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Judicial Watch And The Epstein Related FOIA (5/25/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to another episode of
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  the Epstein Chronicles. It's been four months since Donald Trump
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  was elected, and the only thing Epstein related we have
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  to show for it are a bunch of jerk off
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  influencers who don't know the first thing about Jeffrey Epstein
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  and some lame ass white binders. And unfortunately for everybody
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  out there that thought change was coming, I hate to
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  say it, but I told you so. Meet the new boss,
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  same as the old boss. The people who are in
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  charge here, and believe me, it's not the masade like
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  the morons want to tell you. The real people who
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  are in charge here are the people who are in
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  charge of the purse strings. That means the financial sector
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  and whatever the financial sector says goes. Are you not
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  paying attention yet? I'm not exactly what you would call
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  a super religious guy, but if you read the Bible,
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  who did Jesus get mad at the only people? Basically, Yeah,
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  that's right, the bankers. So all the people out here
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  that want to talk their nonsense about dancing Jews, thea
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  is Railies, massad, and there's no doubt that all of
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  those folks I just mentioned certainly played a little bit
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  of a part. But anyone who wants to pitch the
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  bullshit that they were the ones running Epstein, that they
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  were the ones in charge of Epstein, well, those people
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  that are pumping that shit, they're part of the syop
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  and they're part of the misdirection. And I hate to
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  be the bearer of bad news. But neither party gives
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  a shit about justice when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein
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  because all of their leashes are being held by the banks.
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  So you can save all the other bullshit for somebody
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  else who doesn't know this story. But around these parts,
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  the whole entire misdirection bullshit part of the syop is
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  not going to get any traction. There's no doubt that
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  Jeffrey Epstein was farmed out to the Masader, but to
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  act like Jeffrey Epstein was a Masad creation is absolutely
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  insane and completely wrong. But some people want to feed
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  into their bias, right, Some people need that part of
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  the story to be the glue that connects the rest
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  of their bullshit together. But the truth is, the real
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  boogeyman isn't the intelligence networks themselves. It's the people that
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  are funding these intelligence networks and to find out who
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  those people are, look no further than the hedge funds
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  and the financial sector itself, people like Jamie Dimon, etc.
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  So you can get as mad as you want, and
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  you can throw a fit, have a temper tantruom and
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  think that your boy and Carol knows what he's talking about.
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  But ask yourselves why dudes like that are being platformed
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  while people that are telling the real story about the
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  CIA and the FBI being involved here and creating epstein
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  are being shadow banned and deplatformed, because that's what's happening
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  to real truth tellers. Do you really think if the
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  masade was this all knowing force, this all knowing power,
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  that they'd let this sort of narrative be out there.
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  Of course they wouldn't, they'd kill that shit on arrival.
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  But it helps the overall story, right, It's all part
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  of the cover, and that cover is being provided for
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  our very own intelligence agencies that are being dogwalked by
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  the financial sector. And if you were wondering why those
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  files haven't been turned over, that's one of the biggest
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  reasons why today we have an article from Law and
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  Crime and the headline public demands for transparency under LAWDJ
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  violating FOIA by refusing to release Jeffrey Epstein files. Conservative
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  Watchdog says this article was authored by Colin Kombucker. The
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  Trump administration is violating a Freedom of Information Act by
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  refusing to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein. A lawsuit
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  filed this week in Washington, DC alleges well, at least
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  Judicial Watch is taking a proactive approach. Is anybody going
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  to do the same about Stacey Plaskett? Anybody going to
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  show any sort of rage or remorse on the left
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  about that? Or No, We're just going to make pretend
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  that it's not happening. Seems to me that a lot
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  of people would just like to believe and make pretend
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  that Stacy Plasket, a sitting congressional delegate from the USVII,
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  is not being sued currently over her alleged role in
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  Jeffrey Epstein's criminal enterprise. Especially considering the big ass mouth
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  that Stacy Plaskett has, you'd think that that would be
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  a bigger story, But I guess not. I guess people
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  are way too busy talking some stupid bullshit about Tom
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  Hanks going to Jeffrey Epstein's island and eating children because
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  that really gets the story going. Huh. That really gets
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  things over the home and gets people to pay attention.
