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“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, said in a video statement posted on social media.

By way of example, Khanna noted: “They released one document from a New York grand jury of a 119 pages totally blacked out! This despite a New York judge ordering them to release that document, and our law requires them to explain redactions. There’s not a single explanation for why that entire document was redacted.”

“We have not seen the draft indictment,” Khanna added, “that implicates other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island, who either watched the abuse of young girls or participated in the abuse of young girls.”

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” Khanna said, including the impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress, “or referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice.”

Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican congressman who co-wrote the legislation, shared Khanna’s video statement on social media, with the comment that the document release by Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed, “just 30 days ago”.

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 129 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Remember kids, every black line says the word Trump over and over and over. Spread the word.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 92 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (5 children)

Supposedly there was about 300Gb of material, compared to about 3Gb released so far, so it's fair to assume the other 99% is videos of Trump fucking kids unless/until they release the rest to show otherwise.

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 39 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I have no idea how the retractors live with themselves. What the fuck.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They're probably in on it, too. This administration surely drew like-minded people.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

FYI a retractor is a surgical implement. I believe the word you were looking for is detractor.

[–] alcibiades@sh.itjust.works 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

the word is redactor. a detractor is someone who disparages someone/thing. The commenter made a new definition of retractor by turning the verb retract into a noun that describes someone.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

You're such a smelly poopoo-head. You wouldn't know what a detector was if they were talking directly to you!

Aaaaand scene

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Such a didactic response

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

FYI: Little 'b' means bit. Big 'B' means byte, a factor of eight larger. Basically, there's eight times as much Pedonald.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Trump, active politicians, wealthy CEOs, connected public figures, and even Israeli spies and handlers.

Take your pick of Epstein associates that the US govt would opt to protect for reasons other than the public good or national security.

300Gb is only ~38GB. Still, 3GB is only ~7.5% of 300Gb. So we should assume the other ~92.5% is photos and videos of pedonald fucking children.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

They needed 1000 FBI agents to redact out all references to Pedo Donny. 1000 agents ! You can BET that they all show Donny 2 Inches being a pedo.

[–] Embargo@lemmy.zip 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

::: TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP :::

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 44 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Why hasn’t the actual document been leaked yet? At first I thought it was because it couldn’t be used if it was. But there’s literally a law ordering its release, so just dump it.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 38 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Because the pedo protectors have the documents.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Biden had them for 4 years

[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 17 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, like they said, the pedo protectors have the documents.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

Biden also has rumours of being a pedo, just nothing even close to the shit Trump has.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they are. Anyone who expected something different is unbelievable naive.

There is a provision in the law that they can withhold anything related to "national security", so they can basically filter at will. You can't claim something you'll never see not to falling under that provision...

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 11 hours ago

But they didn't say the redactions were due to national security. It'd be bullshit if they did, yeah, but they didn't. So they're still not complying.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago

Every deletion is an admission.

[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

That's incorrect. They DID release all of the most important and incriminating documents, 119 pages of them bundled in a single file. Here they are:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%203/EFTA00005586.pdf

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 17 hours ago

🎶 No colours anymore, I want them to turn black 🎶

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Yes. You can go browse the released files yourself

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I opened this in a a couple of text editors on the off chance, unfortunately its just a black rectangle graphic with no text to be recovered.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Jesus fucking christ. Our govt is run by elementary school bullies. And they're just getting away with it.

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

When I first saw these pop up, I thought my phone was having connectivity issues and couldn't download the images fully.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Of course they're missing, did anybody thing anything else would happen? They'll release just enough salacious material to keep the voyeurs satisfied, but none of it will be actionable, at least not against MAGAs or Oligarchs. They'll keep the good stuff quarantined, or perhaps it's already been burned.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 9 points 13 hours ago

They even reported how FBI agents were taken off regular assignments to comb through for any mention of Dear Leader and rack up overtime. That was months ago.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Yep. I bet the released materials cover a) Democrats and b) anyone else Trump dislikes.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago

I think Americans should assume every politician who takes money from AIPAC is involved and we should remove them all from office immediately throw them in prison without bail and try them for treason

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 18 points 15 hours ago

Since we only know of a few "politically exposed individuals", I'm just going to have to assume that all the redactions are pertaining to them. Probably, primarily, Trump...since I doubt, if the rumors are lies or exaggerations, that Trump would go through so much trouble to protect Clinton.

In which case, why is Trump so afraid of all of these documents, to the point he has to black out nearly everything?

If he's truly innocent he shouldn't have any problem proving it, right?

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear, right?

Right, Taco?

So c'mon. It should be easy to weasel yourself out of this.

Unless...it's not.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

Dems have access to all the files and can release them by reading them into the Congressional record.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

Referring who for prosecution by who? Are the fascist child rapist protectors going to prosecute themselves?

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours ago

Is this news? We all knew there would be fuckery going on with the DOJ release anyway. I wish I would've invested in black ink earlier this year.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Not surprised and always disappointed with this kind of shit. Everything blackened out has a name of a fucking politician or oligarch. Sick bastards!

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"Ha, suckers" -Donvict Drumpf

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

They just didn't had enough time to photoshop Obama on the island. Seriously who knew that the country that invented "step"-familly porn was full of pedophiles?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 3 hours ago

since trump, republicans and politicial and financial backers are in it, its unlikely they ever plan of exposing them.