“There was no integrity in that room today, it seems like, when it came to Epstein and Maxwell,” Teresa Helm said after Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Six survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and two members of another accuser’s family said they felt “degraded” during Wednesday’s contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to face them and apologize.

Several Epstein survivors and relatives were on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers grilled Bondi for over five hours about several matters, including the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein case. She was specifically questioned about why released files were heavily redacted and why several survivors’ names were not.

“There was such a lack of empathy today. There was such a lack of, honestly, humanity today,” Dani Bensky said on NBC’s “Hallie Jackson NOW.”

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    I made NCO. I still never got a psych eval. It wasn’t part of the process.

    Again, if I had needed a Top Secret clearance there would have been one, but I never needed anything beyond Secret, which did not come with a psych eval.

    The vast majority of people never get Top Secret, and never get a psych eval unless something comes up, like a major fuckup or certain combat roles.

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      I’m pretty sure I have already said that mentioned the fuck ups. Narcs fuck up all the time but in a setting like the military it doesn’t get ignored. The second person I mentioned was a programmer in the army and he left as a E5. He had a top secret security clearance and worked a job for a few years in the private sector after he left due to that. You try to make it seem like its rare but its very common as far as I can see. Perhaps all the vets I interact with are just more trustworthy and able to be approved for a security clearance.