Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. One of the most egregious situations when it
comes to Jeffrey Epstein is the fact that the Department
of Justice has gotten away with negligence for decades. The
first time Mario reported Jeffrey Epstein to the authorities, it
should have been followed up on, It should have been investigated,
and action should have been taken. And because the FBI
and the DOJ ignored the warning, it led directly to
countless girls and women being abused in the future. And
I'm not naive, right, I understand that time has passed,
and we all know that as you're investigating something and
time goes by, things happen to the evidence and it
ends up walking away. Whether that's by negligence or by design,
it happens. But you know what they can hide. You
know what's impossible for them to ignore if we really
start looking into it, is the way the Justice Department
conducted themselves from the very beginning. And I think that
if we really want to get to the bottom of
all of this, that's where we have to start, because
we have to hold them accountable for what they have
done or what they haven't done, and now, of course
they're engaging in a widespread cover up at what seems
to be the behest of a sitting United States president.
So yeah, we have some questions, and we're not the
only ones, and that's because some senators are seeking to
review the Justice Department's handling of these files. And that
is exactly what should be happening. And any person who
is not in compliance with the law should be held accountable,
and if any crimes were committed, those people should be prosecuted.
And in a perfect world, that's what would happen. But
we all know that we don't live in a perfect world,
and we certainly do not live in a perfect country.
Today's article is from the Washington Post and the headline
senators seek review of Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.
This article was authored by Theodoric Meyer. A bipartisan group
of senators is asking the Government Accountability Office to examine
the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein
amid concerns the Department is not released all the documents
required by law. Well, I don't think you have to
be an insider to know that they're not complying with
the law. They're doing whatever they want. And the reason is,
as I've stated numerous times, because they have nothing to fear.
Do you really think that Donald Trump isn't going to
pardon these people use a blanket pardon the same way
Joe Biden did. He most certainly is, and that gives
his people the brazenness that they need to get up
there and act the full. If they know they're never
going to be accountable for the bullshit they're doing, then
why would they stop show up with the hit list,
talk about the Dow whole bunch of wild shit, and
none of it's relating to the topic at hand. President
Trump in November signed a nearly hunanimously passed law mandating
the Justice Department make public records related to the late
convicted sex offender with narrow restrictions, and those narrow restrictions
certainly became wide. Huh. Let's be real. They're pretty much
doing whatever they want, and then they just make up
excuses as they go along. Oh, we didn't put this
out because X and Y and Z, and then we're
over here like, well, that's not what the law says
you have to do, and the DOJ's answer, we are
the law out here. Like Judge Dread, The Department released
millions of pages of documents, but Democrats and some Republicans
in Congress have raised concerns about how faithfully it complied
with the law. The lawmakers have questioned whether all relevant
files have been released, criticize the Department for failing to
redact victims' names in some instances, and challenge decisions to
redact the names of Epstein associates they believed should have
been identified. Well, yeah, if you're not a victim, why
is your name redacted. That's not what the law says.
The law doesn't say protect our friends. It doesn't say
keep less Wexner from embarrassment. It says protect the names
of the people who are abused. That's what it says.
But like usual, this administration doesn't give a damn what
the law says. They're just gonna do whatever they want,
and until somebody stands up and stops them, that's going
to continue to happen. Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat from Oregon,
Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Republican Ben Ray Lujan, Democrat from
New Mexico, and Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, asked the
g an independent agency that's part of the legislative branch,
on Wednesday, to examine how the Department reviewed the files
and the resulting failure of the Department to follow the law,
respond to Congress, and protect victims. And so Lisa Murkowski
is the only person that signed off on this. Murkowski
is the only Republican that's willing to play ball. Makes
sense considering the way they're protecting these people, considering the
fight they're putting up when it comes to transparency, and
considering the war pathon when it comes to anybody asking questions,
It's not a shock that more members of the GOP
seem disinterested when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. The Senators
are seeking details, including how many people were tasked with
reviewing and redacting the files as the Justice Department scrambled
to comply with the law, and then he guidance the
administration provided them. In a letter to or Rice Williams Brown,
GAO's acting comptroller, they echoed concerns by Representative Rocanna and
Thomas Massey, the authors of the law requiring the files
to be made public, about how the files were redacted.
