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Millions Spent, Survivors Exposed: The DOJ’s Failed Epstein File Sanitization Operation · 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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Epstein Chronicles. The FBI and the DOJ want us to
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believe they blew nearly a million taxpayer dollars on overtime
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so they could carefully sanitize the Epstein files and make
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sure nothing inappropriate slipped through. That's the official line. That's
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the boy scout badge they're trying to slap on their
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sweaty blazers. And yet, somehow, in their grand crusade to
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protect the powerful, the only mistake they made was accidentally
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exposing the names of dozens of survivors. Well, isn't that interesting?
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So many layers of redaction, so many black bars, that
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look like a sharpie massacre. But the only thing they
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missed was the identity of the victims. A coincidence so convenient. Yeah,
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practically lights fireworks spelling out cover up across the sky.
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I mean, did they expect us to go like, Wow,
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great job, guys, A million dollars well spent, Like we're
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impressed that the same agencies who can track an iPhone
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two within three inches using a bird flo arding in
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Wisconsin can't manage to keep survivor's names private like these
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agencies don't have software that can find a suspicious wire
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transfer across five continents in ten seconds, but suddenly they
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can't redact a name properly. They can run surveillance satellites
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and spy on every text message your grandma sends about
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meat loaf night, but when it comes to protecting vulnerable survivors, whoops, butterfingers.
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These clowns want us to swallow the idea that this
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was an accidental oversight, that in all of the genius
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level redaction work, they somehow forgot to black out the
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only names that actually mattered to protect. We're supposed to say,
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oh darn, what a silly little clerical mix up, as
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if they misplaced the post it note not exposed real
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human beings who already suffered unimaginable trauma. Meanwhile, every billionaire
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hedge fund goul and every political heavy hitter who flew
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around the world with epstein still has their name wrapped
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up tighter than a CIA black site. And they really
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want us to believe that they were doing honest work.
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They want us to nod and say, well, you know,
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redaction science is hard. No, shut your yap. These people
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didn't trip on a cable and fall face first into
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a keyboard. This wasn't a clerical loopsie. This was targeted, strategic,
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intentional misdirection. They did their job perfectly where they cared.
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They had no problems protecting the powerful, They had no
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problem protecting predators. They protected the fucking system. And look,
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let's be real. If someone had accidentally revealed the name
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of a senator, a tech billionaire, or a Wall Street banker,
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there would already be a congressional hearing stacked to the ceiling.
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There would be emergency press conferences. People would be fired
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and marched out of the Federal building before lunch. But
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when survivors get exposed, when the people who have been ignored, discredited,
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and re traumatized for decades get violated again by the
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same institutions that failed them, the official response is basically
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a whoopsie daisy. Anyway, have a great Thanksgiving. And of
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course they had the nerve to announce this right before
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Thanksgiving too, like they lined up behind the podium and said,
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Happy Turkey Day, America. We fucked up again, but don't worry,
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it's just the victims, No harm, no foul. As if
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the timing wasn't deliberate, as if they didn't do it
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right before a holiday, on purpose, banking on everyone being
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too busy stuffing their faces and screaming at their in
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laws to pay attention to the fact that the people
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tasked with delivering justice are actively ripping the wings off
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the butterfly. And it should offend every functioning brain cell
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in this country that these agencies who left to brag
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about integrity are literally acting like a Reno nine to
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one one reboot, a bunch of cosplay cops tripping over
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their feet while the real criminals are drinking yacht size
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Margarita's in New York. This is what happens when you
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put clowns in charge of a funeral. Everything becomes a joke.
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They want us to believe them. They genuinely think we're
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stupid enough to believe that. The only error in the
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million dollar redaction process was revealing survivor names. Not the
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names of the political donors, not the names of the billionaires,
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not the names of celebrities, or the academics or the
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finance demons who use Depstein like a concierge service for depravity.
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Just the survivors, just the people with no shield, no power,
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no security team, and yo, it takes real dedication to
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be this corrupt and pretend to be this incompetent. They
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stand there with straight faces, insisting they're doing everything possible
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to bring transparency while literally burning the truth like confidential trash.
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They talk about accountability like it's some theoretical college concept
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nobody has ever tried before, So let's just stop pretending. Okay,
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we're watching a cover up on fold and real time,
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live television, no commercial breaks. You can practically hear the
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paper shredder is warming up in the basement. You can
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smell the bleach being poured over evidence. You can hear
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the champagne corks being popped every time another name gets
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buried deeper than the Mariana Trench. And people wonder why
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nobody trusts institutions anymore. People ask why are Americans so cynical?
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Because every time justice knocks on the door, someone from
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the FBI pretends they're not home and tells the press
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they're taking a nap. Because every time survivors think they
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might finally get a piece of peace, these agencies slap
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them across the face again and say, oops, our bad.
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Why don't you try therapy. If you're not furious about this,
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it's because you're either consciously ignoring the truth or you're
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on the payroll. There is no middle ground left. Ignorance
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is an innocence anymore. It's participation. Silence isn't neutral, it's collaboration.
