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Substantial Progress, No Timeline”: DOJ Explains Epstein Files Delay to Federal Judges · 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. In our previous episode, we took a look
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at the latest letter sent by the DOJ to Judge
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Engelmeyer and to Judge Berman. Well, in this episode, we're
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going to talk a little bit about that letter and
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about how it misses the mark once again, because I
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don't care how many letters they send. I don't care
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how much rhetoric we hear. The fact is that the
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files haven't been released, and they can complain all they
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want about how much work they have, but the truth
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is they've known about this for months. I mean, Pambondi,
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you herself said that she had truckloads of evidence, truckloads
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of documents being moved. Pambondi you herself said that the
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Epstein list was on our desk. But sure, let's believe her. Now.
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I don't know about you, but I don't believe anything
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that the DJ has to say, never mind just about Epstein,
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but about anything in general this point. And how could
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you Even when you see something with your own eyes,
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they try and tell you that's not what you saw.
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And even worse, there's a lot of people that just
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go along with it and ridicule people for going against
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the narrative when the narrative is obviously BS and I
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think that the Epstein story encapsulates that better than any
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story in history, because it's rather obvious that there's a
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cover up underway. But you know what else is obvious.
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It's obvious that there's nothing we can do to stop
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the cover up or to hold anyone accountable. Today's article
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is from CBS News and the headline DOJ says it
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will finish releasing Epstein files in the near term, but
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doesn't offer a specific date. Yeah, because you know those
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deadlines arbitrary. I guess April fifteenth is an arbitrary date
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now right. Hey, look, I couldn't get all my paperwork together.
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I was overwhelmed, and I was covering the Epstein case,
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and it just took me to much time to get
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my taxes together because I was so busy. Do you
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think that would work? How do you think that would
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go if I tried that excuse after not paying taxes?
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Pretty sure it wouldn't work out for your boy. Pretty
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sure I wouldn't end up at Camp Brian, especially with
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my fat yap they put me at like ADX Florence
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or some shit, or maybe they'll just say the hell
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with it and you know, deport me to like El
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Salvador or something. A federal law required the Justice Department
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to release its massive trove of records on Epstein by
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mid December. The Department has released over one hundred thousand
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pages so far, but it has acknowledged that the vast
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majority of documents that may relate to Epstein still haven't
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been made public, arguing more time is needed to ensure
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the files are properly redacted to protect the identities of
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survivors of Epstein's abuse. What they mean is to make
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sure they protect their donors, to make sure they protect
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everybody that was enabling Jeffrey Epstein that's still around paying
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the bills. That's what they really mean. And that's why
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the letter that Pambondi sent is just morebs. She has
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no intention of following through with any of this, and
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she has no intention of following the law. They're trying
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to drag it out. They're trying to make it so complicated,
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so complex, that people just throw up their hands and say,
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you know what, enough is enough. I'm moving on to
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something else that has always been the goal when it
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comes to Epstein, and with disaster after disaster, it really
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makes their job a lot easier, right, because the focus
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keeps moving, and what they hope for is that people
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end up losing interest here and stop demanding that we
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have transparency due to fatigue and due to the fact
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that there's no ramifications or no punishment for the people
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that are impeding the release. Attorney General Pambondy and other
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top Justice Department officials updated the judges in Epstein and
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is convicted associate associate you mean co conspirator, you mean
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fellow child abuser, you mean all around scusbag and bipedal serpent,
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That's what you mean, right, Glenn Maxwell case on their
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efforts to scour through the documents and a letter sent
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on Tuesday, and that was the letter that we just
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looked at in the previous episode. And like usual, the
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letter really didn't explain anything, just gave us more excuses
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for why they're not doing their job. Oh, the job
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is so difficult. We have so much work ahead of us.
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Imagine if retail employees said that during Christmas time, Oh,
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we have way too much work ahead of us. We
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can't get it all out we can't get all the
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product out on the shelf. Do you think that would
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go over well with corporate? Of course it wouldn't, and
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it shouldn't go over well with us either. They said
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they have made substantial progress, with hundreds of department employees
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manually reviewing millions of pages of records and in some
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cases conducting electronic name searches to find and redact hundreds
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of potential victim my identities. What they really mean is
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to find their friends' names to redact those. That's what
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they're really doing. I mean, I've been through multiple documents
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now where they didn't redact anyone's name as far as
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survivors go. But they sure redacted co conspirators. They sure
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redacted Sarah Kellen's name, even though she was mentioned over
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eighty times during the Glenn Maxwell trial in open court.
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But sure, let's redact that name too. Let's redact Adriana Ross,
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let's redact Nadia Marsenkova, Let's redact Leslie Groff and Darren
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Van Dyke and Richard Kahn. I mean, what are we
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even doing here? The Department currently expects that it will
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complete these processes with respect to substantially all of the
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potentially responsive documents, including publication to the Epstein Library website.
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In the near term, said the letter. The near term
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is it is that government speak for when we get
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around to it. What does that even mean? You can't
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give us a date? Considering your over a month in default,
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I would think that you'd have at least an ETA
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for us, But I guess not. I guess it's gonna
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be when it's gonna be. And everybody should just shut
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up and understand that the DOJ is the real power
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in the country now. There's no oversight, nobody can tell
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them what to do. They'll just do whatever they want.
