BREAKING: FBI Redactions Inside Epstein Files Exposed, DOJ Pushes to Unseal Epstein Records
Nov 26 | FBI Epstein File Redactions Exposed, DOJ Seeks Court Approval to Unseal
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We have some huge breaking news right now and I hope you all are paying close attention!
Federal prosecutors have asked the judge who handled Ghislaine Maxwell’s case to lift a long standing protective order so they can release large parts of the Epstein record. The request covers nearly every category of evidence collected over years of investigation, including warrants, financial documents, flight manifests, interview notes, and estate files.
Bloomberg’s FOIA Files revealed internal FBI emails describing a huge review effort at the bureau’s Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia, with agents and FOIA staff working thousands of hours, nearly 5,000 of them overtime, to process more than 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related data. Bloomberg
Those emails describe a project called the “Epstein Transparency Project,” also referred to as the “Special Redaction Project,” with mandatory training on strict redaction rules and secure-facility protocols. Bloomberg
Separate reporting and FOIA documents show that in earlier phases of the review the FBI repeatedly redacted Donald Trump’s name from certain records, prompting Senator Dick Durbin to press Director Kash Patel on why Trump was flagged for special handling and whether political considerations shaped the redactions.
Even with Congress passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Justice Department is still asking the court to allow some information to remain withheld under exemptions related to privacy and ongoing investigations, which means the public is unlikely to see an unfiltered picture of everything the government collected in the Epstein and Maxwell probes.
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Something happened with H.R. 4405
That bill was supposed to release the classified/sealed documents implicating Trump. Now they are not going to release those classified/sealed files.
Trump and his international pedophile network are going to claim that all the files have been released. This is going to end up being the big coverup Trump needed.
I knew something was wrong when the republican guardians of the pedophiles voted for it that bill all of a sudden.
I don’t know why Ro Khanna changed that bill last minute but that bill is not going to have anything implicating Trump released.
I was tricked by Ro Khanna’s stupidity at first. He was telling everyone that once his bill received the majority vote it would require the DOJ to release the sealed files incriminating Trump. I found out the president could veto the bill which would then require 292 house votes and 67 senate votes to pass into law. Ro Khanna decided to remove the part of the bill that would release the sealed documents incriminating Trump. That caused essentially all the republicans to vote for the bill.
Everyone has to make a big deal about this. Otherwise this is going to be exactly what Trump needed to clear his name.
The Democrats want those sealed files released. Make sure you vote for Democrat representatives in 2026.
OTHERWISE TRUMP AND HIS CORRUPT NETWORK WILL CONTINUE THEIR DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA