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“I went over there, and I was able to determine, at least I believe, that there were tons of completely unnecessary redactions, in addition to the failure to redact the names of victims, and so that was troubling to us,” Raskin told reporters.

He accused the justice department of being “in a cover-up mode” and breaking the law.

“They violated that precept by releasing the names of a lot of victims, which is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on their part, or, as a lot of the survivors believe, a deliberate threat to other survivors who are thinking about coming forward, that they need to be careful because they can be exposed and have their personal information dragged through the mud as well,” Raskin said.

The justice department has released a total of about 3.5m files related to Epstein, and Raskin said there were around 3m more awaiting release.

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Another redacted document Raskin said he saw in full was an email Epstein had sent to his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, which contained an account from his lawyers of a conversation with attorneys representing Trump that occurred around 2009.

Trump was quoted in it as saying that while Epstein was never a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, he had been a guest and was never asked to leave, which would contradict statements from the president that he had at one point barred him from his Florida property.

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[-] ooszyj@piefed.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Ok, so they can take notes. But they can't be used as evidence for anything I assume? DOJ can just say, "well you must've written the wrong document ID in your notes, because that document doesn't say what your notes says it does."


That they can't bring staff members who have been researching the issue is also an odd restriction. As a member of congress, you can go there and look at a tiny sample of 3+ million files, potentially make some handwritten notes. I doubt many members of congress have spent the majority of their last 10 days digging into the files to find lines of investigation into specific files, They do have other things to do, so the restriction for them to not bring anyone who are more familiar with the files simply seems like another roadblock for this exercise to be useful to anybody.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah. They've built a rat maze around the cheese, but, if someone was determined and went in with a plan, they might be able to find it.

Whether or not that happens is out of my hands.

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