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Three Million Pages Released—and Millions Still Withheld (6/19/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. Over the past year or so, we've talked
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about pretty much nothing else but Jeffrey Epstein, and while
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that obviously is going to remain the focus, but with
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so much crazy stuff going on in the United States
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and around the world, I think that it's important that
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we touch on some of these other topics. And I
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think that one of the topics that we should definitely
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touch on is the Grooming Gang inquiry that has just
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been released by Rupert Lowe over in the UK. And look,
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I know that there's people out there who have their
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doubts about what this investigation found, but I think it's
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very important that we have all the facts, have all
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the details, and I think it's important that all of
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you have all those details word for word. And that
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report is two hundred and nineteen pages, So we're going
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to dive into it the same way we do with
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all the other core documents, and then, like everything else,
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it'll be up to you to decide what you think
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after you have the facts or the allegations presented to you.
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But I think it's pretty interesting that there are people
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out there that refuse to believe this report, And look,
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I don't know if the numbers are correct. I don't
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know if that many women and girls have been abused
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over in the UK. But now that the allegation has
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been made, I think we need to dive into it
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and take a look, because if what that report is
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saying is true, we're talking about one of the most dastardly, disgusting,
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depraved rings of all time and on a level of
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abuse far larger than anything Epstein could have ever dreamed of.
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So if what that report is saying is true, then
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that topic certainly dovetails into what we're talking about all
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the time when it comes to systemic breakdowns. So I
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think that the topic is important, and I think it's
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a topic that we need to dive into, and starting
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later on today, that's exactly what we're gonna do, and
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we're gonna look at it with the same eye that
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we look at the allegations made against Jeffrey Epstein and
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his trafficking ring. If you go into something and you
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automatically think that there's no there there, then a lot
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of times that's where your confirmation bias is going to
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take you. So I'm coming into this completely neutral as
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far as I don't know one way or the other
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what's true or not, but I do know this. I
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have some people over in the UK that I really
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trust who believe that this is true. And if that
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is the case, this is one of the biggest cover
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ups in the history of the whole entire world. And
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keep in mind the UK is already dealing with the
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situation with Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelsson. So things you're
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spinning out of control over in the UK pretty quickly,
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and we're going to do our best to follow along. Now,
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one thing I will say is I'm not some expert
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on English politics, but what we're going to do is
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call balls and strikes, because in my opinion, if you
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believe the Epstein survivors, then at the very least you
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should be listening to what these survivors have to say
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as well. Now that doesn't mean you have to believe
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people blindly, but I see a lot of people that
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dismiss this stuff out of hand and act like it's
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just politics. And I'm sure that politics does play a part,
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But to write all of this off as politics, to
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write it all off is fake or overblown, because it
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doesn't fit with your political view, that's bad news, and
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anybody doing that is enabling this kind of bullshit. So
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if you're somebody that says they care about the Epstein survivors,
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then I would hope that that kind of empathy moves
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over to anyone who has suffered the way that these
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people have allegedly suffered. And I think that the women
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who are making these accusations over in the UK deserve
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to be heard and listen to the same way the
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Epstein survivors are. And that's exactly what we're going to
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do around these parts. All right now, With that said,
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why don't we turn our focus right now to the
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topic at hand. And the topic at hand, obviously, is
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Jeffrey Epstein's bitch ass and the Trump administrations cover up.
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To do that, we have an article from CBS News
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and the headline What's Missing from the Epstein Files. Questions
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persist about unexplained redactions, missing documents, and email gaps. This
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article was authored by Daniel Rutnik. When the Department of
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Justice released more than three million pages of documents under
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the Epstein Files Transparency Act, survivors, advocates and lawmakers quickly
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raised questions about an apparent discrepancy. The DOJ had said
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it collected more than six million pages of material during
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its investigation, but was only released in half that number. Oh,
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you know, duplicative national security stuff you're not allowed to see. Meanwhile,
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that's not what the law is called for. The Justice
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Department tells CBS News it's released every document required by
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the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and maintains that those unreleased
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three million documents were either duplicative, unrelated to EPSTEIN, or
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protected by legal privilege. Who believes that, Like, how can
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you have a valid investigation when the people who are
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in charge of that investigation are doing everything in their
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power to make sure it goes nowhere? And if there's
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ever been a time for a special council, now is it?
