Lawmakers will be able to review the files on computers at the Justice Department starting Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. They can take notes but can't have electronic devices.

Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans.

The review process will take place in person at the DOJ, according to a letter to members of Congress obtained by NBC News. The members will be able to review the material on computers at the DOJ offices but not the physical documents themselves.

The letter states that members can review the documents in person, provided they give the DOJ 24 hours’ notice. The option at this point is only available to members of Congress — and not their staff. They may take notes but can’t bring in any electronic devices, the letter said.

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[–] 62 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Jesus fuckin christ the lengths these people will go to to protect pedophiles

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  • [–] 59 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Fun fact! Epstein ran a multinational child sex ring. That means other countries with their own investigations have unredacted files as well.

    They'll come out sooner or later.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Im ignorant on this. Do we know that other countries have the unredacted files?

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  • [–] 52 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    MAGA are pretty stupid. You could probably sneak some of those Ray Ban Meta glasses in there.

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  • [–] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, Zuck probably has a killswitch for anything Epstein related

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  • [–] 88 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No electronic devices? OK, stock up on old 35mm cameras and film. And carbon paper / rubbings or whatever, copy as much as possible using non-electronic means.

    Bring in a big box of silly putty, take transfers of as much as they can.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is extremely limited.

    Only the Congress members themselves can go and not their staff.

    Only the 3 million documents that they released and not the full 6 million documents.

    Realistically all they'll be able to do is pick out a specific redacted document and look at its unredacted version.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    A lot of these items are sandwiched with anonymous tip call docs so there are lots of crazy BS claims interspersed with actual stuff that happened in order to discredit the actual stuff that happened.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well, time to run for congress. My platform is "I am possibly the most autistic a person can be while still being capable of public speaking. Give me 2 months in office and I will memorize and publicly recite that shit. I will be resigning immediately afterwards. I have no other policy positions/will pursue no other policy objectives."

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I have no other policy positions/will pursue no other policy objectives."

    Except I will ensure that the army develops large 20 metre high robots that I call Battlemechs.

    And we shall paint them blue, gold, white, red, green and not red and black.

    Coz fuck Kurita

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    I don't remember the lore well enough. I seem to recall having a hate boner for Smoke Jaguar. I don't remember why. What did house Kurita do?

    Edit: oh and to ensure they are proper battlemechs, they have to be able to walk and jump! None of the continuous track BS that they used at the so-called "first battlemech fight," a few years ago.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago

    Amazing to me they can be held back at all. It just shows how much power the executive branch has taken. Congress should be able to do whatever they please in this regard.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If I was a Dem politician (one who actually had balls), I'd demand to read all files that mention Trump, his cronies and Israel with as many GOP politicians present as possible.

    Then make all we learned together public and call them out for knowing it too but continuing to support that pedophile asshole.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    This is to protect the victims, right?

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If by "victims" you mean "the people whose lives will be ruined if the unredacted files are fully released", then yes.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Won't someone think of the poor billionaires?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I think of them all the time!

    Sometimes, they're crucified alive along the streets into major cities. Other times they're guillotined on public television. Anymore, it's just injecting them alive with raw sewage and then slowly ripping them apart with a medieval torture racks right before they succumb to sepsis.

    I'm an empath and nothing in this world drives me to homicidal thoughts than those fuckers and how much they have fucked everything in the world because they can. The more I learn the more I'm ready to drive a stake through their cold, dead hearts!

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    What's the official rules on what they can share? Like could Ro Khanna do like a AMA where we give him page numbers... solid targetted list of

    "OK so who messaged epstien about the littlest girl being very naughty", who all were the co-conspirators listed on page X, etc...

    Is that information considered classified he'd go to jail for it? I mean technically everythings supposed to have been released from the get go...

    Because we honestly, we've seen more than enough to know heads need to roll, hell we can point to so many points in the files where we can see specific people that's heads should be rolling where we just lack the names.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    In theory anything they say in session is legal. Hence, The Pentagon Papers. Who knows how it would play out today.

    On the other hand, Gaetz and a bunch of other fuckwads basically live streamed themselves breaking into a scif.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    They're only letting congress read unredacted versions of files they've already released to the public in redacted form. So nothing unvetted is being released to congress.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    We need congressional representatives who are young and have photographic memories to view this shit.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And what difference are we all believing this will make this time?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I have no hope that the American government will do anything. It reaches too many people, and they aren’t going to punish themselves.

    There will be a few head shakes, some words about needing to do better. But the American government does not truly stand on the side of protecting the vulnerable, and I don’t believe it ever will.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I don’t either. And the America we were sold on, never existed to begin with. It’s amazing how thin that veil turned out to be. I wonder if all the talk about the military being the dividing wall between a fascist regime and a civil war was bullshit too.

    I’ve a feeling we’re going to find out.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    They're gonna furrow their brows so hard.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago*

    The lawmakers that haven't done anything to stop ICE, curtail tarrifs, tax the oligarchs, flight for healthcare? Those lawmakers?

    Huh. Another Monday, then.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    TIL I’m a member of Congress.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Gonna be a whole party of them locked in their offices jerking off to certain materials.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Bullshit. You all know it's bullshit. It will not happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Until he’s impeached, convicted and removed from office and his adminstration prosecuted, convicted and jailed. I don’t want to hear about Epstein. Or Trump.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Which members?

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    [–] 34 points 9 months ago

    The review will only be of the 3 million files currently available to the public, not the extensive trove of more than 6 million documents in total that the DOJ says it has in its possession.

    Still not good enough.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They will have replaced trumps face with AI, turned it into bill gates or someone else or something.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Leeeak everything, it's illegal that they've released redacted evidence anyways, so what are they going to do? Punish you for something that was legally already supposed to be done?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    When will they read them?

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