After studying the newly released Epstein files, MS NOW legal analyst Lisa Rubin quickly discovered that many file entries are nearly completely redacted by federal authorities, despite calls from critics and congressional Democrats to fully release the files.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially released hundreds of thousands of documents and photos pertaining to convicted sex-trafficker and child predator Jeffrey Epstein’s two federal investigations. All of the new information can be found on the DOJ’s website in its “Epstein Library,” which features PDF links to documents and photos.
Many of the new materials are redacted in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act’s guidelines on protecting names and identifying information of Epstein’s victims, but Rubin was frustrated that entire entries were blacked out.
“… [W]hen I opened it, I gasped because I thought we were going to see something, and what I saw instead was a 100-page document that says ‘grand jury of New York’ at the top of it. And that’s the only text that you can see,” Rubin told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace.
“It goes on for 119 pages, where every single page of it is completely and 100 percent blacked out, but for the Bates — meaning how the department of justice has numbered these pages — it bears a stamp of EFTA, standing for Epstein Files Transparency Act and the number of the document that corresponds to it. But over 119 pages, 100 percent completely redacted,” Rubin added.
Logging onto the high-traffic DOJ site for the Epstein files may put you in queue, but a search for the word “Trump” in the resulting search box pulls up “no results found. Please try a different search.” Searches for “Maxwell,” the last name of Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, similarly pulled up no results on Friday night.
“The fact that … great portions of it are redacted is very disheartening,” said Miami Herald investigator Julie K. Brown, who interviewed some of Epstein’s victims .. “ … [W]e know the judges have ruled that they could release this material … I think there’s going to be a lot of people that are going to be angry and disappointed.”
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