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That's what the letter said. That's what she was telling
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us in that letter. And then the courts, well they
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told us that they don't have any standing to step
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in and force the DOJ to do anything yet, so
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here we are, once again stuck in neutral, spin in
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our wheels and going nowhere. The Justice Department said it's
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not able to provide a specific date at this time
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and warned it may need to make additional efforts to
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ensure the protection a victim identifying information. Such nonsense, God Lee,
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I mean, how many times do we have to prove
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that they're just beesing us. Earlier this month, the Justice
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Department told a judge it had released twelve thousand, two
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hundred and eighty five documents so far, totally one hundred
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and twenty five thousand, five hundred and seventy five pages,
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but more than two million documents were still in various
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stages of review, meaning it had reviewed less than one
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percent of its total records on Epstein. Some of those
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still unreviewed documents maybe duplicates, the Department cautioned, So what
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you're telling me is you don't know you're ass from
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your elbow. Nobody has the documents lined up, nobody was
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going through them. How's that the case? I thought there
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was no more investigation to be had. I thought there
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was no co conspirators, nobody else involved, and it was
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a closed and shut case. Well, I guess not. I
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guess that was just another lie by Pam Bondi, the DOJ,
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and the Trump administration. The Epstein Files Transparency Act, passed
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in mid November, gave the Justice Department thirty days to
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release files on Epstein and Maxwell. That includes decades old
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records from the earliest investigation into Epstein. Documents from Epstein
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and Maxwell's twenty nineteen and twenty twenty sex trafficking cases
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and files related to Epstein's death by suicide while in
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pre trial custody. Boy, he says that with all kinds
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of confidence, huh pre trial suicide. Oh he committed suicide.
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Sure he did. What proof do you have exactly? Oh?
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What the DOJ told you? That's cool? I mean, I
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guess if you want to believe them, go ahead me. Personally,
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I don't believe a word they say. And when we're
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talking about Jeffrey Epstein's death, I definitely don't believe anything
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they say. The law allows the government to redact the
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files under limited circumstances, including to take out victims' names.
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The judge in the Maxwell case has also required the
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top federal prosecutor in Manhattan to personally certify that any
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grand jury materials that are released have been rigorously reviewed
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to take out victim identities. And of course they tried
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to blame the judges, right, Oh, it's the judge's fault.
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They won't let anything out. No, it's your fault. Not
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one word about the NPA, not one single word. I
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wonder why. And the most ridiculous thing about all of
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it is that they could walk over to whatever file
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room they have right now or pull up the file
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on the computer, and they could get rid of the
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NPA because Jeffrey Epstein was never in compliance with the NPA,
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So the NPA should be null and void. And that's
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something they can do right now without any courts, without
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anybody's input but their own. But yet here we are
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once again screwing around. Some lawmakers have sharply criticized the
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Justice Department for the pace of its review, given that
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Congress required the files to be made public by December twelfth. Well,
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that sounds like something they should be doing. Huh. All
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I hear about is how Congress has oversighted this. That
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the other thing sure seems to me like they don't
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have oversight of a goddamn thing of ice, not oversight
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of the Epstein files. What do they have oversight of?
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Democratic Representative Rocanna of California and Republican Representative Thomas Massey
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of Kentucky, who co sponsored the Epstein files bill, suggested
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this month that the judge in Maxwell's case appoint an
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independent special master to ensure the files are made public,
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and that was turned down. By the judge because he
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says that Rocana and Thomas Massey have no standing to
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file that suit. They're not interveners in this lawsuit, and
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according to the law, they have to be that if
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they want to be involved. The Department of Justice is
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openly defying the law by refusing to release the full
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Epstein files, Conna said in a statement. Millions of files
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are being kept from the public. Massey argued that the
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Justice Department has shown it cannot be trusted with making
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the disclosures required by law. The Justice Department pushed back,
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arguing the law does not give ConA and Massey the
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right to seek relief in court. The Department is defended
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its handling of the files, saying careful manual review is
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needed to protect victims. That is such bs once again
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using the survivors as a prop. If they really cared
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about the survivors, don't you think they'd have them in
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the White House. Don't you think Donald Trump would have
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met with them. Don't you think that people would have
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sat down with them and listened to what they have
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to say. They didn't do that, though, did they. They
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sure ran over to Glenn Maxwell's pad over in Florida
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and decided to give her the white love treatment instead.
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Ask yourself why the judge overseeing the Maxwell case ruled
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last week that he didn't have authority to oversee the
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Justice Department's compliance with the law. He added that nothing
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is stopping Conna and Massey from filing a separate lawsuit
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against the government, and said the two lawmakers raised legitimate
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concerns about whether the DOJ is faithfully complying with federal law. Well,
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I'm certainly not a judge, but I can tell you
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right now they're not complying. And every single thing that
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they're doing when it comes to these files is backwards.
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And the sad truth is Congress, who is supposed to
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have oversight here, really has none. What can they do
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to force the DOJ to release the files, Nothing, at
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least right now. So what they're going to have to
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do is whip something up, whether that's a you know,
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new lawsuit, whether that's an amendment to the law, whatever
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it might be. They're going to have to put some
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teeth with this law because if not, the DOJ is
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going to continue to sidestep all of its requirements and
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do whatever it wants. And unfortunately, until somebody steps in
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a higher power and forces their hand. They're going to
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continue to slow walk these documents as long as they can,
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so my question is how long are you going to
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