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Democrat slams US justice department’s release of Epstein files: ‘we are witnessing a full-blown coverup’ – live (www.theguardian.com)

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Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files as “a full-blown cover-up”.

Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”

"We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there."

A reminder that US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said on Friday that every woman’s image had been redacted, adding that if any members of Congress wanted to see the unredacted material they should contact the DOJ so that could be arranged.

Raskin went on:

"Remember, they’ve said there are six million potentially responsive documents there. They’ve only released three million with more than 10,000 redactions. So we have to go look at those redactions. They’ve not sent us the explanation yet for those redactions. But then what about the other 3 million files?"

"Because we are witnessing a full blown cover up. Remember, not only is there a subpoena to attorney general [Pam] Bondi to turn everything over to Congress now; there’s a federal law compelling them to turn it over, and yet we’re just getting the dribs and drabs of information coming out of this stuff that they want us to see."

To the suggestion that three million files was not “nothing”, Raskin added:

"Well it’s close to nothing when they’re deciding which documents are coming out and there’s a federal law and a subpoena compelling them to just turn everything over to Congress."

"And they said that they had done this process many months ago, and there’s nothing to see there."

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”

"We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there."

Holy shit guys, they sent a letter. We got em now.

I could not muster a weaker response if I tried.

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Next up, they will send some smoke signals against the wind...

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The weaker response was no one giving them actual power in November.

But hey, angry online posting is probably equivalent to their letter so..

[–] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Amazing how Republicans as the minority party can always frustrate Democrats, but somehow the reverse is never true. Weird that there is always a Lieberman in the punch bowl.

Unrelated, but can you tell what's the next sequence in the pattern: 1,2,3,4.....?