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Significant pressure is mounting for full transparency regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files, revealing a conflict between congressional factions and the Department of Justice (DoJ) over the extent of redactions. House Leadership Opposition to Discharge Petition: Speaker Mike Johnson is actively warning Republican members not to sign Rep. Thomas Massie's discharge petition. Johnson argues that Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) committee approach to document release, though heavily redacted, is "satisfactory." Massie's Argument for Full Disclosure: Rep. Massie (R-KY) explicitly distrusts the DoJ's redaction process, stating, "What's clear is they're not redacting just to protect victims; they are redacting to protect reputations." He demonstrated this by showing a DoJ-released flight log where "Every name was redacted," making it "very unlikely that everyon ...
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