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The Epstein Files Were Released—The Truth Was Not · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. I don't think there is any doubt at
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  this point that there is a cover up underway, and
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  that we're only getting a portion of what the law
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  requires the government to turn over. And even though they
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  just released three million files, there's a lot that has
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  been left on the table. And if the DOJ thinks
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  this is going away and that people are just going
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  to shrug their shoulders and say, you know what, maybe
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  next time, they're crazy, because that's not going to happen.
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  And I've never seen people more fired up ever about
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  this subject. And I'm talking about people from all walks
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  of life, people that are gen Z all the way
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  up to my ninety three year old grandmother. So if
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  the DOJ is waiting for everybody to get tired of this,
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  to get exhausted, to get frustrated, and to move on,
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  they're making a big mistake. And I think that people
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  that work at the DOJ right now have to understand
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  that they're not always going to be in power, and
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  at some point there's going to be a reckoning, there's
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  going to be inquiries, and hopefully there's going to be
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  a special investigator, because that's what's needed. We need a
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  special prosecutor to come in and have the power to
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  really get things done, to investigate it the proper way,
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  because the DOJ has been given ample time and plenty
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  of space to do the right thing, and they failed
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  every step of the way. So is that any shock
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  that the Epstein dump has failed to quell the outrage?
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  Today's article is from The Guardian and the headline new
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  Epstein files failed to quell outrage as advocates claim documents
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  are being withheld. Well, that's not just a claim. It's
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  a fact, one hundred percent fact, that documents are being withheld,
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  and it's also a fact that, unfortunately, there's not much
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  that we can do about it. That's why it's important
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  that we keep the heat on and we make sure
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  that our elected officials understand that this topic, this problem,
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  isn't going away, and that until they deal with it,
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  it's going to be like in albatross hanging around their neck.
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  This article was authored by Victoria B. Kempis. The release
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  of about three million Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed
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  to quell outrage over Justice Department officials handling of the disclosures,
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  with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld. Yeah,
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  that's not a claim, that's a fact, one hundred percent effect.
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  And they're going to rely on the bullshit ass protections
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  they have of saying that it's an ongoing investigation, or
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  it's confidential due to national security, or whatever other bs
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  they can come up with. And that's why, at the
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  time of the law being drawn up, I said that
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  it should have some kind of function that holds people
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  accountable if they're not in compliance with what the law says.
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  Because we all knew the DOJ was going to play games.
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  They're going to do whatever they want because they know
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  that nobody's going to hold them accountable. Donald Trump's Department
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  of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by
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  December nineteenth under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. While the
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  Justice Department did release some documents on that date, last
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  week's disclosure came nearly six weeks after the deadline. And
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  it's while that the Justice Department, of all institutions, treats
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  a deadline like it's not mandatory. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche,
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  who served as Trump's criminal defense lawyer told reporters last
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  week that this disclosure marked the end of a very
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  comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to
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  the American people and compliance with the Act. Literally neither
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  of those things occurred. There's been no real transparency and
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  you miss the deadline. What are you even talking about
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  right now? Baby Billy Blanche? Has there ever been a
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  bigger moron in his position? I mean, he might be
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  the worst Deputy Attorney General in the history of this country.
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  And that's saying something. After submitting the final report to
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  Congress as required under the Act and publishing the written
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  justification for redactions in Federal Register, the Department's obligations under
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  the Act will be completed. Blanche said, in other words,
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  you're getting nothing else. In other words, nobody's going to prison,
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  nothing's going to happen, and we just got to deal
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  with the fact that the curtain's been open. Now you've
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  been given a look in the room, but there's nothing
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  you can do about it. Do they really think that
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  things are ever going to go back to the way
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  they were? Do they think that this is just going
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  to go away and people are gonna forget nobody trusts
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  the institutions, and certainly nobody trusts the DOJ, And unfortunately
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  for them, it's all their own fault. And the craziest
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  thing is, instead of trying to fix the problem, they
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  just keep doubling down. They just keep making things worse. Usually,
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  when you find yourself in a hole, you stop digging,
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  but not the Justice Department. No, Instead, they accelerated the process.
