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What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles.
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Since the beginning of this epic screw up by the Department of Justice, and Pam Bondy
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when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, I've been calling for a special prosecutor, and that's
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because obviously we can't trust the DOJ to do the right thing, so they obviously need
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some oversight, and now there seems to be a bit of a concerted effort to try and get
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that oversight when it comes to the DOJ and the Epstein files.
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But unfortunately what they're calling for isn't going to work, because anybody who
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thinks that the inspector general is going to sort this out is crazy.
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We've been through the OIG reports about Epstein's death and about the NPA, and all it was
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was a gloss over of what went down, not one single person was held responsible, nobody
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lost a pension, nobody went to prison, not even the guards who fell asleep.
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So please spare me the nonsense and the BS calls for another internal investigation.
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This needs to be external, and it needs to be conducted by people who are not scared
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or intimidated by the Department of Justice or Donald Trump.
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Remember the inspector general still at the end of the day has to answer to the Department
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They can recommend charges, they can recommend another investigation or whatever, but that's
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They don't have any teeth, they can't do anything that's worthwhile, so why waste time?
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The real pathway to victory here is to go after a special counsel.
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You got a special prosecutor, a special counsel, somebody that has subpoena power, somebody
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that can charge people, that's the kind of power you need.
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We don't need another watchdog group with some dumbass internal report that they're
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going to massage to make the institution look better, because that's what they've been
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doing from the very beginning.
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How in the world can you look at that MPA and not know right away that the fix was in?
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How is it that the inspector general after their gigantic investigation didn't recommend
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that the MPA be done away with?
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Why did they blame everything on institutional failure?
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I'll tell you why, because that throws the wide net over everybody and gives everybody
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plausible deniability.
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Oh, it wasn't us, it was the system.
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One look, there is no doubt that there were systemic failures within that jail and systemic
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failures when it comes to the non prosecution agreement, no doubt about it.
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But the OIG was supposed to rectify those problems was supposed to fix those problems.
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And instead, what did we get?
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Nothing but lip service.
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So if anybody thinks that the OIG is going to step in here and really have some teeth
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and really get things moving, I got some bad news for you.
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Today's article is from CBS and The Headline, the late release of Epstein files triggers
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calls for internal watchdog review.
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This article was authored by Scott McFarlane.
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Amid an indefinite wait for the full release of the case files on convicted sex offender
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Jeffrey Epstein, some attention is shifting to a lesser known, if not invisible, group
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The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General.
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The Inspector General's office serves as an internal watchdog for the Justice Department.
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It staff operates an obscurity in a set of small federal offices, some in communities,
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far from Washington, D.C., including Atlanta, Tucson, and Trenton.
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Its agents and investigators monitor for fraud, abuse, and weaknesses inside the Justice
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Well, they're doing a bang up job, huh?
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There's nothing but fraud, coercion, and bullshit coming out of the DOJ.
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You think that if the OIG actually was doing their job, some of these corrupt DOJ officials
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would be getting perplocked, but that's not happening, is it?
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And it's never going to happen.
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And if anybody thinks that the OIG is going to step in and be the hero when it comes to
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Epstein, I really got bad news for you.
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We've been down this road before, and we're wasting time, and that of course plays directly
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into their hands, and that certainly helps the cover up, right?
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Oh, well, the OIG took a look, and they didn't find anything.
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So we should just move on, right?
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Like we should have moved on after the first OIG report, or the report into Jeffrey Epstein's
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death, because that really closed a lot of doors, and that really slammed the door shut
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on the investigation as a whole, and gave us all the answers we were looking for, right?
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In a growing series of formal written requests, Epstein's survivors, some members of Congress,
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and Washington-based watchdog groups, are asking the Inspector General's Office to investigate
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if the Justice Department is mishandling its legal responsibility to release the Epstein
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And look, folks, another thing about the OIG, the investigations take forever.
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We waited over three years for any movement on Jeffrey Epstein's death.