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Pretending you don't see what's right in front of you
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doesn't make you wise, it makes you complicit. And every
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single person who still believes this was just a mistake
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needs the tattoo gullible on their forehead. These agencies didn't
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accidentally protect the elite. They didn't act a day erase
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every trace of institutional guilt. They didn't accidentally expose the survivors.
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They made choices, very specific choices, calculated ones. They're showing
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you exactly who they work for, and it isn't you,
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It isn't the survivors, and it sure as hell isn't
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the truth. They work for the people who write the
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checks that are big enough to erase history. And the
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sickest part, they expect gratitude. They think they deserve applause
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for releasing anything at all. They want credit for letting
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us see the crumbs they flick off the table while
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guarding the cake like attack wolves. They genuinely think we
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should be thankful for the scraps. Well, here's the truth.
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We don't owe them respect, We don't owe them thanks,
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We don't owe them patients. We owe the survivors a
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hell of a lot more than an apology and a
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box or edactions. And if there was ever a question
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about whether there is a cover up happening, this is
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your flashing neon billboard. If you can't see it by now,
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there's no explaining it to you. You've already chosen your side,
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because the rest of us have eyes, and what we're
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seeing is a system actively protecting predators and punishing victims,
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a system that is terrified of light, a system that
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is cracking under its own rotten beams. Today's article is
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from ABC News and the headline law firms representing alleged
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Epstein victims send scathing letter over DOJ document release. This
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article was authored by Peter Charlembau and James Hill. When
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the House Oversight Committee released a trove of files and
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emails from the Epstein estate earlier this month, alleged victims
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of the convicted sex offender responded with widespread panic after
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learning the documents included dozens of unredacted victim names. Prominent
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attorneys for Epstein victims told a federal judge this week
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that should never happen, Like, wasn't that they're a big
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talking point. Oh, well, we want to make sure that
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the survivors are protected. Yeah. Sure. You want to make
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sure that Glenn Dubin's protected. You want to make sure
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that Leon Black's protected. You want to make sure that
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Donald Trump is protected. You don't give a fuck about
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the survivors. Stop it. I thought the government had promised
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to redact our names and identifying material. I don't understand
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how this is happening again, one alleged victim told attorneys
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Bradley Edwards and Britney Henderson with the Edward Henderson Law firm.
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According to a court filing on Wednesday, this type of
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negligence by the government to a survivor is just unable
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to comprehend. It is just impossible. Another alleged victim said,
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according to the filing, I don't understand how this is possible.
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I've been unable to mentally and emotionally function or sleep. Yet,
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another alleged victim wrote, per the court filing, And at
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this point, are we really going to call them alleged?
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Not when it comes to Epstein. Not for me, now
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the other people. Sure, if we're talking about you know,
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Leon Black or Dubin whatever. Sure, alleged is fine. There
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hasn't been an investigation. But the vast majority of these girls,
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they all got payouts from the compensation fund, They got
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payouts from Epstein himself. So what does that tell you,
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is that alleged If I'm paying you out a fat
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ass bag after you say that I assaulted you, we're
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gonna go with that it happened, Okay, especially when we're
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talking about somebody who's already been convicted of these same crimes.
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I don't think that's too big of a leap to make.
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With the Justice Department now facing a December nineteenth deadline
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to release hundreds of thousands of Epstein files as required
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by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Edwards Henderson attorneys
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are calling on a federal judge to order the DOJ
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to improve their review policy to prevent another release of
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potentially sensitive information about alleged victims. And it's pretty convenient, huh,
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that every time there's a mistake, it falls on the
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side of the predator, falls on the side of the
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people that did the hurting, never on the side of
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the survivor. Right. I wonder why these women are not
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political pawns. They are mothers, wives, and daughters. These are
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women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein in some instances
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by others, and who have already had their rights violated
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in the past by the government. The attorneys wrote in
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the filing to US District Court Judge Richard Berman. They
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are human beings who have the right to be treated
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with dignity and respect, and to feel safe and protected
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by our country, which has felled them time and time again.
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Is that too much of an ask? I mean, for real,
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are people asking for too much? When we're asking for
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actual justice, or at the very least, we're asking for
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a robust investigation. That's all anybody's ever asked for. But no,
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every time you turn around, there's another boot on the
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throat of justice, there's another shitty ass move by the
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DOJ or the court or somebody else involved. It's always
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the same story, isn't it always the same ass story?
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And if you don't see the pattern at this point,
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I don't even know what to tell you. According to
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the attorney's filing, the House Oversight release included the unredacted
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names and personal information of dozens of victims, including women
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who were miners at the time of their abuse. One
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document alone contained twenty eight unredacted names of alleged victim.
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The attorneys wrote. Based on the scope of the issue,
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the attorney said that they believe the DOJ either does
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not know the identities of all the victims of Jeffrey
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Epstein and thus cannot apply proper redactions to the files,
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or is intentionally failing to protect victims from public exposure.
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I'm going to go at door number two. They know
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exactly who the people are, and they've chosen to protect
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people and out others. This is how they roll, This
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is what they do, especially when you have a weaponized
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justice department the way we do right now. I mean,
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has there ever been a more incompetent justice department than
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the one we're seeing right now? I don't think so.
