Full reality of Epstein information might come from whistleblowers offended at Trump administration’s redactions, senior Democrat says | EUROtoday

California Representative Robert Garcia urged FBI and Department of Justice workers who’re offended concerning the Trump administration’s redactions of the Epstein information to return ahead – noting there are whistleblower protections to make sure the reality will get out.

Garcia, the highest Democrat on the Oversight Committee, slammed the Trump administration for saying for months that the information associated to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein had been able to be launched – solely to closely redact the supplies and miss the authorized deadline for releasing them in full.

“To spend this entire period of time, the last few months, claiming that you have the files ready to be released… And then this all-out effort to hide them from the public, to stop the will of Congress, to not answer the oversight subpoena. What they need to understand is that there are hundreds of FBI agents and others that are good American patriots that have worked to put these files together. They know what is in them,” Garcia stated Sunday on MS NOW.

Garcia urged anybody on the FBI or Department of Justice who labored on the Epstein information – who believes their work is presently being hidden – to return ahead to the Oversight Committee.

“If you are a whistleblower at the FBI, at the Department of Justice, if you worked hard to put the files together and are seeing your work now being hidden by your own Department of Justice, contact the Oversight Committee,” Garcia stated.

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The California Democrat continued: “We have whistleblower protections. We want to make sure that the truth gets out, that the survivors are protected.”

“We are hearing from folks across our government who have seen or know what are in these files, and we want you to know that you will be protected. We want that information and the American public deserves the truth,” he concluded.

At least 16 information disappeared Saturday from the Justice Department’s public webpage for paperwork associated to Epstein – together with {a photograph} exhibiting Trump – lower than a day after they had been posted.

The lacking information, which had been accessible Friday and now not accessible by Saturday, included pictures of work depicting nude girls, and one exhibiting a collection of pictures on high of a desk and in drawers.

In that picture, inside a drawer, amongst different images, was {a photograph} of President Donald Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump, and Epstein’s longtime affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell.

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The unexpectedly lacking information fueled on-line hypothesis over what was taken down, and what could also be being lined up because of this.

The Trump administration has acquired backlash from each side of the aisle after Congress ordered the Justice Department to launch all information associated to the Epstein case by Friday, and the division solely made a small fraction of the supplies publicly accessible.

The information launched Friday provided sparse new details about disgraced financier Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell whereas awaiting his intercourse trafficking trial.

Fresh accusations of a cover-up have since emerged after the {photograph} that includes the president was taken down from the Epstein information library over the weekend.