DoJ Makes Appalling Mistakes in Release of New Epstein Files |
For months, the federal government has faltered in its attempt to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the bipartisan bill signed by President Donald Trump that mandated the full release of the Justice Department’s enormous trove of documents and media related to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump administration blew past the congressionally mandated deadline and is staggering its Epstein releases, dropping millions of pages in batches that have included some problematic redactions along with the expected disturbing revelations. But the Trump administration’s latest release — an imposing tranche containing more than 3 million pages and 180,000 images — revealed another level of government sloppiness.
A Wall Street Journal analysis found that the Justice Department failed to redact the full names of 43 victims in Friday’s file release. The Journal reported that some of the women’s names appeared more than 100 times throughout the batch of documents. Of the victims left exposed, the Journal reports that the names of more than two........