered another
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  Speaker 1: blow to the government. In his 48-page opinion, finding that
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  Speaker 1: Fang was likely to prevail on the relevant claims after
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ, failed to substantively answer several of her arguments.
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan also rejected the government's request to temporarily stay as
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  Speaker 1: ruling while officials considered an appeal. The appeal comes as
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  Speaker 1: another potentially explosive dispute has emerged over handwritten FBI interview notes.
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  Speaker 1: In an August 20th filing, Fang's attorney sought to correct
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  Speaker 1: the record following an August 13th hearing. And speaking of
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe number four, I have some of those court documents.
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  Speaker 1: And we have some episodes coming up that deal with
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe number four and the joinder motion that she
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  Speaker 1: filed trying to sue the Epstein estate. And look, it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be just one piece of evidence that
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  Speaker 1: puts everything together. It's the totality of the evidence that's
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  Speaker 1: been collected throughout the years. And that's why all these
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  Speaker 1: court documents are so important. According to the filing, the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ previously argued certain handwritten notes could be withheld and
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  Speaker 1: because they were substantially similar to all duplicative of typed
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  Speaker 1: FD-302 reports, while also citing the risk of inadvertently revealing
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  Speaker 1: victim information. Oh, they care about that all of a sudden?
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that the whole goal the first time around? Ah, let's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let the victim's information get out, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: protect Les Wexner. What do you mean there was other
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  Speaker 1: people involved? It was just Jeffrey Epstein. Haven't you seen
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  Speaker 1: what Kash Patel said? Bunch of fucking morons. People like
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  Speaker 1: Data Republican. You ever see this person on Twitter? Runs around,
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  Speaker 1: does all these profiles talking about this one, that one's corrupt. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it just comes out, she's on the Department of War's payroll.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, make it make sense. I guess my point is,
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  Speaker 1: be very, very careful who you trust. Like, there's people
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  Speaker 1: out here that have all kinds of bad intentions. People
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  Speaker 1: that don't give a flying fuck about the stories they're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. And the only reason they're in it is
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  Speaker 1: so they can get paid. And people like that are
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  Speaker 1: dangerous because they're going to go wherever the money is.
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  Speaker 1: And if that means trying to destroy a story because
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  Speaker 1: they're being paid to do it, that's what they'll do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that can't be genuine. People
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  Speaker 1: that refuse to be genuine. People that are scared to
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  Speaker 1: lose listeners or subscribers. And those are the people that
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  Speaker 1: are never going to stand up for anything. They're just
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  Speaker 1: going to follow the herd. And unfortunately, there's just too
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  Speaker 1: many people like that. Too many people that don't give
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  Speaker 1: a fuck what they say as long as it drives engagement.
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  Speaker 1: They don't see the big picture. They don't feel like
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  Speaker 1: they have any responsibility to you or anyone else. And
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  Speaker 1: the only punishment for that is to not engage. According
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  Speaker 1: to the filing DOJ previously argued, certain handwritten notes could
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  Speaker 1: be withheld because they were substantially similar to and duplicative
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  Speaker 1: of typed FD302 reports, while also citing the risk of
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  Speaker 1: inadvertently revealing victim information. But Fang's lawyers claim the government
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  Speaker 1: had already released the very type of material it was
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  Speaker 1: fighting to withhold. During the hearing, government counsel was asked
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  Speaker 1: whether other handwritten FBI notes underlying 302 reports had been
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  Speaker 1: released and responded, to my knowledge, not with respect to
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  Speaker 1: the 302s. Fang's filing fired back defendant's counsel is not correct.
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  Speaker 1: Her attorneys provided examples of handwritten notes they said the
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  Speaker 1: DOJ previously produced and claimed they had identified nearly 100
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  Speaker 1: additional examples. Well, yeah, there's been a bunch of 302s.
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  Speaker 1: We've gone through them. So I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: this lawyer is saying. Like, did they pick this dude
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  Speaker 1: out of the basement? They were like, look, you got
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  Speaker 1: to go and represent the DOJ in a cause that
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  Speaker 1: is just lost. So we're going to send our worst lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what they did? Because their arguments are ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: The legal showdown comes despite DOJ previously declaring its Epstein
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  Speaker 1: disclosure obligations fulfilled. Sullivan noted the department had produced. approximately
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  Speaker 1: three and a half million pages before announcing in January
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  Speaker 1: that it had complied with its production obligations under the
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  Speaker 1: transparency law. Fang nevertheless alleged information was improperly withheld and
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  Speaker 1: other requirements remained unmet. Claims that ultimately persuaded Sullivan to
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  Speaker 1: grant preliminary relief. Well, the truth is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And the DOJ, they're running out of road. Eventually, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to run into a judge who has had enough.
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  Speaker 1: And when that day comes, boy, it's going to be grand.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope that one of these judges recommends a
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  Speaker 1: special counsel, because that's what we need. There needs to
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  Speaker 1: be a special counsel appointed, and that special counsel needs
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  Speaker 1: to have a wide range of power. And not only
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  Speaker 1: power to subpoena, but also power to indict. Fang, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: alleged information was improperly withheld, and other requirements remained unmet.
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  Speaker 1: claims that ultimately persuaded Sullivan to grant preliminary relief. The
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  Speaker 1: appeals court will now be asked to weigh in as
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  Speaker 1: a battle over exactly what the public is entitled to
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  Speaker 1: see enters a new phase. Well, we're entitled to see
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  Speaker 1: it all. That's really what it comes down to. That's
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  Speaker 1: what the EFTA says. And they haven't produced even a
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  Speaker 1: portion of what they should. Oh, they've produced, what, three
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  Speaker 1: and a half million pages of documents? Cool. Do we
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  Speaker 1: have a log as to why you redacted things? Do
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  Speaker 1: we have the names of people that were involved? Have
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  Speaker 1: you followed the law as it was written? Of course
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  Speaker 1: you haven't. So there's plenty of work to be done.
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  Speaker 1: And there's plenty of information that still needs to come out.
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  Speaker 1: And if the DOJ and Todd Blanch aren't willing to
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  Speaker 1: do that of their own accord, then they should be
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  Speaker 1: forced to do so by the court. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this fight right here is all about. So we'll have
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  Speaker 1: to see what happens with this appeal and what the
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  Speaker 1: appeal court says. But I have a good feeling that
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ is about to get a spanking. All the
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