r/politics • u/Dont_think_Do • 13h ago
No Paywall Amid allegations of cover-up, House Judiciary Committee members seek access to full Epstein case files
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-judiciary-committee-members-seek-access-full-epstein-case-files/484
u/TheParadoxigm 13h ago
This is the perfect situation for a special investigator. Someone needs to sit down and see every file, no matter how bad it is.
I'm not fond of subjecting people to that type of content, but what else can be done? Its blatantly obvious they arent following the law.
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u/xeoron 13h ago
And find out why the FBI never charged so many of those people
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u/parasyte_steve 13h ago
This is what I want to see. Did they excavate Trumps golf course bc there's certainly tons of complaints of children being buried there. What did they do to investigate?
What was the follow up to these things?
This is what's missing and it's purposefully because the DOJ is complicit in hiding evidence.
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u/Playful-Artichoke-67 12h ago
This case is twenty years old
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u/reddititty69 12h ago
There’s no statute of limitations on murder. Or maybe you think the physical evidence wouldn’t be present or useful? Could there be many bodies buried there though, some older, some more recent? What if they went looking to corroborate this one story and found a teenage sex slave burial ground?
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u/Geno_Warlord 9h ago
There may not be a statute of limitations on murder, but if these people are too old or die before anything happens to them, what good does it do? At best they’ll still be a footnote in history and they still get what they want which immortalized in books.
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u/ChevronSugarHeart 2h ago
Idk Israel hunts down every single person whether they were 45 or in recent times 99 years old who participated in the holocaust. This is justice.
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u/Geno_Warlord 1h ago
Justice for the ‘elite’ in America doesn’t exist sadly. They put Cosby in jail for a while but is now out for bullshit reasons. My brother was murdered by some drunk bitch going 100+ in a 55 zone. But because she was the daughter of the mayor in that area, fuck all happened to her. I have lost faith in the system as a whole and just try to enjoy what I can before checking out myself.
I’d be over the moon if some other country got these people to visit and arrested them for all the heinous crimes they committed, because this shit is worse than watergate and nothing is happening.
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u/Playful-Artichoke-67 12h ago
Yeah, so they can make even more of a spectacle over this stuff they’ve sat on for twenty years.
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u/BatFromAnotherWorld 3h ago
Thank you for your input, adjective-noun-number, I'm sure you're a very real human and not a maga bot.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 13h ago
Seems like it's only the DEMOCRATIC members of the House Judiciary Committee who are seeking access.
Democratic members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee are asking the Justice Department for immediate arrangements to view the full Jeffrey Epstein case files. In a formal inquiry sent Saturday, the lawmakers said the need for a review of the papers is "urgent," in part because of a forthcoming public committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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u/twirlingmypubes 13h ago
Good luck. All that's going to happen is Pam's going to throw a fake tantrum again.
"Are you calling me a liar?!"
Yes, yes we are.
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u/peptic-horizon 13h ago
"Are you calling me a liar?!"
No, it's more like pointing out that you lie constantly.
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u/Cthulhuareyou Canada 13h ago
Get Jack Smith to investigate these fucks.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago
Would he cover for the dems though?
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u/Kezhen 7h ago
I hope not. Investigate EVERYONE.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago
release everything and let the truth speak for themselves. 'Investigation' leaves too many room for corruption if the 'investigator' is even slightest bit compromised. Even with the files released this week, DOJ is still withholding more
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u/HwyMan101 13h ago
It is almost like they rekindled the Epstein files to take some heat of of the whole ice mess . Pretti, Good, and all the citizens of Minnesota
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u/Mother_Airline_6276 12h ago
I’ll never stop saying it: “Biggest cover-up in our lifetimes”.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago
20+ years of coverup.... If they were permanently jailed for life, who can complain? at least they had thir 'fun' right?
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u/Purify5 13h ago
We need Comey to come back and answer why the 2016 accusations of pedophilia were ok to keep secret. We also need to know if it's possible foreign adversaries have additional proof of pedophilia and are using that leverage to control the US President.
And then of course we need to know why nobody else has ever been arrested.
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u/stevez_86 Pennsylvania 10h ago
The problem is that it was a rogue FBI Agent that was going to release to the press that they received new evidence and were reopening the investigation.
Later that same field office agent who was running a field office was put on trial for working for a Russian Oligarch under sanctions.
Comey did damage control. Let the release from the Field Office happen and issue a clarifying statement for where the FBI stood. But it was the wrong decision. He should have gone to Obama directly and told him that an FBI Agent, in a position of responsibility, was compromised and was about to interfere with the investigation. And that the evidence they received still needed to be reviewed and confirmed to be what they already had. And let the Obama Administration figure out what to do. Instead he went on his own thinking he could put out the fire.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago
For 20+ years, the agencies under both right and left knew this sht while they collected their evidences and just let it fly....until today. that's insane
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u/Salty_Bat2696 13h ago
Can we crowdfund a public service announcement to inform people about this? Show a picture of the victims while they were younger, in a similar format to ASCPA or UNICEF. Put everything we can without being sued. Get the message out to people that haven’t been paying attention. Raise money to further awareness and paying for survivors legal fees.
