“The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,” Ro Khanna, the California Democratic congressman who co-wrote the law requiring full disclosure of all of the government’s investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, said in a video statement posted on social media.

By way of example, Khanna noted: “They released one document from a New York grand jury of a 119 pages totally blacked out! This despite a New York judge ordering them to release that document, and our law requires them to explain redactions. There’s not a single explanation for why that entire document was redacted.”

“We have not seen the draft indictment,” Khanna added, “that implicates other rich and powerful men who were on Epstein’s rape island, who either watched the abuse of young girls or participated in the abuse of young girls.”

“It is an incomplete release, with too many redactions. Thomas Massie and I are exploring all options,” Khanna said, including the impeachment of justice department officials, finding them in contempt of Congress, “or referring for prosecution those who are obstructing justice.”

Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican congressman who co-wrote the legislation, shared Khanna’s video statement on social media, with the comment that the document release by Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general who previously served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law” that Trump signed, “just 30 days ago”.

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      Supposedly there was about 300Gb of material, compared to about 3Gb released so far, so it’s fair to assume the other 99% is videos of Trump fucking kids unless/until they release the rest to show otherwise.

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    Of course they are. Anyone who expected something different is unbelievable naive.

    There is a provision in the law that they can withhold anything related to “national security”, so they can basically filter at will. You can’t claim something you’ll never see not to falling under that provision…

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      But they didn’t say the redactions were due to national security. It’d be bullshit if they did, yeah, but they didn’t. So they’re still not complying.

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    I think Americans should assume every politician who takes money from AIPAC is involved and we should remove them all from office immediately throw them in prison without bail and try them for treason

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    Referring who for prosecution by who? Are the fascist child rapist protectors going to prosecute themselves?

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    Is this news? We all knew there would be fuckery going on with the DOJ release anyway. I wish I would’ve invested in black ink earlier this year.

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    They just didn’t had enough time to photoshop Obama on the island. Seriously who knew that the country that invented “step”-familly porn was full of pedophiles?

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    Not surprised and always disappointed with this kind of shit. Everything blackened out has a name of a fucking politician or oligarch. Sick bastards!

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    I mean really the goal here is looking for the story through what they missed, like piecing together a Jigsaw where you only have ⅛ of the pieces

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    The justice department’s document dump this afternoon does not comply with Thomas Massie and my Epstein Transparency Act,

    And what will you do about it? If history is any indication, nothing at all

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      Nothing at all? These guys lead the discharge petition, they have done more about it than basically everyone else combined.