Democrats had been pressing for an amendment to cryptocurrency legislation that would have forced the release of information and exhibits itemized in a list of evidence held by the justice department from the 2019 child sex-trafficking case against disgraced financier Epstein.

Democrats had weighed in on the issue, hoping to force a release of the documents. “The question with Epstein is: Whose side are you on?” California Democratic US House member Ro Khanna, the author of the Epstein measure, told Axios. “Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, or are you on the side of the people?”

But Republicans on the US House rules committee voted down the amendment that would have allowed Congress to vote on whether the evidence – which includes micro cassettes, DVDs, CDs including one labelled “girl pics nude book 4”, computer hard drives and three massage tables in green, beige and brown – should be released.

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    Here’s an unredacted version.

    The ‘Massage’ section is all girls and a few of their moms. Some of those names are redacted (IIRC those who were set to be witnesses for the prosecution). Trump is listed under the ‘Island’ section.

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      I just spent some time reading through this. Why isn’t this list all over the news? Why is the news making a deal out of whether or not it’s released, if it’s already accessible?

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      It looks like the apartment in Miami is mentioned in that section too. I knew about Alan Dershawitz, but not John Kerry. David Rockefeller shows up, but I’m not sure what Rockefeller he is, or if he’s one of the famous ones. Those are the only names I recognize from that section.