Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files as “a full-blown cover-up”.
Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”
“We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there.”
A reminder that US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said on Friday that every woman’s image had been redacted, adding that if any members of Congress wanted to see the unredacted material they should contact the DOJ so that could be arranged.
Raskin went on:
“Remember, they’ve said there are six million potentially responsive documents there. They’ve only released three million with more than 10,000 redactions. So we have to go look at those redactions. They’ve not sent us the explanation yet for those redactions. But then what about the other 3 million files?”
“Because we are witnessing a full blown cover up. Remember, not only is there a subpoena to attorney general [Pam] Bondi to turn everything over to Congress now; there’s a federal law compelling them to turn it over, and yet we’re just getting the dribs and drabs of information coming out of this stuff that they want us to see.”
To the suggestion that three million files was not “nothing”, Raskin added:
“Well it’s close to nothing when they’re deciding which documents are coming out and there’s a federal law and a subpoena compelling them to just turn everything over to Congress.”
“And they said that they had done this process many months ago, and there’s nothing to see there.”
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So we sent a strongly worded letter that, together with a lot of hope, will get us the information, I’m sure of it!
Fuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkkkkk
Nixon would be so proud.
Democrat does nothing but complain. SSDD
“We sent them a letter”
“…and so we’re demanding a right to do it.”
“I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there.”
I think it says it in the constitution that congress should “hope” for compliance and “send letters” when they dont get it. No lawsuits, no impeachments.
It also says in our laws that we cant send weapons to countries engaged in genocide, and that federal “agents” cant barge into your home without a warrant, that we are all are entitled to due process and representation, citizen or not, and that we are all protected from unreasonable search and seizure. I hope those merit a few lines of complain in his letter for the abusers reading pleasure.
I don’t understand why they don’t drag people in front of a panel every day, 8hrs a day, until these files are put into an scif while they are being redacted.
Force the DOJ leadership to basically sit in timeout until they fulfill their legally ordered duty.
See this is what kills me about the Democrats. Sure they’re not all powerful. But they don’t use any of the power they have. Cuz like you mentioned they could make this a living hell for anyone in the administration. They could be dragging these fools up to testify all day everyday. Wasting tons of time, making things extremely stressful for these people, massive headaches, lawyer fees, and all else that goes with it. They just don’t. Occasionally they’ll do it for a good TV clip and that’s it.
I don’t doubt that part of it is that most of these zombies are on death’s doorstep already and it’d take more energy than they can muster anymore.
Expected that from day one, how is anyone surprised?
Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”
“We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there.”
Holy shit guys, they sent a letter. We got em now.
I could not muster a weaker response if I tried.
Next up, they will send some smoke signals against the wind…
The weaker response was no one giving them actual power in November.
But hey, angry online posting is probably equivalent to their letter so…
Amazing how Republicans as the minority party can always frustrate Democrats, but somehow the reverse is never true. Weird that there is always a Lieberman in the punch bowl.
Unrelated, but can you tell what’s the next sequence in the pattern: 1,2,3,4…?
Well I mean, 20-30% turnout in primaries each year. Who is saying you can’t get further left people in?
If progressive ideas and politicians are actually that popular it shouldn’t be hard to take the Democratic party over.
Look, I’m not saying don’t try to take it over. Very much support that idea. However, I have serious doubts that the DNC elites will allow that to happen, and will likely change the rules, or find other ways to frustrate such ambitions. Which we already have evidence of them doing so thus far.
Then of course comes the question of “How long will that take to achieve?”. People are in concentration camps, now. People are being kidnapped, now. People are being raped, now. People are being killed, now.
How many innocent lives will be harmed and lost while we wait for the mafia to be reformed from the inside? Who are you willing to sacrifice for it?
1000+ overtime hours of the FBI scrubbing the worst trump details from the files, still mentioned over 5,000 times
When this stuff isn’t even scrubbed, really makes you wonder what they redacted.
The fact they took that document down, then put it back up when media reported it had been scrubbed is so damning
So can we revolt now, or are you guys gonna keep sending mean letters?
No, they’ve got a strongly worded statement committee for next month.
Even if they had released the full set completley unredacted, I’d bet my Chiquita bananas that it has less consequences than the Panama papers.
Slam-dippity-doo!
