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Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The law was clear: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by 19 December 2025, with rare exceptions.

One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.

Justice department attorneys said in a 5 January Manhattan court filing that they had posted approximately 12,285 to DoJ’s website, equating to some 125,575 pages, under this legislation’s requirements. They said in this same letter that justice department staff had identified “more than 2 million documents potentially responsive to the Act that are in various phases of review”.

That these DoJ’s disclosures apparently comprise a drop in the bucket – and have done little to shed light on how Epstein operated with apparent impunity for years – has roiled survivors’ advocates and lawmakers. They include attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented dozens of Epstein’s survivors.

They note that the Department of Justice has also flouted another requirement of this act, which requires that the attorney general provide a report identifying “categories of records released and withheld and summarizing all redactions and their legal bases” within 15 days of their disclosure deadline.

“To date, no such report has been provided. Without it, there is no authoritative accounting of what records exist, what has been withheld, or why, making effective oversight and judicial review far more difficult,” they wrote. “Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act.”

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Social media used to scare the state because people can organize and protest and overall complain better.

That was over a decade ago. The big social media companies have tightened up their algorithms significantly and can strictly control what is "trending", who can see another person's content, and what kind of organization can occur.

Reactionaries were way out ahead on this when they started their own smattering of alt-media (Truth Social being a branch of Mastadon is painfully ironic, given how the platform has been flogged by Lefties as an alternative to Twitter since the Obama Administration). Liberals are still huddled on Facebook and Instagram and Reddit, struggling through waves of Shrimp Jesus content and screamer ads for MyPillow, to post "Trump has small ads" into an echo-chamber of bot accounts.

So the tactic is hinting the pedophilia while bombing Palestine and invading Venezuela for oil and sending ICE along with threathening Greenland/Europe at same time. Three of these then get ignored.

None of them are ignored. At the same time, vanishingly few people seem to know who to talk to in order to contribute to an organization that opposes these policies. Just whispering the phrase "DSA" sets off a firestorm of angry liberals blaming Ilhan Omar for costing Harris the election. Meanwhile, Chris Coons is the only Dem in the Senate with anything resembling a spine and he can't seem to get the corporate camera crews to notice him.

None of this shit is getting ignored. All of it is very deliberately suppressed.