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Handling of Epstein files is ‘outrageous’, say attorneys of his sex trafficking survivors (www.theguardian.com)

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“We are getting constant calls from victims because their names – despite them never coming forward, being completely unknown to the public – have all just been released for public consumption,” Edwards said. “It’s literally thousands of mistakes.”

Victims attorney Jennifer Freeman said the justice department’s “handling of the Epstein files has been a mess from the start, filled with … ham-fisted redactions, while exposing the identities of survivors”.

Freeman also alluded to how Friday’s release missed a congressionally set deadline that passed in December. She said that the victim-survivors and their advocates “won’t allow the federal government to simply dump a couple million documents and wash their hands of one of the largest law enforcement failures in US history”. She also accused the justice department of “hiding the names of perpetrators while exposing survivors”.

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[–] yuri@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we didn’t have to get this semantic, it’s pretty surface-level to acknowledge that doom-and-gloom comments aren’t everyone’s cup of tea

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking isn’t everyone’s cup of tea either. And we got to this semantic because someone thought to try and ridicule the realist’s perspective of current events.

I was fine to contribute my opinion and move on.