cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35963824

Via The Hill

Republican lawmakers say it now appears certain that a discharge petition that’s being circulated in the House by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) will get enough signatures by the end of the month to force a vote on a bill directing Bondi to release the Epstein files.

Massie and Khanna are only one vote short of getting 218 signatures to force a vote on their bill.

Once Arizona holds a special election Sept. 23 to fill the vacant seat of Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who died earlier this year, they’re likely to reach the threshold

  • Alloi@lemmy.world
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    37 minutes ago

    “i guess theres nothing we can do except release the files, and you’ll just have to believe they are the real ones…our hands… are tied… :(”

    its crazy how many people are willing to defend pedophiles if it advances their agenda.

    crazy how the absence of empathy makes people literally insane, its almost as if they are mentally ill and not fit for positions of power, or something.

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    3 hours ago

    Show of hands who believes that we’ll get unaltered files that do anything but exonerate Trump? I hope nobody is really banking on any damning revelations.

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    Below is an excerpt:

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    Bill Clinton
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    George Soros
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    LITERALLY ANYONE NOT WITH OR FRIENDS OF THE GOP

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    7 hours ago

    Question coming from my own ignorance but how do we know they haven’t tampered with the files by this point? It seems like they control enough of the government to get agents that would be willing to delete it modify evidence, I’m just not sure what controls are in place to ensure that nothing has been tampered with

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    Oh, they’ll “release” it all right. But they’ll narrow down the scope as much as possible to some combination of “things that have already been released”, “things that can’t be released” (ie, the grand jury records, which are pretty much never released and which require judicial approval), , and “new things the public hasn’t seen yet but which are redacted to near total blackness”.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      The grand jury thing seems like a red herring to me. Nothing should be in the grand jury files that isnt already in the rest of the investigation files because that’s where they got the information to present to the grand jury in the first place.