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DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed (www.independent.co.uk)

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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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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 24 points 2 days ago

Nice of them to publicly admit that they willfully and deliberately violated the law.

Not likely to see any enforcement under the current regime, but it will be helpful for later prosecutions.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

47,635 files were offline for further review

Hmmm, I wonder if they'll include these that were missing, but previously released. These were collected by someone else:

YouTube video of Katie Johnson’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRod

Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

PDF of the initial complaint (WARNING very graphic): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don't think it can keep being called department of justice

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

The Department of Just-Us.

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Department of Corruption

[–] notabot@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Department of Injustice

[–] IAmLamp@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Not unironically, anyway… Does remind me of the ministries in 1984, though

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

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!!