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But concerns persist about evidence that important documents are still
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being withheld. At the same time, the Government Accountability Office
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recently announced it was launching an investigation into the way
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documents that were released had information blacked out. That move
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comes at the request of several members of Congress. Representative
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Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee,
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says that if there are duplicates. Okay, that's fine, let's
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see them. As I think that the people need to
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understand is we're not sure what's in the three million,
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and I think that's a big problem. That wasn't what
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was called for by the law. That wasn't what was required.
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All these redactions that we see in these emails that
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are protecting people's names, etc. That aren't survivors, that's not
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what the law called for. The whole last point of
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this is accountability, and how can anyone be held accountable
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if nobody knows their name. CBS News has analyzed the
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archive not only for what has been disclosed, but also
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for documents that appear to be absent. Despite the unprecedented
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volume of material now available, it's apparent that many gaps
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remain in the public record surrounding Epstein's activities, his communication,
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the federal investigation into them, and the circumstances surrounding his death.
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Behind Bars Hour review identified several areas where important questions
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remain unanswered or documents appeared or remain unreleased. Well that's
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basically the whole last investigation right. The Epstein Files Transparency
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Act provides only limited grounds for withholding information or redacting names.
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Its primary purpose is to protect victims. The bills specifically
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excluded reputational harm or political sensitivity as a reason for redacting,
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Yet in many instances, prominent individuals' names were redacted while
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victims' names were not. And it's funny how it always
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went one way right, one way traffic the whole entire time,
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always a victim's name being released. Never the dirt bags,
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I know, just another big accident. They were overworked, all
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these lawyers from all these different departments. Some redactions seem
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difficult to justify. In one example, the text where Epstein
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send Steve Bannon a link to an article, Bannon's face
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was blacked out in a photo that had already been
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publicly posted online. Have to protect Donald Trump's guy, right,
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mister Steve Bannon himself, Jeffrey Epstein's other bff. Elsewhere, the
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names of business contacts and acquaintances of Epstein appear to
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have been redacted without an obvious reason under the terms
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of the law. Well, there is no reason. The thing is,
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they knew they didn't have to answer for any of it.
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Every single one of these officials that's involved in this
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knows that no matter what happens. They're never going to
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face consequences. Donald Trump will pardoned them, so they can
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say and do whatever they want to further the cover up.
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And the only way we're ever going to get to
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the bottom of it is if we have an independent council.
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In another widely cited example, a two thousand and two
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email with the sign off love Milania had the full
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name and email of the sender and receiver redacted. In April,
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First Lady Malania Trump acknowledged having exchanged emails with Glenn Maxwell,
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saying in a statement that it cannot be categorized as
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anything more than casual correspondence. My plight reply to her
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email doesn't amount to anything more than a trivial note.
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Oh no, nothing at all. All of us have those
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kind of emails to people who are diddling little kids
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like The whitewashing of this is just unbelievable. I remember
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a point in time in this country where a scandal
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like this would be the end of you, But now
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no big deal. In fact, this dude is convinced people
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that it's all a hoax. And I'll tell you what,
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as much as people don't want to admit it, it's
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been a masterful stroke by Donald Trump and his administration. Oh,
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it's costly for the American people, but for him personally.
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Starting that war in Iran was the best movie ever made.
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And now that that's winding down, a lot of the
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hubbub and buzz surrounding the Epstein Files has been muted.
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Whether that's people lost interest because of all the inaction,
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or people who thought things were real now think it's
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a hoax because Donald Trump told them so. Either way,
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donald Trump got what he wanted, and that's people focusing
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on other things besides this issue. The Epstein Files Transparency
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Act requires the DOJ to provide justification for every redaction
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it permits withholding information that would constitute a clear, unwarranted
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invasion of personal privacy, but also states that all redactions
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must be accompanied by a written justification, published in the
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Federal Register and submitted to Congress. The Department of Justice
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has made no attempt to address specific redactions, and instead
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issued a general statement saying it's redactions were consistent with
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the Act and that certainly is not the law. They
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have to justify every single redaction made, every last one,
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and if they don't do that, or they're unwilling to
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do that, then they're not com applying with the law
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as it's written, and there certainly should be consequences for
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anybody that refuses to the same way there would be
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consequences for me or you. Members of Congress have been
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given the opportunity to review redacted material, but the process
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is time consuming, and some of complain that their searches
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are being monitored by the DOJ. Well, who are we kidding.
