When the Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, survivors, advocates and lawmakers quickly raised questions about an apparent discrepancy: the DOJ had said it collected more than 6 million pages of material during its investigation but was only releasing half that number.
The Justice Department tells CBS News it “has released every document required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act,” and maintains that those unreleased 3 million documents were either duplicative, unrelated to Epstein or protected by legal privilege.
But concerns persist about evidence that important documents are still being withheld. CBS News has analyzed the archive not only for what has been disclosed, but also for documents that appear to be absent. Our key findings include:
- Questionable redactions, including public figures’ names
- Most Epstein emails from older accounts not included in files
- Missing email attachments
- No record of Signal communications
- Lack of massage scheduling records after 2009
- Missing prison surveillance footage
- Missing documents from DEA investigation into Epstein
- Other potentially relevant materials from ICE, Treasury, CIA and other agencies were not included because the law only applies to DOJ records.
The Government Accountability Office recently announced it was launching an investigation into the way documents that were released had information blacked out. That move comes at the request of several members of Congress.
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