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  He also said that while the Justice Department had found
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  more than six million pages being identified as potentially responsive,
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  that was because we err on the side of over
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  collection of materials from various sources to best insure a
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  maximum transparency. He's literally lying again, and I'm getting real
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  tired of baby Billy Blanche lying to me. If this
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  guy is qualified to be the Deputy Attorney General, then
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  I'm qualified to fly one of those new stealth bombers.
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  The mist deadline and up to three million files that
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  remain unreleased have prompted criticism and calls for further disclosure
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  to answer how Epstein's sexually abused girls with impunity for
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  decades and landed a sweetheart plea deal about twenty years
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  ago that allowed them to avoid federal prosecution and nobody's
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  asking for too much here. People are asking for basic answers.
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  And you know what, if you idiots would have done
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  your job in the first place, we wouldn't even be here.
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  Epstein would have been behind bars in two thousand and
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  eight for decades, and you would have saved all those
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  girls who came after the abuse. But no, Instead, Jeffrey Epstein,
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  of all people, had to get the sweetheart deal of
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  a lifetime. But sure, we need no explanation about how
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  that occurred. The government continues to avoid accountability and has
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  argued that they are not responsible for Epstein's abuse of
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  hundreds of victims, said Jennifer Plotkin of Merson Law, which
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  represents more than thirty victims. The release of the files
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  proves the government failed the victims over and over again.
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  There needs to be a class action suit like there
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  was with Larry Nasser. That has to happen because the
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  government refuses to do the right thing. They're not going
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  to hold anybody accountable, and they're going to continue to
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  try and make it out like there's nothing that can
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  happen here, like there's no ramifications for the people who
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  are involved in this. And I say that's bullshit. Every
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  single person who was involved in the NPA, from the
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  state level to the federal level, should be held accountable.
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  And if it's found that you did anything untowards you
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  should have your pension rip from you. And if there's
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  some kind of indictment that you can be hit with,
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  then that should happen too. But the big problem here
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  is there was never a real investigation, and that's why
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  we keep coming back to where we are. You can't
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  push something under the rug for decades and then when
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  it's exposed say, hey, you know this is old. We
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  don't need to worry about this now, bitch. We do,
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  and you should have been worried about it while it
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  was happening. Doctor Ann Oliviaris, a woman's rights attorney and
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  founder of law firm McAllister. Oliviaris said the disclosures have
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  not lifted the veil on Epstein's ongoing evasion of justice
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  until his twenty nineteen prosecution. We have plenty of files
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  on Epstein's depravity. What we're missing are the files on
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  his immunity. She said. The question isn't just who was
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  on Epstein's plane, but who made the phone call that
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  stopped the two thousand and seven investigation. Bingo, that's the
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  real question. Don't get caught up on the salaciousness. I've
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  told you that a million times. That's a side quest.
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  The biggest issue here is this systemic corruption and the
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  systemic protection that he's had for decades. That infrastructure needs
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  to be dismantled, and the people that were involved, they
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  need to be held accountable. A disclosure is not complete
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  if it tells us something about the criminal but nothing
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  about the shield. Olivieris also pointed to the dramatic difference
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  between how many documents were identified as possibly pertinent versus
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  how many were published. The DOJ initially identified over six
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  million pages of interest, yet we have seen roughly half
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  of that. They claim the rest are duplicates or non responsive.
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  Olivieris said, as an attorney who has spent my career
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  fighting for transparency in cases of systemic abuse, I'm suspicious
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  of this because the determination of what is responsive is
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  made by the party holding the documents. It's right for
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  tactical misuse. And then we get back to the trust issue.
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  Do you trust Paumbondi, Do you trust Todd Blanche? Do
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  you trust cash Ptel? Do you trust Donald Trump. I
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  most certainly don't, so I'm not giving you the benefit
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  of the doubt. You haven't earned it. In fact, you've
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  earned the opposite. I distrust everything you have to say,
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  because you've proven yourselves to be liars time and time again.
