The Department of Justice has withheld from the public nearly 48,000 files stemming from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, after publishing more than 2 million pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

The initial legally mandated releases of documents comprised more than 3 million pages, though that figure is now roughly 2.7 million, according to an analysis of the files by CBS News and The Wall Street Journal.

A spokesperson for the Justice Department told the outlets that “47,635 files were offline for further review and should be ready for re-production by the end of the week.”

Those offline files include materials connected to unverified allegations against President Donald Trump, The Independent previously reported.

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[–] [S] 38 points 8 months ago

47,635 files were offline for further review

Hmmm, I wonder if they'll include these that were missing, but previously released. These were collected by someone else:

YouTube video of Katie Johnson’s testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRod

Full court docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

PDF of the initial complaint (WARNING very graphic): https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/1/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago*

    Nice of them to publicly admit that they willfully and deliberately violated federal law.

    Not likely to see any enforcement under the current regime, but it will be helpful for later prosecutions.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think it can keep being called department of justice

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    my god what a surprise! Would never have thought that!! they'd really do that!!! Maybe the Government is not honest about everything after all!!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    So I haven't verified this or seen any official source mentioning it, but there are apparently a huge number of files missing around in the years surrounding 9/11.

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    [–] 123 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yea, this is "what are you gonna do about it" phase of our government.

    Good-night and enjoy your dictatorship.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It has been since the beginning

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  • [–] 82 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    So, they are admitting they broke the law, then?

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Bro, have you once thanked Trump doe?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Unfortunately the law was written with no teeth. There are no real repercussions for failure to adhere to it.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago

    Feb 16 2026 Justice Department head Pam Bondi says "all Epstein files released"

    "Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a letter to Congress that the Justice Department has released what she described as 'all' of the Jeffrey Epstein files, saying the agency has fulfilled its obligations under the Epstein Transparency Act."

    Mar 4 2026 ... apparently that thing she said was a lie.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Trump has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, and one’s appearance in the Epstein files does not suggest otherwise.

    It sounds to me that “The Independent” has been bought and paid for. Not only has he been accused thousands of times, he is a convict.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Trump has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, and one’s appearance in the Epstein files does not suggest otherwise.

    It sounds to me that “The Independent” has been bought and paid for. Not only has he been accused thousands of times, he is a convict.

    Have you not heard of defamation???

    It's the most standard boiler plate statement journalist are forced to insert into their stories by their legal department.

    Although this raises an interesting point. If Trump sued the independent for defamation clearly he would have much to lose in discovery hence he probably wouldn't do it, so you could potentially come out and call Trump a pedophile.

    Then again Trump seems to be killing a lot of people, rule of law be damned

    It's why subtext is so important, because this is clearly implied in the article ie Trump is guiltily of hideous crimes hence why the DoJ had to, illegally, delete/scrub files with information in that clearly showed his culpability

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    At this point I am starting to think there might be evidence of something huge in these files. Like the US involvement with the plans for 9/11 or something.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Weird what dates they didn't release...

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That awkward moment when Epstein orchestrated 9/11 on behalf of Israel because bush jr wasn't into children like every other politician.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    We’re gonna find out that the only politicians that dont fuck children are W, Cheney, and goddamn Kissinger then my brain is gonna collapse in on itself like a dying star.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    I hope that foreign governments release the unredacted PDFiles, in full.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They are under no obligation to, of course, but I wish we'd see the victims band together and ask that any & all parties with access to the full unredacted files release them immediately. Zero redactions.

    There are so many victims though, that you can't just get them on a stage together on TV. And surely some will still not want to be outed.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It sucks that some innocent folks would relive bad memories from an unredacted release. On the other paw, that shield of civility is also letting horrible monsters have free reign to continue abusing people, or to escape the consequences of their sordid past.

    As a society, we should be able to treat the survivors with kindness, and the understanding that they didn't "ask for it".

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh I agree. The documents should get dumped in full and we should treat the survivors with the grace and generosity they deserve.

    Then maybe we think of some ways to stop putting greedy psychopaths into positions of power!

    Our culture is completely on board with ruining both of these ideas, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    The documents should get dumped in full and we should treat the survivors with the grace and generosity they deserve.

    Have you met people? You and I might do that, but you can't guarantee some awful shithead will, and there's a lot of them out there.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    You can say pedophiles on the internet.

    What is this self-censoring bullshit? We're not on dear leader's tiktok

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    You hope that foreign governments will somehow release us government non-public files?

    Im curious, how do you think that will work? They don't have access to them anymore than you do.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    WHat's the point removing them? Not like the criminals mentioned in the already publicly available ones have been prosecuted

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Aren’t there like 3 MILLION more?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    OK, and when will they comply with the law?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Consequences?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Stuff like this happens only in nations that are moronic and useless enough to be run by tax collecting pedophiles, rapists and war hawks. They will get away with this.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    If that's NOT another reason to study and read socialist theory, then I don't know what is. https://redsails.org/

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Shocking. 

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Time to organize

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    OK in that photo, who are the two dudes and the woman on the foreground...image search?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Blondi has no shame

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Didn't people complain about the lack of redactions for victims, even though it has now been confirmed, by those who viewed the unredacted files, that many of those redacted victims were trafficking minors and were authors of some of the questionable emails?

    Yet when they take them down temporarily to review redactions, people are mad about that too?

    People have all the documents backed up already. If they fail to restore any of them, then we'll know. 🤷‍♂️

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