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  And at this point I'm convinced that all the people
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  out here talking that kind of shit are a part
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  of the sy op. At this point, if you aren't
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  on target, you're doing it willfully. Either that or you're
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  ignorant as fuck. There is no excuse not to have
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  the whole entire story here before you start piping off
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  about it and running your mouth. But then again, considering
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  the current environment where everybody with the Internet is an
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  expert on everything, I guess we shouldn't be too shocked.
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  And the allegations are coming from perhaps an unlikely source.
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  In a six page filing, conservative government accountability group Judicial
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  Watch accuses the US Department of Justice under Attorney General
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  Pound Bondi violating FOIA law on number of occasions over
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  the past few months concerning several distinct requests. Well, welcome
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  to the party, pal, That's all I can say. The
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  amount of times I've been stonewalled over the years covering
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  this case is almost hard to quantify. Just About every
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  time you turn around where you're trying to get some
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  official help, you're getting stonewalled, and the justification has always been, well,
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  this is an ongoing investigation, which is absolute horseshit. They're
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  trying to tell us that there's a decade's long investigation
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  and only two arrests. That's what they're trying to tell you.
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  The reality is what they're trying to do is bury
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  it under the veil of secrecy by saying that it's
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  national security or an ongoing investigation, when it's none of
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  those things. Simply put, the Justice Department needs to respond
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  to public demands for transparency under law and release the
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  Epstein files under FOIA. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said
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  in a press release announcing the litigation, and good for them,
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  like them or not, at least they're doing something here
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  to try and get the public this information. The lawsuit
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  stems from a February twenty first request to the DOJ's
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  Office of Information Policy, a subagency dedicated to facilitating Freedom
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  of Information Act requests and government compliance with the statute.
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  According to the lawsuit, that FOIA requests sought all records
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  of communication between Attorney General Bondie and any other individual
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  or entity of regarding any lists or other records depicting
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  the identities of clients or associates of Jeffrey Epstein. This
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  request includes, but is not limited to, all records related
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  to the department's compliance distribution handling, and the potential public
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  release of any such record or the information contained therein.
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  To help DOJ's staff understand the salience of the request,
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  Judicial Watch cided a Fox News article published the day
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  before which mused Trump's return to the Oval office came
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  with a prospect of the public finally being able to
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  see Epstein's long awaited black book amid inquiries into the
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  deceased financier, pedophile and sex trafficker. We already have the
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  black book. What are you guys even talking about? This
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  is what I mean. You got people that just interject
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  themselves into this conversation and they don't have the first
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  idea what they're talking about. Then all of a sudden,
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  they're platformed as some kind of expert breaking news. Dumbass,
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  you're not an expert. Okay, you don't even know what
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  you're fucking talking about. And it's very apparent at this
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  point who has read the core documents and who hasn't,
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  And if you haven't read them, kindly shut the fuck up,
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  because you have no idea what you're talking about. All
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  you're doing is regurgitating things that you heard other people
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  say or that you've read in an article. Well, where
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  do you think they get all of that information from?
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  What do you think they have a magical tree where
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  they just pull all this stuff out of No, they
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  go to the docket, they revocord documents, then they write
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  an article. So if you want to really be hip
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  to what's going on, you go to the source material. Right.
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  Not very difficult to understand how this works. But people
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  are lazy. Instead of putting in the time to get
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  themselves hip to what's going on, they'll just be afflicted
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  with Dunning Krueger syndrome and think they know everything about everything.
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  Those hopes, however, have not been born out, and neither
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  have any of the resulting Freedom of Information Act requests.
