So what Judicial Watch did was we filed a FOIA request for the records the Justice Department turned over to Congress about Epstein. We know what to do, right? We know the tricks to avoid disclosure and one way is to turn it over to Congress and hopefully keep your fingers crossed that Congress doesn’t turn the make all the records public. So last I checked, Judicial Watch filed well over 1,000 FOIA lawsuits since we’ve started operations. 1,000 FOIA lawsuits. It’s and I don’t care if politicians of either party want to move beyond an issue, if we’ve got questions about something and we have a right to the records and people are concerned about the issue and the issue is an important one for America to figure out the details of, we just keep on keeping on.

And we already have for instance a lawsuit for the Epstein records that were supposed to be released or promised to be released that have yet to be released by the Trump administration. Even though Congress has passed a law signed by President Trump requiring that the records be released as soon as I think two weeks from now, there’s still many other records that Americans haven’t seen and still won’t see even under this transparency law related to Epstein records. And the administration has rightly taken credit for records they have turned over the Congress, thousands of pages of records related to the Epstein scandal.

The challenge is we haven’t seen all the records and we’re not guaranteed to see all the records because we don’t necessarily have a right to congressional records. Did you know that? Congress can get records, they don’t have to release them. There’s no way to guarantee they release all the records they get. So we know that’s the way things work and of course the records were turned over pursuant to a subpoena. So what Judicial Watch did was we filed a FOIA request for the records the Justice Department turned over to Congress about Epstein.

We know what to do, right? We know the tricks to avoid disclosure and one way is to turn it over to Congress and hopefully keep your records crossed that Congress does in turn make all the records public. We sued for all records provided to the House Oversight Committee or the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in response to the subpoena transmitted to Attorney General Bondi in August. All records relied upon during the preparation of any response to the House Committee on Government Reform transmitted to Attorney General Bondi. So we want to know what records did you rely on when you were working on it? Was there material that was withheld? We want the details.

And internal communications or external communications depending but we wanted records of communications between the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and any other individual entity regarding the department’s response to that big subpoena. So show us the records. That’s what we want on Epstein. And I largely agree with the analysis by President Trump that the goal of the left in this case is to pretend that Trump had something nefarious to do with Epstein even though everyone knows there’s really no evidence of that. The evidence is that the left Epstein was essentially a buddy of powerful Democrats up until the end.

That’s what the records that have been released thus far document. But the American people want access to this information and we’re just going to keep on pushing for it. And we don’t think the law passed by Congress is sufficient. And that’s why we have this new lawsuit to try to get the Epstein records. I mean, it’s the third one. I think there’s at least two others, probably more. Let me see here. Yes, we sued the CIA in October. I forgot about that. The law doesn’t cover CIA records on Epstein. We also sued for the leaks of Epstein related material to the liberal media.

I mean, we’re we have foils and lawsuits for Epstein records and the Justice Department leaks it to left wing media outlets rather than complying with the law and turning the records over as they’re supposed to to Judicial Watch and others. So we want to know what’s going on there. And then, of course, we have a general lawsuit for the quote Epstein records generally that Attorney General Bondi said she quote had on her desk. She said I think she was she meant it metaphorically. But it’s strange because in that lawsuit, they told us they had no records about Epstein from Attorney General Bondi’s office, which makes zero sense.

And there’s a fourth lawsuit as well about one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Jafre. We want records from the agencies about them, about her. So one reason one way to get Judicial Watched, ask questions is to play games on records. And whether you’re Republican or Democrat, if you play games on records and the Justice Department, I think, by their own admission, would probably agree. Yeah, Tom, we didn’t handle those records all that well when we started releasing them and telling the public about what we were and weren’t going to release. And we wish we had done better.

Well, one way to do better is by complying with FOIA and releasing the records pursuant to FOIA and stop playing games by modified limited hangouts of records with friendly reporters or burying them in Congress by pretending your duty of disclosure ends after you respond to a subpoena to Congress. Now, that should just be the beginning. So I’ll let you know how this proceeds, but we’re not stopping on these Epstein files. Thanks for watching. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and like our video down below. [tr:trw].

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