{"id":81256,"date":"2026-03-11T07:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81256"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:43:36","slug":"investigations-over-redacted-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/investigations-over-redacted-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigations Over Redacted Epstein Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From CNBC:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan group of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/congress\/\">senators<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday called on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/12\/04\/government-accountability-office-opens-investigation-into-fhfa-chief-bill-pulte.html\">Government Accountability Office<\/a>\u00a0to investigate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2020\/06\/17\/department-of-justice-proposal-would-limit-sec-230-liability-shield.html\">Department of Justice<\/a>\u2019s release and redactions of documents related to disgraced sex offender\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/19\/jeffrey-epstein-files-doj-release-order-maxwell.html\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>.\u00a0The letter, signed by Sens.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/02\/11\/trump-fbi-kash-patel-perjury-durbin.html\">Dick Durbin<\/a>, D-Ill.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/02\/democratic-sen-ben-ray-lujan-expected-back-to-work-in-4-6-weeks-after-surgery-for-stroke.html\">Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/a>, D-N.M.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-merkley\/\">Jeff Merkley,<\/a>\u00a0D-Ore.,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/lisa-murkowski\/\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a>, R-Alaska, alleges the DOJ did not comply with a law that aimed to compel the release of the Epstein files while protecting victims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"BoxInline-container  \">\n<div id=\"BoxInline-ArticleBody-5\" class=\"BoxInline-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\">\u201cContrary to Congress\u2019s explicit directive to protect victims, these records included email addresses and nude photos in which the names and faces of publicly-identified and non-public victims could be identified,\u201d the lawmakers wrote. \u201cBut when it came to information identifying powerful business and political figures who are alleged coconspirators or material witnesses, DOJ appears to have heavily redacted those records.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773215016\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Investigations Over Redacted Epstein Files\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNBC: A bipartisan group of\u00a0senators\u00a0on Wednesday called on the\u00a0Government Accountability Office\u00a0to investigate the\u00a0Department of Justice\u2019s release and redactions of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}