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Members of Congress will have access to unredacted copies of the more than three million documents from the Epstein files that have already been released, Axios reports.
Last week, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DoJ) requesting to see the “complete unredacted Epstein files.”
“We seek to ensure that your redactions comply with the [Epstein Transparency] Act’s requirement that materials be withheld only in narrow circumstances, such as protecting victims’ personally identifiable information, and not on the basis of ‘embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary,’” Raskin wrote.
House members and Senators will now be given full access to unredacted copies of the files starting on Monday, via computers in the reading room at the DoJ building in Washington DC.
In a letter to Congress, assistant attorney general Patrick Davis said the review is “in keeping with the Department of Justice’s commitment to maximum transparency regarding our compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”
“We are confident that this review will further demonstrate the Department’s good faith work to appropriately process an enormous volume of documents in a very short time.”
Today, Infowars reported that an official statement dating Epstein’s death to the day before he actually died is among the new files released by the DoJ.
The document, issued by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and dated Friday 9 August 2019, says Epstein had been found unresponsive and pronounced dead.
But Epstein was not discovered and found to be dead until the morning of 10 August 2019.
The statement reads, “Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
“Today’s events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein’s many victims their day in Court.
“To those brave young women who have already come forward and to the many others who have yet to do so, let me reiterate that we remain committed to standing for you, and our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment.”
Epstein was held at the Manhattan Correctional Center from 7 July 2019 until his death in August of that year. He was charged with sex-trafficking minors and conspiracy.
His death was ruled suicide by hanging.
Other newly released files provide additional details about the circumstances of Epstein’s death.
The Daily Mail reports, “According to the records, investigators from the FBI and the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General identified footage showing what appeared to be an unidentified figure moving toward the floor where Epstein was housed.
“The footage reportedly captured an orange-colored shape ascending a staircase in the vicinity of Epstein’s housing unit during the overnight hours.
“Investigators noted the movement but did not publicly conclude whether the figure had any direct connection to Epstein or his death.
“The surveillance system’s limitations and malfunctions prevented investigators from reconstructing a complete visual record of activity in the unit.”
A complete timeline of Epstein’s final hours has still yet to be established. Guards assigned to monitor Epstein did not conduct mandatory checks on him, and cameras monitoring his cell are reported to have malfunctioned.
