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The process of withholding or redacting sensitive information from documents, including those related to the Epstein case.
sent a formal records demand on January 13, 2026, asking and Secretary Kristi Noem for broad personnel and internal documents about any or DHS hires tied to the , 2021 attack, including lists of emplo...
The Justice Department has acknowledged that it has published fewer than 1% of its Jeffrey Epstein–related records — roughly 12,285 documents totaling about 125,575 pages — while more than two million...
The physical seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago occurred during an FBI search in August 2022, when agents executed a warrant and removed thousands of pages and boxes of materials . What followed was...
Third‑party indexes such as , and other media-hosted searchable mirrors emphasize accessibility and investigative convenience, often aggregating deleted or redistributed items and adding searchable me...
The hosts a public “” with a site-wide search bar intended to let users query names, dates, organizations and phrases across released datasets (justice.gov/epstein) . That search is useful but imperfe...
latest public dump of included roughly 2,000 videos amid a broader release of millions of pages of files, but the media landscape around those videos is a mix of confirmed archival footage, alleged fl...
public is a massive, uneven corpus: roughly 3–3.5 million pages of documents, plus about 2,000 videos and 180,000 images drawn from multiple federal and state investigations, uploaded to “Epstein Libr...
has posted its disclosures on an official DOJ "Epstein Library" and on discrete Data Set pages—public access points managed on —while the department also issued a major press announcement about publis...
The public releases of the include concrete documents—aircraft flight logs, passenger manifests, contact/“black book” entries, emails and photographs—that list or depict recognizable public figures as...
Major news organizations reported extensively on ’s mass release of Epstein-related records, and the DOJ itself published release documentation that references (notably items bearing an “EFTA” prefix)...
Major news organizations and government bodies have used a mix of , metadata and file-forensic analysis, cross‑corroboration with independent records, and provenance tied to law‑enforcement case files...
Since 2024, publicly reported federal prosecutions directly tied to are limited but real: at least two plea convictions tied to a criminal group that stole federal personnel data in 2024, and a separa...
reviewers, led publicly by , said the , that extensive redactions were applied to protect victims’ personal and medical information and to avoid jeopardizing active investigations, and that the depart...
The newly released files mention hundreds or thousands of times and include a spreadsheet of tips to the that allege a range of sexual misconduct and violent acts involving Trump, but most of those it...
At least 16 items that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee point to — including a specific image labeled file 468 that contains a photograph showing President Donald Trump alongside Jeffrey Eps...
The Justice Department began publishing limited, heavily redacted caches of documents tied to the Epstein matter in late 2025 under the statutory deadline, then continued piecemeal FOIA-style disclosu...
Mainstream newsrooms typically seek original documents from the issuing agency using formal access routes such as FOIA/Privacy Act requests, compare what is received against official archives and agen...
The Justice Department’s public Epstein release — indexed under EFTA numbers running roughly EFTA00000001 through EFTA00008528 — includes files that news outlets and DOJ notices describe as containing...