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Let's not act like the DOJ is not monitoring everybody.
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Pretty sure that everybody's information is getting swooped up, maybe
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not by the DOJ, but by the NSA, by the CIA.
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Remember what Edward Snowden told us. After CBS News reached
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out to the DOJ for comment on these redactions, a
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photo of Bannon and two of the emails were quietly unredacted.
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After one of those was unredacted, it revealed the sender
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was former UK diplomat Peter Mandelsson, who was arrested earlier
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this year on suspicion of mishandling sensitive government document, which
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BBC News reports he denies. Mandelson has said that he
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regrets his friendship with Epstein and says he never witnessed
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criminal activity, well besides his own right. I mean, you
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sent the emails, and in those emails was sensitive information correct?
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The DOJ released millions of epstein emails, nearly all originate
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from an email account he created around the time he
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went to jail in two thousand and eight. Missing from
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the Epstein files or emails from his other earlier accounts,
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including approximately twenty thousand messages from Epstein's je E project
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at Yahoo dot com account, which were previously obtained by
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hackers and later archived by the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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It's unclear if the DOJ itself ever obtained those emails.
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That's concerning. How could the DOJ itself not get those emails?
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You're the You mean to tell me you don't have
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the power to subpoena those emails. Some older email messages
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do appear in records apparently obtained from Glenn Maxwell's account
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or other sources, but the DOJ's release is missing most
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of Epstein's earliest communications. However, a batch of documents raises
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questions about what the DOJ does have a series of
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screen grab images of Epstein's inbox for an email account
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little Saint Jeff at yahoo dot com, a reference to
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his island Little Saint James from the early two thousands,
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notably a period of time when Epstein was in touch
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with Donald Trump, whom he knew through New York and
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Palm Beach social circles. The sender and recipient fields on
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those records are heavily redacted. Mister Trump has repeatedly claimed
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he has never used email, but those communications could potentially
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have references to Epstein's relationship with mister Trump and others.
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This was also the period in which Epstein was found
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to have been recruiting underage girls for sexual massages, and
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would likely have been of high interest to investigators. Mister
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Trump has consistently denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. Well,
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those emails could be pretty interesting, huh. And I think
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this really just goes directly to the heart of the
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issue with the DOJ claiming that they have nothing left
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to investigate, nothing left to look at, nowhere else to go,
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when it's obvious that that thought the truth. There's plenty
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to investigate. The problem is in that there's no evidence.
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The problem is there's no willpower, despite the DOJ apparently
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having access to Epstein's inbox. Only a handful of emails
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from that account were included in the release. The release
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includes a substantial amount of internal DOJ and FBI correspondence.
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The names of many DOJ and FBI officials involved in
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those communications have been redacted, making it difficult to reconstruct
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who was responsible for key investigative actions part of the plan.
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That's what they're covering up. I'm telling you right now.
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It's the institutional fluckery that they're so worried about spilling
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out because they know what will happen. They already know
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nobody trusts the DOJ, and if this comes out and
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it spills out the way it should, forget it. There's
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no coming back from that. Numerous emails in the archive
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reference detached documents that do not appear to have been
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included in the release. One example concerns the theft of
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approximately thirty firearms from Epstein's or O Ranch property in
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New Mexico in August twenty eighteen, and employee emailed Epstein
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a file titled ZMC gun Inventory PDF, which contained information
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about the weapons, including their serial numbers. According to a
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New Mexico State Police report obtained by CBS News those
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serial numbers were withheld from investigators during the theft investigation.
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CBS News was unable to locate any document containing firearm
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serial numbers in the released archive. Well, I wonder why,
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and as far as guns go, Jeffrey Epstein was at
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his heart an arms dealer that was part of his
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grooming process of his own before he started this, he
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had that even where the attachments may have been released,
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linking them back to the emails from which they originated
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is nearly impossible. The DOJ replaced original file names with
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its own document numbering system, making it difficult to determine
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whether such attachments were included elsewhere in the archive, or
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which email a file may have been originally attached to.
