The Department of Justice has withheld from the public nearly 48,000 files stemming from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, after publishing more than 2 million pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
The initial legally mandated releases of documents comprised more than 3 million pages, though that figure is now roughly 2.7 million, according to an analysis of the files by CBS News and The Wall Street Journal.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department told the outlets that “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.”
Those offline files include materials connected to unverified allegations against President Donald Trump, The Independent previously reported.
So I haven’t verified this or seen any official source mentioning it, but there are apparently a huge number of files missing around in the years surrounding 9/11.
Nice of them to publicly admit that they willfully and deliberately violated federal law.
Not likely to see any enforcement under the current regime, but it will be helpful for later prosecutions.
I don’t think it can keep being called department of justice
The Department of Just-Us.
47,635 files were offline for further review
Hmmm, I wonder if they’ll include these that were missing, but previously released. These were collected by someone else:
YouTube video of Katie Johnson’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRod
Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/
PDF of the initial complaint (WARNING very graphic): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/