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So what do you think the OIG is going to look at this, and have a report next week?
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Yeah, I'll have a report for you, when Trump leaves office, and that's all part of the hustle.
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The idea is to tire you out, and that's why I keep saying it over and over again, because
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it's so relevant, and I want you to understand that the whole entire point is to make you
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not care anymore, to be so overwhelmed, that you just throw up your hands and say, you
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know what, we're never going to get to the bottom of this, and while it's certainly frustrating.
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So keep in mind that this is one of the final tricks.
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They have nothing left in the bag after this, right?
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We all know what's coming, we all know that there's a lot of damaging information in
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And none of their sleight of hand is going to work this time, the Trump administration,
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and its Justice Department are under increasing scrutiny and pressure for their handling of
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A federal law required the Department to release its records on Epstein by December 19,
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but government lawyers told a judge this week that only 1% of the files have been reviewed
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and released so far.
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I mean, I don't want to beat this dead horse, but how in the fuck is that even acceptable
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to anybody out there?
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Oh, there's a lot of files.
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Well, yeah, I got a lot of tax paperwork.
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What if it takes me three years to turn that in?
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How do you think that's going to work out for me?
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Or if I have some kind of court case?
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And I just say to the judge, you know what?
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I need another 17 years for discovery.
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How do you think that's going to work out?
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It's not going to work.
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You have to meet your deadlines.
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And if you're not going to meet the deadline, you have to file a motion and ask for a waiver.
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We didn't see that either, did we?
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They just did whatever they wanted, like usual.
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At me personally, I've had a belly full of that bullshit.
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Either we're all dancing to the same tune, or I'm not dancing anymore.
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The Justice Department released thousands of records on Epstein in several tranches last
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month, but it says it needs more time to pour through millions of additional documents
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and redact survivors' names and other sensitive information.
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You know, they've had these documents since Jesus was young.
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And they're out here crying and hollering and gnashing their teeth and ringing their
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hands that they need more time.
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Like how much more time do you need?
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Can we get a timeframe?
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They think this shit's a joke.
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And they think that all of their other nonsense is going to turn attention away from this.
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And it might, but not here.
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Everybody else can talk about everything else.
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We're going to talk about this topic and how the American people, the survivors, and
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the world as a whole continue to have their faces spit in by the DOJ.
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And I'll be damned if I'm distracted by any kind of shiny object.
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The Inspector General's Office has a policy of not commenting on or confirming requests
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CBS News has obtained several copies of requests for the probe.
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In a formal request submitted Wednesday, ethics attorneys with the DC-based Democracy Defenders
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Fund, as the Inspector General to determine if the Justice Department had violated the
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law by redacting information improperly in the files, failing to justify its redactions,
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or selectively releasing files for what appears to be partisan purposes.
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The Democracy Defenders Fund is represented by Norm Eisen, a former Obama administration
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ethics official who has been critical of Trump.
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Maybe you should have been a little bit more critical of Obama when he was president too,
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considering Epstein was abusing girls under Obama's watch.
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Where was his Justice Department?
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Keep in mind that this failure has been going on consistently since Clinton's first administration.
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So there's plenty of blame to go around.
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Congress has directed that the Department of Justice provide answers.
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Instead, the Department has continued to deny, deflect, and delay, Eisen said while he's
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not wrong about that.
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That's exactly what they're doing.
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And if Mr. Eisen can get some movement here and get the Inspector General involved great,
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but I think that he is barking up the wrong tree and wasting time and resources.
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Because again, the Inspector General is going to dance to the tune of the Department
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of Justice, even if they say they don't.
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And if you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, then you know how
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I feel about internal reviews anyway.
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Nobody's going to rat themselves out and nobody's hiring somebody to rat them out.
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And the same goes for the OIG and the Department of Justice.
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There is zero chance that the OIG is going to step in and give us anything meaningful
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that's going to lead to people being held accountable.