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  And unfortunately that trend is not only continuing here, it accelerates.
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  News website Radar Online, which filed a lawsuit more than
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  eight years ago after the FBI fail to disclose Epstein
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  files under an April twenty seventeen public Records Foyer request,
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  also said last week's disclosure was insufficient. In addition to
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  the many questionable redactions the public has identified, the DOJ
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  has acknowledged that millions of Epstein's records were fully withheld.
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  A spokesperson for Radar said, we have asked the Second
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  Circuit Court of Appeals to send our foya came back
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  to the District court so we can directly challenge any
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  efforts to undermine transparency. Well, good for them, and kudos
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  to Radar for taking the fight to the DOJ. Jennifer Freeman,
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  the Marshal Law Firm attorney representing Maria Farmer, has said
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  these disclosures have been a mess from the start, fill
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  with missdeadlines and have fisted redactions while exposing the identities
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  of survivors. And there's no doubt that that's happening. I've
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  pointed that out numerous times now. They really missed the boat.
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  If the job was to get redactions, right, boy, they
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  fucked up. This fight isn't over. We won't allow the
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  federal government to simply dump a couple million documents wash
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  their hands on one of the largest law enforcement failures
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  in US history. Freeman said, at this point, we have
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  more questions than answers. Where's the rest of Maria Farmer's
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  FBI file? Where are the records of complaints that so
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  many other women made to the FBI, and how the
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  FBI investigated those complaints? And why is the DOJ hiding
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  the names of perpetrators while exposing survivors. Top Democrats, meanwhile,
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  have slammed the handling of these files, as Blanche doubled
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  down on the Justice Department's work, with him telling ABC
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  News on Sunday, this review is over. Imagine imagine having
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  the audacity to look the American people in the face
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  and tell us that we're witnessing a full blown cover up.
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  Congressman Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrats said on CNN's State
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  of the Union, and YO, I really don't like to
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  agree with Jamie Raskin, but he's not wrong. He's telling
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  them the truth. This is a cover up. I called
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  it out the day it started and will continue to
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  call it out until it ends. They've said there are
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  six million potentially responsive documents there. You released three million
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  with more than ten thousand redactions. What about the other
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  three million files? Seid Raskin, who's a ranking member of
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  the House Judiciary Committee. We're just getting the dribs and
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  drabs of information coming out, the stuff they want us
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  to see. The Guardian contacted the DOJ for a comment
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  about criticism. A DOJ official said in an email, this
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  is a tired narrative. Just because you wish something to
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  be true doesn't mean it is. The Department produced more
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  than three and a half million pages in compliance with
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  the law and is disclosed to the public and to
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  Congress what items were not responsive in accordance with the Act.
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  They're so confrontational with everything they do, whether it's ice
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  operations or whether it's talking to the American public like
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  this that needs to end. They need to understand they
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  work for us, not for MAGA, not for Donald Trump,
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  for the American people as a whole. And it's going
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  to be very interesting to watch all this hubris turn
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  into fear when the reckoning comes, because I'm telling you
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  right now, there's going to be questions that need to
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  be answered, and if the Republicans lose the House and
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  Senate during midterms, yo, it's going to be a Maelstrom.
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  And guess what, I'm here for it. The official also said,
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  I assume all members of Congress read the actual language
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  before voting on it, but if not, our press release
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  and letter to Congress clearly spells this out. So in
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  other words, what they're saying is, fuck you. You didn't
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  put any kind of teeth in the law, so we're
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  not going to follow the law, and then we'll throw
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  the law back in your face. That's what they're saying,
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  and they're saying it with impunity. They really believe that
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  this is the end of it, that they're not going
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  to have to answer any more questions about Epstein and
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  their failure to comply with the law. But they're making
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  a big mistake because nobody's buying their nonsense, and we're
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  certainly not moving on. All of the information that goes
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