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The rules and exceptions surrounding grand jury secrecy in the US
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 ...
The government continues to withhold portions of the special counsel’s report and other documents because judges have imposed holds and protections under criminal-procedure and national-security rules...
Federal judges have moved from a posture of routine grand-jury secrecy toward a series of orders allowing the release of a wide swath of Epstein-related materials after Congress enacted the Epstein Fi...
A mix of legal constraints, bureaucratic reality and partisan politics explains why successive administrations did not simply “release the Epstein case” in full: grand‑jury secrecy, victim‑privacy red...
The Biden White House did not force the Justice Department to publish the so‑called “Epstein files” largely because DOJ officials and senior Democrats insisted on prosecutorial independence and legal ...
The Biden White House publicly explained its refusal to order a wholesale release of Jeffrey Epstein–related files by pointing to legal and privacy constraints — principally grand‑jury secrecy, protec...
The Justice Department’s slow, heavily redacted rollout of the Epstein materials reflects a collision between statutory transparency demands and established legal and privacy protections — principally...
There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that federal grand jury subpoenas, indictments, or sworn affidavits have been publicly filed that reference the individuals named in the viral "Riley" re...
Legal limits such as grand jury secrecy and victim‑privacy statutes have long restricted public access to high‑profile investigation records by design: to protect witnesses and targets, preserve inves...
Federal authorities have publicly released multiple categories of official records connected to Jeffrey Epstein — including hundreds of thousands of pages of DOJ material, flight logs and passenger li...
The Justice Department has released only a sliver of the material it was ordered to declassify, with specific batches such as "Phase 1" and certain datasets (notably Data Set 5 and Data Set 6) made pu...