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The Justice Department's redactions of the Epstein files and the subsequent FOIA litigation to force the release of the unredacted documents.
The Justice Department’s recent public release of the so‑called “Epstein files” contains extensive redactions: victim names and identifying details, names and passages that appear to refer to alleged ...
Some redactions in the Department of Justice’s released “Epstein files” were indeed technically easy to defeat—researchers and reporters showed that at least some blacked‑out text could be recovered b...
has published millions of pages from the so-called files but left extensive redactions and—by the department’s count—millions more documents withheld, with the most prominent redactions tied to victim...
has repeatedly said it withheld or redacted portions of the to protect victims, preserve legally protected materials, and avoid jeopardizing ongoing investigations, citing categories such as personall...
The temporarily removed and heavily redacted a small set of that mentioned or pictured — most notably file EFTA00000468 and several images and text-message attachments that had Trump’s face blacked ou...
and say they redacted the files to protect victims’ personally identifiable information and to remove child sexual abuse material, and they characterize their work as complying with legal requirements...
No reporting in the supplied documents links any "wealthy donors of " to the files; the public releases do name a roster of rich and famous figures — including , , , and — but the materials and journa...
The apparent contradiction — heavy redactions to protect alleged Epstein victims while references to Donald Trump that appeared near those passages are removed or altered — stems from a mix of statuto...