Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump’s justice department released more than 3m files last week
The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week’s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline.
The missed deadline and up to 3m files that remain unreleased have prompted criticism and calls for further disclosure to answer how Epstein sexually abused girls with impunity for decades and landed a sweetheart plea deal about 20 years ago that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution.
It’s pretty clear they’re saying they should only be redacted to protect victims, not perpetrators.
They literally said that the full unredacted files are the only way forward. They were very clearly not saying that.
You are very clearly ignoring that they said this, meaning that some kinds of redactions are appropriate.
Yes, I’m ignoring it because the next sentence contradicts it.
They didn’t say, “release the files with only the victims redacted.” They said release the full, unredacted files.
They did indeed, and using the context of what was said before that, you can reasonably deduce that they meant the full, unredacted files as far as the perpetrators go. You are being willfully obtuse by choosing to take the literal meaning of the last thing that was said and ignoring everything prior.
No, you can’t reasonably deduce it. “Releasing the full UNREDACTED files is the only way forward,” is an absolute statement. The context doesn’t change this.
It’s wild that instead of admitting they misspoke and meant there should be caveats, y’all are doubling down on intentions that were not present in the statement.