The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued the release is insufficient

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    5 days ago

    Intentionally lying to the population for something outside of national security should be made treason. Protecting pedos isn’t a matter of national security

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      I also feel like if a government says that its nation’s security relies on lying to their citizens, then that’s not a government worth keeping anymore.

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        Meh, id say a release date would be better. Some information needs to be held for a short time, but beyond 6 months, is rediculous. If you are planning a counter attack, sure it’s fine to say we don’t know what is going on. But 6 months later everything should be made public. It’s our information we paid for. They are civil servants. Outside of prisoners, they are the legal definition of what should be slaves until they quit

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    All Epstein files Trump can afford her to get released. The rest will probably show him in such a bad light, even die-hard MAGA heads would grab torches and pitchforks and march to Washington.

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      Trump is not the only one implicated in this. There are wealthy, high-profile people from around the world and across the aisle implicated in this. Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Steve Bannon, Elon Musk, former Price Andrew, Richard Branson, Sarah Ferguson, Lord Mandelson, and on and on. There is a long long list of powerful people that do not want these files released.

      Even if they had zero knowledge of the sexual trafficking and pedophilia, the mere association with him can hurt them badly. I mean look at Elon, he had 1 email asking when the next party would be and now he’s been accused of pedophilia. Regardless of whether he had any knowledge or was involved in any way, it’s a bad look.

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        Yeah but you know, there is always someone waking up and realizing that what they are doing is wrong. Somehow this was not the case here. So it is done by observing them closely. The agents probably see only one text line at a time. And the super critical stuff gets handled by Bondi and Blanche personally. It has to be something weird like that, or there would be way more leaks

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    Millions of new files relating to the late sex offender Epstein were released by the DoJ earlier this month. At the time, the deputy attorney general said three million pages were not released.

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    The same dept. already said they hadn’t released all the files. They also said there was a list of co-conspirators on their desk and then the next day denied the existence of such a list and said “nothing to see here, move along”.

    Nothing they say can be trusted.

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    We haven’t finished redacting them all yet. You will get them as and when we are finished. Next batch is due soon. Just chill. Certain people we have to protect are taking a while