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.
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 174d
Hmmm, I wonder if they'll include these that were missing, but previously released. These were collected by someone else:
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 34 pts · 174d
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.
20cello@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 174d
I don't think it can keep being called department of justice
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 174d
The Department of Just-Us.
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 14 pts · 174d
Department of Corruption
notabot@piefed.social · 5 pts · 174d
Department of Injustice
IAmLamp@fedia.io · 3 pts · 174d
Not unironically, anyway… Does remind me of the ministries in 1984, though
borQue@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 174d
my god what a surprise! Would never have thought that!! they'd really do that!!! Maybe the Government is not honest about everything after all!!
Grimy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d
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.