That should be concerning to anybody. I don't understand how
it's an issue. How has this become a wedge issue.
It's wild to me that anybody could look at this
and say to themselves, you know what, this is a
one side or the other issue. It's both sides. It's
everybody with power. And the more the pitchforks and torches
fight with each other, the better these people are. Contrary
to Congress's explicit directive to protect victims, these records included
email addresses and nude photos in which the names and
faces of publicly identified and non public victims could be identified.
The senators wrote, But when it came to information identifying
powerful business and politics figures who are allegedly co conspirators
or material witnesses, the DOJ appears to have heavily redacted
those records, not appeers, that's what they did. Got to
make sure you protect the bag man right. Got to
make sure Leon Black doesn't get put on blast. Got
to make sure Les Wesner is still swimming around that
money like Scrooge McDuck and all those girls who were victimized.
Who gives a shit, They don't matter, not to these people.
The letter comes as lawmakers and both parties have continued
to scrutinize the Department's handling of the files, more than
a month after most of them were made public. And
I think that everybody's scrutinizing them, and I don't know
how anyone, being honest with themselves can say that this
has been a transparent process, because in my opinion, it's
been the complete opposite. But the good news is the
dow was over a fifty thousand. Senate Minority Leader Charles
Schumer accused the Department last month of orchestrating a massive
cover up to protect Trump and Depstein's associates. The House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted last week to subpoena
Attorney General Paum Bondy, with five Republicans joining Democrats and
voting to compel her to appear for a closed door deposition.
Well it's about time. I mean, you would think that
pound Bondi, of all people, should be answering some questions, right,
Probably a good idea, But unfortunately, what we're gonna get
is another performance. She's gonna get up there, act indignant
and act like she's the one who's being victimized well
at the same time not even recognizing the actual victims. Now,
think about that and think about how that makes those
survivors feel. Bondi has defended the Department's compliance with the law.
The Department made public more records last week that it
said were not released before because they were wrongly determined
to be duplicates of other records. Sure they were. I'm
sure that's exactly what happened. Have you noticed that all
the records they quote unquote forget to release, damning? I know,
just another coincidence that it happens to be those documents
that get forgotten about. This administration released over three million
pages of documents, over three million, and Donald Trump signed
that law to release all those documents. Bondie testified last
month in a contentious appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
He is the most transparent president in the nation's history. Wow.
Like for that alone, she should be charged with perjury.
That's an obvious lie. The most transparent president of all time. Yes,
so transparent that he had to get dragged, kicking and
screaming into signing the bill. Super transparent. The senator's request
is not lawmaker's first effort to unearth more details about
how the department has handled the massive task of reviewing
and redacting the files. A dozen senators, including Berkeley, Murkowski,
and Durban, wrote in this to don Bertha, you the
Justice departments Acting Inspector General to ask them to audit
the department's compliance with the law. The Inspector General's office
did not immediately respond to a request about whether it
has undertaken such an audit. Look, I doubt that they will.
And even if they do, do you really trust the
OIG after everything that we've seen, after all the reports
we've read, I don't trust them at all. So that's
why I continue to call for a special counsel or
some kind of tribunal something, because what we're doing now
is not working, and we can't trust the DOJ to
police themselves. And that's why I'm so against the OIG
when it comes to situations like this, because the past
has proven that they're more interested in covering for the
government rather than holding the government responsible for their misconduct.
Now that said, at least the Senate is making this move,
But if they really want to have some teeth, if
they really want to get people know at the DOJ
and they really want to force compliance. The way to
do that is with the Special Council. So the question
is will we ever get there? Will we ever have
a special council appointed to take a look at what's
happened here going all the way back to the first
Clinton administration? I don't know, but I think we should
and I think that if we ever want to get
any kind of clarity, if we ever want to get
to the bottom of what truly happened, then I think
a special Council is a vehicle to get us there.
And that's why I don't think we'll ever see it.
So what do you folks think? Do you think we're
going to ever get real transparency here? Do you think
the Senate or Congress is going to force the hand
of the DOJ or do you think it's going to
be more of the same. Shoot me some emails and
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