This Congresswoman indicates files are very, very dark

[cally]

Somehow, her reaction gives me hope that a sitting Congresswoman shows human reaction to these files and what’s in them. Maybe members like her will be able to finally take some action.

Identifies that the FBI ignored the crimes since 2006.

Rep. Stansbury: I viewed the unredacted Esptein files earlier today

[SheltieLover]

1. FBI ignored the crimes since 2006. Let that sink in...

[WarGamer]

2. FIVE different administrations...

How many Attorney's General and how many FBI Directors is that?

[in2herbs]

5. There has never been a D as FBI Director. nt

[misanthrope]

9. I thought the AG was de facto leader of DOJ

It doesn't just have to be a failure of the FBI only.

[ananda]

14. That is, if he chooses to lead decently.

Nuff said.

[dpibel]

15. DON'T BLAME REPUBLICANS!!!1!!

Did I read you right? I think I did.

Pro tip: Good try by not writing "Attorney Generals." But there's no apostrophe in Attorneys General.

[maddiemom]

23. Your English teachers should salute you!

I wondered who'd catch that! REALLY nice try, though, War Gamer.

[pandr32]

3. "Dark, disturbing, and disgusting" doesn't just describe the files.

Look who is sitting in the vandalized White House while wrecking our government and people's lives.

[Skittles]

16. yes

and don't even get me started on the people who voted for that fascist pervert

[misanthrope]

4. One correction to the Congresswoman

She called the refusal to adequately pursue the case initially as its "original sin."

Wrong. The original sin is that America views wealth and power as a designator of value rather than cause for suspicion. Everything else stems from that primary point.

[Scruffy1]

7. Very well said. n/t.

[FakeNoose]

10. Agree, however Americans are raised to believe what the media tells us

Having faith in the US media may be our primary error.

I don't call it a "sin" because we were raised to believe the media (e.g. Walter Cronkite et al.) The Billionaire Cabal (owners of the GOP) has understood this for many years, and they have usurped ownership of the media for this very reason.

Where did it all go wrong? I'd take a hard look at Ronald Reagan's very first act as President in 1981 when he struck down the Fairness Doctrine. That ushered in the "hate radio" programs a la Rush Limbaugh, and eventually by 1990, Faux Noise and all of its copiers/ competitors. Now it's 2026 and we're dealing with 30 years of lies and "fake news" on the internet, and I don't have to go into that. It's something we all see on a daily basis.

If the Fairness Doctrine hadn't been removed, none of the other shit would have been possible.

[misanthrope]

12. I understand, however

our unhealthy relationship with avarice and materialism was already obvious when the only media available was print. I have seen it noted back to the early 19th century.

[calimary]

20. Yep. Most, if not ALL, of it routes back to Ronnie.

In one way or other, directly and indirectly.

[LoisB]

17. Amen!

[Marie Marie]

6. She is visibly shaken by what she read and it reminds that Trump mused to one or more

of his WH insiders that "it was just a different time back then" - as if any of this was ever OK. He and everyone of these rich f&*ks need to go down - hard.

[Fla Dem]

8. One of the more thorough and explicit statements I've read or heard on the Epstein files.

The only time I've heard/read that Trump is mentioned many times in the files as an active participant

[niyad]

11. As Ii understand it, first reports to fbi were in the mid-90's, ignored.

[cally]

18. That's my understanding, also

I have heard there was an FBI proposed indictment(?) that Bush admin. Ended. This is both Republican and Democratic administrations.

[llmart]

13. Why did it have to take so many years to get this out in the open and we're only hearing little dribs and drabs of it.

It had to take so many different people to cover up for the pedophiles and the GOP is covering up for Trump and has been covering up for him for years now. I'm not surprised the FBI looked the other way at a lot of this. I don't trust anybody in this administration.

I have no words any more to describe my rage at this! He belongs in a jail cell and I will never be able to wrap my mind around how he ended up twice as our "President". So much speculation about the "pee tape" when the stuff that we are learning is so much more horrendous than that, yet he still sits there in OUR White House.

I want him gone - like yesterday. He had his marching orders from Putin long ago and he came into this term probably being told he better get Project 2025 all completed right off the bat because his past is catching up with him.

[Pinback]

24. Kompromat.

It looks like Epstein had explosive incriminating evidence on a lot of people.

[ColoringFool]

19. There is torture, murder, rape, and WORSE depravity therein.....

It is only because normal minds reject both the reality and the will to punish that these criminals will never---NEVER---be pursued by Lady Justice.

Sure, we hanged a few Nazis, but we not only let the majority re-enter society; we INVITED SOME HERE To run our space program! The government of the erstwhile Allied Commander of D-Day decided that our recent Soviet Allies were to be our focus.

This pedophile/trafficking scandal is on an unfathomable scale, involving "important" and powerful people, with innumerable victims from iteral newborns to 17, taking place on planes, trains, and automobiles, private yachts, mansions, estates, and islands.

I doubt if many Americans have caught on that GOVERNMENTS COULD BE BROUGHT DOWN BY THESE REVELATIONS.

I am aware, too, that many want to disbelieve the worst, and so they apply what they consider a pejorative "Conspiracy Theorist" whilst simultaneously KNOWING that DJT, JE, Wexner, et al. WERE AND THE LIVING STILL ARE CONSPIRATORS.

[dalton99a]

21. Boebert: "Ghislaine Maxwell should get more time and she should definitely be in a harsher prison than what she's in"

“I think Ghislaine Maxwell should get more time and she should definitely be in a harsher prison than what she’s in. It’s absolutely disgusting,” Boebert said.

Boebert made the comments after she and other lawmakers visited a Justice Department office on Monday to look through unredacted versions of the files on Epstein that the department released to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lauren-boebert-has-angry-reaction-after-viewing-unredacted-epstein-files/ar-AA1W3jg8

[aeromanKC]

22. Names!! We want more names!!