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  While the DOJ acknowledged the first request on February twenty seventh,
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  assigned it a tracking number, and cited unusual circumstances to
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  justify a ten day extension, Judicial Watch has received no
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  further response from the government. The lawsuit says, you're not
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  going to get any response. Bro. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter
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  who is in office. And for all the people out
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  there that were wringing their hands and telling me that
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  we were going to get all these files now that
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  Trump was elected, come on, man, really pipe dreamshit, Because
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  everybody who's been paying attention under dance that the real
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  bosses were never going to release this information and never
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  allow it to hit the public. Can you imagine there's
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  zero chance now whatever you do get, if you get anything,
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  will be completely sterilized and useless. They're never going to
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  release anything here, and they're never going to give you
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  the real story. The nonprofit watch dog had no luck
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  with follow up requests either. On February twenty seventh, Judicial
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  Watch submitted to identical requests to the DOJ's Criminal Division
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  and the FBI. According to the complaint, those requests asked
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  for all records related to Jeffrey Edward Epstein born in
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  New York City on January twentieth, nineteen fifty three, and
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  died on August tenth, twenty nineteen, in New York City.
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  Epstein died in federal custody while awaiting trial on sex
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  trafficking charges. His cause of death was officially ruled to suicide.
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  He had repeatedly been placed on suicide watch prior to dying.
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  Oh yeah, Colin Kombacher, run a little cover for your
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  buddies over at the DOJ. Huh. Epstein was not suicidal,
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  point blank period. And the reason that he was put
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  on suicide watch is because all high level inmates are
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  just like did He was just like Lann Maxwell. So
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  stop the bullshit, Colin Kombocker, mister law reporter. I mean,
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  you would think a dude that's talking about the law
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  would actually like understand it. Judicial Watch says that both
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  the February twenty seventh FOIA requests were acknowledged by the government,
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  but in different ways. In early March, the request from
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  the Criminal Division was deemed duplicative of an earlier request
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  submitted in twenty nineteen and closed out. According to the lawsuit,
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  the plaintiffs do not express any opinion on this development,
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  except to say the twenty nineteen requests was still being
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  processed because they have not yet received a determination. In
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  mid March, the request to the FBI was acknowledged, again,
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  pushed back ten days due to unusual circumstances, and again
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  seemingly shelved, with the plaintiffs having received no further response
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  from the FBI. According to the lawsuit, on February twenty eighth,
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  Judicial Watch up the ante with an FOIA request, explicitly
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  tying their inquiry to FBI Director Cash Battel. Patel is
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  a longtime Trump stalwart whose confirmation push included pledges of transparency,
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  specifically regarding Epstein. The Battel focused FOIA request seeks all
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  records of communication between Director Bateel and any other individual
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  or entity regarding any list or other records depicting the
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  identities of clients or associates of Jeffrey Epstein. This request includes,
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  but is not limited to, all records related to the
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  departments compilation, distribution, handling, and potential public release of any
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  such record or the information contained herein. Once Again, Judicial
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  Watch says the FBI acknowledged the request, gave itself an extension,
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  and then went radio silent because that's what they do.
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  There is no accountability, and anybody who thought mister cash
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  Bettel was going to restore that, well, you were out
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  to lunch. None of these people care about you, none
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  of them. Once Again, Judicial Watch says, the FBI acknowledged
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  the request, gave itself an extension, then went radio silent.
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  The lawsuit says the DOJ is in violation of Freedom
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  of Information Act and claims the irreparable harm has occurred and
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  will continue to occur unless defendant is compelled to comply
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  with foia's requirements. The complaint seeks the court order directing
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  the DOJ to conduct searches for any and all records
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  responsive to plaintiffs FOIA requests and to demonstrate that the
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  DOJ employed search methods reasonably likely to lead to the
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  discovery of records responsive to the requests. Judicial Watch also
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  wants the court to force the DOJ to release all
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  relevant records covered by the FOIA requests and or a
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  list outlining any exemptions claimed by the agency. To that end,
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  the plaintiffs are asking DOJ to be enjoined from continuing
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  to withhold any and all non exempt records responsive to
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  the requests. Let me translate that you're screwed. You're never
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  gonna get these records. We're never gonna see them, and
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  the DOJ is going to continue doing what the DOJ does,
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  and that is ignoring any request for information about Jeffrey Epstein.
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  All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this one.
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  All of the information that goes with this episode can
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