“Between 70 and 80 percent of the documents remain censored,” stated Khanna.
“The Department of Justice has concealed the identities of six affluent and influential individuals for reasons that are unclear,” he added.
This list reportedly includes two billionaires.
It is important to note that no one listed is accused of any criminal activity or has been charged in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s case.
The legislation enacted late last year mandated the Department of Justice to disclose all related files from their investigation into Epstein.
However, the department was allowed to withhold the names of victims from public release.
But the millions of documents released have also redacted the names of countless other people – including some seemingly connected to serious crimes.
Massie and Khanna were able to go to the department yesterday to read unredacted files from the investigation for two hours.
“If we found six men they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men there are covering up for in those three million files?” Khanna said.
Another congressman granted access to the Epstein files, Jamie Raskin, alleged that Trump’s name appeared in them “more than a million times”. Nine is not implying that appearing in the files is an indication of any criminal offence.
Trump has repeatedly stated Epstein was asked to leave Mar-a-Lago.
But the 2009 email exchange included Epstein denying the assertion.
At the time, Giuffre was a teenage masseuse working for Trump.
It was subsequently released in the Epstein files release.
The department told the BBC the date was merely a typo.
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