“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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    You just said it yourself. Top Secret. But it’s not super common.

    Secret is almost automatic, but Top Secret is not. No, you need a special investigation into your background. You get a psych eval, your parents, neighbors, teachers, and highschool classmates are also interviewed.

    It’s a process that can take months or even a year or two.

    So no, the military does not go through that process with everyone.

    So yeah, the only people getting psych evals are the sort of people who the military needs to trust implicitly. People who work on classified shit, or people who might need to be evaluated to see if they’re going to snap and kill everyone because of the fucked up shit they went through on their last combat deployment.

    And not everyone deploys, and of those who do, not everyone goes outside the wire.

    So yeah, there’s a huge selection bias right there that gives you your 20% nonsense.