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Confusion is the game, that's the goal. They want you
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to be confused. They don't want you to understand what's
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happening here. They don't want you to have any idea
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that they have a bunch of files that they've release,
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and that's why they're going so hard in the paint
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to try and make you move on. A notable document
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in the files is a sixty nine page report produced
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by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force FUSION Center,
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identifying Epstein and fourteen others as targets of a DEA
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investigation into allege money laundering connected to ecstasy or ketamin trafficking.
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Sounds about right. Jeffrey Epstein was moving money, bundling it,
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and repackaging it for everybody. What you think the cartels
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didn't know about that? You think drug dealers didn't know
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about a guy like Epstein. An investigation of that scope
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would likely have generated substantial records, including investigative reports, emails,
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and financial analysis. None of that material was released, of
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course not it would tell you too much, and that
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was never the point. But sure, let's move on. The
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DEA denied CBS News request for a related records under
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the Freedom of Information Act and also declined a request
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from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden seeking additional information about the investigation.
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The senator's office told CBS News, well, that's crazy. You know,
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the Senate Congress oversight, But sure, I guess the DEA
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could just tell them to go get stuffed, because you know,
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the DEA has never been involved in anything crazy. We
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should just trust the DEA too, All these three letter agencies,
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we should trust them and we should never ask questions.
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Previous reporting by The Washington Post revealed that Epstein had
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been named in an investigation in the nineties and to
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Tower's financial a notorious Ponzi scheme, but was never charged.
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Documents related to the investigation were not included in the release,
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despite it having been conducted by the DOJ. One notable
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limitation of the law requiring the Epstein Files release is
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that it only applies to the DOJ. Other agencies may
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have documents relating to Epstein that they have not released.
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And that's the rub, isn't it. I told you that
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the DOJ has the crumbs. The cake is at Langley.
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The document about the DEA investigation revealed three separate immigration
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and Customs enforcement investigations, two of which had already been
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closed by the time of to the twenty fifteen report,
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and one that was listed as pending. But ICE, which
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falls under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered
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by the Epstein Files Transparency Act typical and not shocking
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with all of the fraud that came with immigration. We
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don't even have a valve to get that information. But
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sure it's not a cover up. They've been very transparent
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since the very beginning Neither are other government agencies, including
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the State Department, Treasury Department, CIA, or NSA, which may
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have collected material on Epstein over the past several decades.
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With his global network of political business contacts, Epstein himself
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wondered if US intelligence had files on them. Oh, he
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knew if they had files on them. Are the Knicks
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the NBA champions? That's how certain I am that there's
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files that the FBI, the CIA, NSA, and everybody else
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are still hiding that have to do with Epstein. CBS
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News spent weeks analyzing indexes the files provided to Glenn
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Maxwell by the DOJ during her criminal case. The same
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index has been used previously by media outlets to identify
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three missing FBI interview records known as three O two's,
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in which agents documented that they were told by Epstein
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accusers who made claims about mister Trump. This index used
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debates numbering, a common legal document indexing system, to catalog records.
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More than seventy percent of the roughly five thousand documents
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listed in the index could not be located through searches
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of the released archive using their assigned document numbers, according
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to a CBS News analysis. Of course, not. It was
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never about giving you the information. I want people to
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understand that this is about cover so Trump can run
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around and say he's done more for the survivors than
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anybody ever. And the fact that people are lapping that
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shit up is terrifying, absolutely terrifying. The DOJ told CBS
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News that many of the missing entries may have been
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identified as duplicates and therefore were excluded from publication. Using
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contextual clues including witness interview dates and document descriptions, some
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files could be located elsewhere, but for many that was
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not possible. One example involves an individual named Joseph Alvarez,
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also known as Gypsy Gita, who we talk about years ago.
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Gita had previously reported been named by one Epstein's survivor
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as someone who introduced her to Glenn Maxwell. Alvarez died
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in twenty twenty one. CBS News was unable to locate
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four of eight documents associated with Alvarez in the index.
