DOJ releases, and removes, extra Epstein information : NPR

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Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs The Division of Justice began releasing information associated to the life, demise and legal investigations of convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein Friday. Recordsdata continued to be posted on its "Epstein Library" web site on Saturday.

However NPR recognized greater than a dozen information launched by the DOJ on Friday which might be not out there Saturday afternoon, together with one which exhibits President Trump's photograph on a desk amongst a number of different pictures. The eliminated information additionally present varied artworks, together with these containing nudity.

On its web site, the Justice Division directs individuals to report any information that ought to not have been posted by notifying the company utilizing a devoted e mail tackle. A press release on the high of every web page of the web site stated: "In view of the Congressional deadline, all cheap efforts have been made to assessment and redact private info pertaining to victims, different non-public people, and shield delicate supplies from disclosure."

The DOJ acknowledged, although, "due to the quantity of data concerned, this web site might nonetheless comprise info that inadvertently consists of private personally identifiable info or different delicate content material, to incorporate issues of a sexual nature."

The DOJ didn't instantly reply to a request for touch upon why the information have been not out there.

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Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Photographs After the preliminary launch of information, some members of Congress raised issues about what was lacking from the info units.

"There are highly effective males, bankers, politicians who we all know from survivors - they've instructed us this — who have been at these events the place there have been many younger ladies, and some have been below age, and these highly effective males knew about it, they usually did not say something," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., instructed NPR. They should be no less than publicly held accountable."

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who cosponsored the Epstein Transparency Act within the Home together with Khanna, criticized the redactions.

Posting on X, he stated the discharge "grossly fails to adjust to each the spirit and the letter of the regulation." He additionally warned "a future DOJ might convict the present [Attorney General] and others" for not correctly releasing all information the regulation mandated be made public.

Aside from the photograph that's not out there to obtain, Trump's title and picture seems not often within the new paperwork out there. There are a number of footage of him with ladies and a framed photograph of Epstein and a redacted girl with a $22,500 outsized test signed by Trump.

Whereas Trump wasn't talked about a lot this time round, he was a frequent topic of emails and textual content messages in one other Epstein file tranche launched by the Home Democratic Oversight Committee — with nicely over a thousand totally different mentions — although primarily as the topic of Epstein's near-obsession together with his presidency, because the latter positioned himself as a Trump whisperer of types to his highly effective associates.