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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop redacting Epstein documents, saying the public has a right to know. New records reveal the FBI ignored a 2006 tip from Hugh Hefner about Epstein's trafficking.
A federal judge ordered the Trump DOJ to stop redacting Epstein documents, saying the public has a right to know. Simultaneously, newly released records show the FBI received a tip in 2006 from Hugh Hefner about Epstein's trafficking and apparently did nothing with it. A 15-year gap between the tip and serious investigation emerged.
The judge's order is about current conduct—the Trump administration blocking records—but it's enforcing accountability for past conduct that predates this administration. What's striking is that the FBI got actionable intelligence about trafficking in 2006 but didn't act on it for years. That's not bureaucratic slowness; that's a failure to prioritize a crime the FBI knew was happening. The Trump administration inheriting a backlog of redacted files and continuing to redact them looks, from the bench, like continuing the cover-up.
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