3 Million More Documents in Epstein Files Released, 'Extensive' Redactions Explained
The Justice Department is releasing more files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Todd Blanche, deputy attorney general, said Friday (January 30) that there will be more than three million pages of documents being released, including over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images.
He noted that the files will include “extensive redactions,” and that they include large quantities of commercial p–nography and images “that were seized from Epstein’s devices,” The Guardian reports.
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“The department’s collection effort resulted in more than 6 million pages being identified as potentially responsive, including Department and FBI emails, interview summaries, images, videos and various other materials collected and generated during the various investigations and prosecutions that the act covered,” he explained.
He said withheld files were ones related to personal and medical files, documents depicting death, physical abuse and injury, and any depiction of child sexual abuse “that would jeopardize an active federal investigation.”
There were about 200,000 pages redacted or withheld, per a letter to Congress. You can search the files on the DoJ’s website.
“A rigorous process was undertaken to protect victims against any clearly unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy,” he said.
He insisted that the documents show what “President Trump has said for years …which is detailing his relationship, and lack thereof, with Mr Epstein, and what he thought about Mr Epstein.”
President Trump is mentioned hundreds of times in the new files, according to the website’s search function, via The Times.