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While we will detail the various excuses that the court
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will no doubt be provided, this is absolutely unacceptable and
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a program that must be rectified prior to the public
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release of any additional documents, the Edward Henderson's attorneys wrote.
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The filing further noted that the DOJ publicly acknowledged in
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July that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Based on
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that statement, the attorney's asked in the filing that the
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court confirm with the DOJ that, prior to submitting the
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files to the House Oversight Committee, it undertook the onerous
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and necessary task of redacting all one thousand plus victim
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names that it had in its possession. God forbid, they
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do the right thing and a million dollars. They've spent
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a million dollars to do this, and they still fuck
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it up. Like many of you out there, I've spent
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most of my life in corporate America, and I'll tell
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you right now, if you fuck up like this, you're
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getting canned. There's no two ways about it. A million
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dollars spent and nothing coming back on the back end.
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And if this was not intentional, then this is being
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done by a bunch of people who are incompetent. And
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neither of those options gives me very much comfort on
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that point. At inquiry, the court will learn the DOJ's
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redaction process and its process efforts are so irreconcilable with
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a number of victims that has publicly acknowledged that, when
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confronted with a discrepancy, its responsibile end somewhere between incoherent mumbling,
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non sequitur and outright misrepresentation. The attorneys wrote, one hundred percent,
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like usual, They're going to try and dog walk us
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like they always do. The attorneys also allege the filing
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that the victims have been unable to contact the Department
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of Justice to prevent the same thing from happening again,
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despite numerous pleas for assistance. There is one singular entity
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that the victims cannot seem to find a way to
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engage and which has been the primary violator of the
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victims identity protection thus far, the Department of Justice. They wrote, so,
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while Glane Maxwell is eating Chick fil A and doing
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downward Dog, the survivors can't even get anyone on the
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Justice Department on the phone. I mean, you would think
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that Todd Baby Billy Blanche would want to talk to
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the survivors, right, But no, because it was never about justice.
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It was never about finding out what went down. It
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was about making sure that their homie Gleanne Maxwell got
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preferential treatment. That's what it came down to. With the
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DOJ already possessing hundreds of thousands of Epstein documents, The
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attorneys also cast out about the Trump administration's intention and
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seeking out separate grand jury material. The DOJ has asked
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judges in New York and Florida to authorize the release
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of grand jury transcripts and exhibits from the prosecution of
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Epstein and Maxwell, information that is typically not made public.
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Before the passage of the Epstein's File Transparency Act, the
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DOJ made similar requests that were denied by the judges,
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and that was all by design. I'm not gonna rehash
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all of that, but they did that on purpose. They
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wanted to say, look, we're doing something, when in reality
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they ain't doing shit. This incredibly small and largely irrelevant
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subset of grand jury material seems to serve as nothing
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more than the DOJ's perpetual distraction from providing the American
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people with the full transparency as it relates to Jeffrey
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Epstein while protecting the victims. The filing states. The Edward
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Tenderson attorneys asked Judge Berman to order the Department of
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Justice to clarify what documents they plan to release and
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the process for redacting them. He also requested the ability
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to confer with the DOJ to ensure that a complete
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list of victims' names is used in the redaction process.
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Is that too much to ask for? Are they asking
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the Department of Justice to do more than they should?
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Of course they're not. Judge Berman responded to the letter
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Wednesday by ordering the Department of Justice by noon Monday,
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December first, to provide a detailed description of the material
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they seek to release and a detailed description of the
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privacy process, including any redactions the government seeks to employ
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to protect the rights of Epstein victims. In a separate
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filing on Wednesday, US Attorney J. Clayton said his office
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would confer with counsel for known victims concerning names and
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terms for withholding and redactions. Probably should have done that earlier, HANJ. Clayton,
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Mister Apollo Global. Clayton also clarified the breadth of the
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documents the Department of Justice seeks to release, including notes
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from witness interviews, search warrant applications, financial and travel records,
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grand jury subpoena returns, school records, materials from the Epstein
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estate and law enforcement records. Look, guys, the truth is
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this is what the system actually looks like when the
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curtain rips open. A machine designed to grind the powerless
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into us while polishing the boots of the people who
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built it. A machine that still can't admit what it is,
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even while standing ankled deep in its own sewage. They
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didn't protect survivors because they never intended to. They didn't
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make a mistake. They followed priority. The rich stay unnamed,
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and the broken get broken again. It's the same formula
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that has run this country for decades, maybe longer, and
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they're not even embarrassed enough to hide it well anymore.
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So let them issue their statements, let them shrug and
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call it a clerical error, Let them smile in front
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of the cameras and pretend they care. Unfortunately for them,
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everyone already knows the truth. The predators are protected, the
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victims are disposable, and the institutions that swear they stand
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for justice are nothing more than pr departments for the powerful.
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And there's nothing spiritual or heroic that is waiting to
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swoop in and fix this. This is the world exactly
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as it is This is what they think of the
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people they failed. This is the level of contempt they
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operate with, and the only thing they're sorry about is
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that they got caught being this obvious. All of the
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