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Instead, my guess is they'll come in and they'll have another massage session, no pun intended,
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and they'll try and defend the institutions.
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Oh, it was systemic.
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Oh, there were failures, but it was just a mistake.
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Nobody did it on purpose.
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These things happen.
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Meanwhile, every single coincidence, every single break breaks in the favor and direction
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of Jeffrey Epstein.
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But sure, I guess everything's just a gigantic coincidence.
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A group of Senate Democrats and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have also
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asked for a review in a letter submitted Tuesday.
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The group said a neutral assessment of its compliance with the statutory disclosure requirements
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One of the senators Michigan Democratic Senator Gary Peters told CBS News, we want to make
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sure that all the documents are actually being presented, following the law is always
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important to have checks on that.
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Before the Department of Justice began releasing the files last month, a handful of Senate Democrats
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also requested a review to determine whether any of the records had been tampered with
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The Office of the Inspector General has a history of working on high-profile investigations
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involving the Justice Department's handling of sex crime allegations.
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In 2021, the office made headlines when it's review of the FBI's probe into convicted
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sex offender Larry Nasser, a former US gymnastics doctor found that the Bureau learned Nasser
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had been accused of molesting gymnasts in 2015, but fell to act, leaving him free to
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continue to target victims for months.
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Wait until they get a load of Epstein.
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The Office has also waited into the Epstein issue, carrying out a 2023 investigation into
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Epstein's 2019 death by suicide, allegedly, while in federal custody.
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The probe found negligence, misconduct, and outright job performance failures by federal
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Bureau prison staff.
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Yeah, how'd that work out?
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Who went to prison?
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Who ended up suffering any kind of ramifications for their behavior?
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Oh, that's right, nobody.
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A 2025 semi-annual report by the Inspector General said the office received more than 8,000
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tips and allegations in a six-month span in late 2024.
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Approximately, 100 of those allegations led the formal investigations by the office.
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A spokesperson declined the comment to CBS News about the letter submitted seeking new
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investigations about the Epstein files.
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In a series of interviews with CBS News, attorneys for survivors of Epstein's sex offenses
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have said that they have also sought or supported an Inspector General review of how the Justice
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Department is handling its responsibilities to manage the files.
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The partial initial release of Epstein case files last month revealed that an early 1996
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tip to the FBI by Epstein's Reviver Maria Farmer was not sufficiently pursued.
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Jennifer Freeman, an attorney who represents Farmer, told CBS News the Inspector General's
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Office should look into how this significant failure took place.
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But we know how it took place.
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They ignored it because Epstein was one of their assets.
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Pretty simple, man.
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We don't have to reinvent the wheel here.
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She said that the office should examine whether all Epstein-related files have been produced
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and are properly redacted, making sure victim identifying information is not disclosed.
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And those federal employees who fell to address Maria's 96 report are held accountable.
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Well, I'm sure they're all retired at this point, so what are you going to do to take
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The problem is, when the can gets kicked down the road, it's hard to enforce anything
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that's already happened.
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Statue of limitations, a whole bunch of things.
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Florida-based civil attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents Epstein's survivors, told CBS News
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victims of Epstein's offenses, want full transparency, and an opportunity to talk with the federal
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government about what they want, and do not want released.
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As for what is released, true transparency would allow independent review of redaction
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decisions, so the public can be confident nothing is being hidden unnecessarily, Kuvin
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Without third-party review, the public will never be able to have certainty that the government's
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being honest and complying with the letter of the law.
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Well, the inspector general is not going to do it.
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We need a special prosecutor, somebody that actually has some power to send people to
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Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment from CBS News,
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so what do you folks think?
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Do you think that the OIG is going to initiate an investigation, and if they do, will anyone
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be held accountable?
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Well, I have my doubts, but I'd certainly love to be wrong, but unfortunately history has
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shown us, especially when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein, that for the vast majority, these
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internal reviews are worthless, so will this time be any different?
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I hope, but I certainly have my doubts.
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