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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:27 PM Thursday

Will Pam Bondi release full Epstein files? The AG has doubters.

The responsibility to release the so-called "Epstein files" by Dec. 19 falls on the shoulders of a Trump administration official who already once did an about-face when it comes to transparency about Jeffrey Epstein: Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Lawyers for victims and several members of Congress told USA TODAY they aren't confident Bondi will provide unbiased transparency, especially when it comes to people associated with the late sex offender, who died in jail in 2019.

Survivors "are now being asked to trust a process that has no independent verification from an agency that's being dictated to by a president who has been included in the documents themselves," said Spencer Kuvin, a Florida lawyer who has represented several alleged Epstein victims over nearly two decades.

Under a law passed by Congress, the attorney general must release the Justice Department's records about people tied to Epstein's criminal activities, his legal settlements, and Epstein-related investigative proceedings. The exceptions to that mandate are narrow: Bondi is allowed to shield material that identifies a victim, depicts abuse, would jeopardize an ongoing investigation, or is classified.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam-bondi-release-full-epstein-100600278.html

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Will Pam Bondi release full Epstein files? The AG has doubters. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday OP
Wouldn't be shocked if they reverse the redactions -- protect the guilty and name the victims JT45242 Thursday #1
Part of the Epstein Bill is that the AG is required to explain separately every redaction and that it must be filed in2herbs Thursday #6
Sure, she's at the Home Depot today. usonian Thursday #2
I thought the court was Faux pas Thursday #3
In the event no one noticed, The Wizard Thursday #4
They'll find a way Diraven Thursday #5

JT45242

(3,812 posts)
1. Wouldn't be shocked if they reverse the redactions -- protect the guilty and name the victims
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:30 PM
Thursday

Would be par for the course during the Mango Mussolini reign,

in2herbs

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6. Part of the Epstein Bill is that the AG is required to explain separately every redaction and that it must be filed
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:24 PM
Thursday

with Congress and the government records office (don't remember name) when the files are released. The Bill sets out the penalties for her failure to comply. She doesn't have immunity but I suspect an EO is already on F45's desk pardoning her.

Faux pas

(16,060 posts)
3. I thought the court was
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 01:52 PM
Thursday

releasing them? Shouldn't they go to the committee investigating all of his crimes against humanity?

Diraven

(1,795 posts)
5. They'll find a way
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:06 PM
Thursday

To release just a handful of meaningless almost completely redacted documents and claim that's all there is, nothing to see here. Trump won't be named in any of them.

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