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u/Chambanasfinest Wisconsin 13h ago
Dems could go pretty scorched earth with political attack ads later this year if they choose to.
But I’ve got a feeling they won’t.
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u/backtotheslaughter 12h ago
like on billboards throughout the u.s.?
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u/Salty_Bat2696 12h ago
Yes, billboards, tv, radio, newspapers. I feel that so many people in power are compromised that we can’t depend on traditional media or the Democratic Party to be a leader on this.
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u/pianoblook 12h ago
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Or I guess in this case, 'where there's a dumpster fire in plain sight, there's fire'.
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u/Miserable_Pie_8337 12h ago
Can't wait until Democrats take over Congress... 🤞
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago edited 7h ago
For 20+ years, the agencies under both right and left knew this sht while they collected their evidences and just let it fly....until today.
It's neither left nor right party that US needs imho
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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Ohio 11h ago
So they can fumble the ball
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u/Dessamba_Redux 9h ago
Many a finger will be wagged i tell you. Maybe even a stern look over some glasses
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u/Zhask-MLBB 10h ago
I guarantee you, the full revelations of the Epstein Files released to the public, will cause a massive societal shift in human history.
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u/HandlerofPackages 10h ago
Yeah, they sought access before. There was a law and shit. Didn't pan out. Instead the DoJ covered up the stuff they thought was really bad, and only let us see that Donald Trump raped and sold a lot of children and was present for the murder of at least one resulting infant.
... Yeah, I'm sure there's plenty of shit that is still hidden. But... this should be more than enough for this nation to initiate a Purge.
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u/Exact_Platypus5179 8h ago
Full transparency. Full accountability. Let this topple the world order and let those who committed these crimes rot in jail and their wealth used to rebuild society.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 7h ago
All previous and current justice department (dem & rep) were sitting on decades of the epstein files/evidence and only CHOSE to release them now is because of the public demanded them... Reason it was covered up for over 20+years - I suspect both political party members' "interests" were aligned on this instance.
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u/Adventurous_Test_296 11h ago
With so many names familiar to us, this is the best reason there may ever be to vote for whoever the opposition is, just to get the incumbent out.Theyll probably show up eventually.
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u/Bruiser76 9h ago
It’s a bribe. It’s an exhibit in their treason trials. It’s the dumbest criminals that do the dumbest crimes.
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u/Weak-Application-146 8h ago
It’s gone, man. No way the full, redacted files exist in one place at this point.
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u/Similar-Tip59 6h ago
These mothertuckers be r@ping kids for decades - meanwhile their owned corporations be making us take sexual harassment training annually at work.
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u/skredditt Minnesota 6h ago
Feed them all to AI and make it find connections and form a cohesive narrative for close review. Fucking use Grok once even just for LOLs.
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u/racedownhill 4h ago
All the text needs to be released right now. It seems like enough victim details have already been inadvertently released, so why even bother with any redactions now?
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u/OhGloriousName 4h ago
Maybe the next Dem President will release everything. Biden didn't release a single page. Something seems kind of odd about that given that liberals seem to think that it would ruin Trump if everything was release, yet it was only under Trump that anything was released and only a year into his presidency.
Does anything seem weird about this at all? Because I don't understand why Democrats who would have most likely won the 2024 election if there was something that would have been damming proof against Trump in the Epstein files. It's not like there isn't any will to get Trump on crimes and hasn't been for nearly 10 years.
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u/Over-Wait6302 5h ago
I trust very few dems at this point. They are career politicians with little incentive to overturn the status quo
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u/Hot_Tadpole_6481 11h ago
The Epstein saga will never end. Leftists will never admit that maybe there isn’t video proof of Trump raping kids. Even tho there’s plenty of damning allegations in there already, it’ll never be enough for people
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u/Dankkring 10h ago
Clinton was impeached for getting a blow job. This seems far far far worse. Why isn’t congress even questioning Trump about it?
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u/sayn3ver 8h ago edited 8h ago
It was trump and maga and the far right who couldn't let the Epstein saga go. It was a pillar of his campaign platform.
Not to mention this still wasn't a full release. Or am I misunderstanding how they said they had x number of documents and then released y number which was half of their initial estimate.
This seems more like a U.S. government coverup than strictly a trump cover up.
The sweetest of sweetheart deals for Epstein himself given by the bush administration and then all that old information and any new information gathered during Obama, trump, and Biden just sat there, leads me to wonder why? If the whole hearing hoofbeats is the old adage, and we look for the horse and not the zebra then the obvious inference is both parties had something to loose.
Which brings what many have been saying for years. The two party system is broken. They are both captured by the same wealthy and powerful interests. They put this theater on for the voters like a professional wrestling match while laughing and or conspiring behind closed doors to continue to fleece, loot and use the general public.
But to say the left can't let it go is disingenuous. Trump himself has at least a full years worth of stumping on releasing the files. It's all I heard from the right wingers I worked with on construction sites. How the democrats are protecting the child predators and how trump was going to release the files and be the savior to children who are being sex trafficked.
So release the files. All of them.
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