Well there was a whole lot of news about this the past couple of days but none of it seems to have found it’s way to the Fediverse.

Per the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ released “The Epstein Files” on Friday, the 19th. Only they didn’t. Despite spending $851k dollars on overtime (4737 collective hours) in the the “Special Redaction Project” (also internally referred to as the “Epstein Transparency Project”), they were clearly still not finished, because (depending on who you ask) they only released ~1% of the available files. More files will continue to be released “over the next couple of weeks”. While I would argue this is a good thing, as it’s kinda like Wikileaks where they release docs over time in order to keep it in the headlines for an extended period, but it is also definitively not in compliance with the law that was passed.

In addition, the files were (as expected) very heavily redacted. We’re talking hundreds of pages that are redacted in their entirety. Just entire documents with black squares over them. Nothing visible except “Grand Jury-NY”.

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According to the law, the DOJ must provide an explanation of any redacted files, which they’ve also not done.

In addition to that, many docs were redacted retroactively, or removed completely. At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage entirely..

In one case there was a file which didn’t have much context but detailed how DJT liked to flick and suck one girl’s nipples until they were raw.. This file was redacted after release, which provided essentially incontrovertible proof of what we already knew; that they are indeed not redacting anything to protect victims but to protect Trump (and probably his friends).

Several of the files removed were pictures of Trump. It’s kind of hilarious how they spent so much time and money and yet fumbled this so badly, and then later tried to “fix it” by removing them, as if no one would realize it. It’s pretty much exactly the type of ineptitude we’ve come to expect from this admin.

The Democrats have, accordingly, drafted articles of impeachment for Pam Bondi.

Let me know in the comments if I missed anything.