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Most of the documents that were present one was a
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picture of Alvarez with mister Trump, one was alvarez business card,
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and two were photographs of large bags of cash. The
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four missing documents were listed as Alvarez asset report, Alvarez
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law enforcement report, Alvarez contact card report, and screenshot of
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redacted Facebook It's unclear from the documents why these photos
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were included in the case files while they were looking
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at him as a co conspirator. That's obvious, maybe not named,
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but certainly unnamed. Have you ever read a court document. Yeah,
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that's what they say, right, named and unnamed co conspirators.
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And what that means is they know there's other co conspirators,
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but they're not ready to name them. One of the
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most conspicuous absences is communication relating to scheduling of massages.
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In the years prior to Epstein's death, Epstein was known
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to have multiple massages each day of practice that he
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used as a mechanism for recruiting and exploiting young women
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and girls. When authority searched his Palm Beach residence in
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two thousand and five, investigators found hundreds of messages from
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women and girls that they said referred to the scheduling
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of massage appointments. Yet the released archive contains little correspondence
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about how appointments were arranged. After his release from jail
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in twenty nineteen, Epstein frequently encouraged associates to communicate using
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the encrypted messaging app Signal. No Signal messages have been
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included in the release. It's possible that investigators were unable
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to obtain them. Look, Epstein was a clandestine dude, and
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he had a lot of things going on behind the scenes,
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and he had a lot of access to technology that
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a lot of us don't have. Among those who apparently
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used Signal to communicate with Epstein were technology investor Peter
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Thiel and real estate investor Thomas Barrock. Barack, a longtime
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friend of mister Trump, is now US Ambassador to Turkey
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and Special Envoy of Iraq. Both feel and Barock were
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involved in mister Trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign. They have
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not been accused of any wrongdoing in the Epstein case. Well,
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didn't Sarah Kellen have some things to say about Tom
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Barock and how he introduced her to Jeffrey Epstein. I
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believe maybe something you want to talk to mister Barrock about.
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Suspicious activity. Reports which document millions of dollars in transactions
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made by Epstein that were flagged by financial institutions, were released, retracted,
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and then re released in an entirely redacted form. They
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originate from the Treasury Department, but were used in the
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DOJ's investigation of Epstein and Maxwell's crimes. Not well enough.
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They had all that information and they weren't able to
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hit them with RICO. Now do you think it was
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because they didn't want to or do you think that
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main Justice told them not to. One document from the
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Epstein files revealed the DOJ had footage from one hundred
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and forty seven cameras from the Metropolitan Correctional Center covering
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a twenty four hour period before and after Epstein died,
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totaling over eight terabytes of data. The internal documents indicate
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that the footage does not reveal anything significant since the
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cameras in the Special Housing unit were not active at
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the time. Even so, by law, those videos should have
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been released. Also missing or videos from July twenty third,
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twenty nineteen, the night Epstein apparently first tried to take
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his life. I don't believe that for a second. Sorry,
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I'm just going to keep saying it over and over.
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I refuse to use Nicholas Tartaglione as a source. The
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independent journalist Katie Fang is currently suing the Department of
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Justice to force it to provide justification for many of
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the redactions and release additional documents. According to former Attorney
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General Pam Bondi, her deputy and now acting Attorney General
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Todd Blanche was responsible for handling the redaction and the
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release of the Epstein files. This man should not be confirmed.
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Anyone that votes for this dude to be the Attorney
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General is suspect. The House Committee on Oversight in Government
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Reform has requested that Blanche appear before the committee and
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answer questions about the process. Now, look, I don't know
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if they're going to be able to force him to
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do that, but they should and he should willingly accept.
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If there's nothing to hide and the administrations doing what
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they say they're doing, being the most transparent administration ever,
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nothing to worry about, right somehow, I think that mister
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Blanche is going to fight tooth and nail about going
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under oath and talking about this topic and as far
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as the other stuff goes, all the stuff that's missing, Unfortunately,
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it's just the tip of the iceberg. We all know
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that there's a lot more that's still bubbling under the surface,
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and a lot more they're hiding so at this point
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it's not if they're hiding something. The question is how
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much of it is still hidden, and unfortunately, at this
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point we just don't know. So like usual, we're going
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to keep pounding away and when we have something new,
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we'll get it added to the catalog. All the information
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that goes with this episode can be found in the
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