"Pam Bondi found the loophole she needed."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Mike Masnick
‪@mmasnick.bsky.social‬

Pam Bondi found the loophole she needed.

‪Kyle Cheney‬
‪@kyledcheney.bsky.social‬
· 2h
JUST IN: The Justice Department's bid to relesae Epstein grand jury info comes with a huge caveat that it will seek to redact not just victim info but other "personal identifying information." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

July 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Pam Bondi found the loophole she needed.

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-18T22:05:22.351Z

[gab13by13]

1. A judge should not release the transcripts

The reason for the release that the people want to know is not good enough to violate the secrecy of grand jury testimony.

[pat_k]

5. It's all an empty gesture intended to placate and blame shift...

1) As far as I can tell, no exception under which the secrecy of grand jury testimony is pierced applies here

2) Grand jury testimony is limited and focuses on providing grounds for the indictment(s) sought. They were not out to indict clients, so evidence identifying or related to specific clients isn't likely to be there.

3) This request for redaction makes it an even emptier gesture. In the incredibly unlikely case that the motion to release were granted, this is a backstop to ensure no client information (unlikely to be there at all anyway) is released.

They are banking that the motion will be denied. The company line will then be that they tried to release "it all" (utter bullshit) but the corrupt judiciary, not the regime, is keeping it secret.

[Lovie777]

2. That's not what he promised...............

shithole promised to release the list un-redacted.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. That won't satisfy the cult. Nt

[a kennedy]

4. It might.....oh, and did I forget to say fawk the orange piece of shit?

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Right. "Loopholes" are notorious term that means, cover-up.

[rsdsharp]

6. The loophole is Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6e.

She knows there are two chances the court will authorize the release with proceedings still pending in the Maxwell case: Slim and None, and Slim’s dead, and None’s living in Nebraska.

[choie]

8. The grand jury surrounded Ghislaine, not trump

So most likely he's not in the Grand Jury proceedings. I hope people understand that.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Justice Dept. asks court to release Epstein grand jury testimony

This is a stunt which would not include the vast majority of the file on Epstein. First, it is highly unlikely that the court will release these files given the appeal by Maxwell. The material in these transcripts are a very tiny part of the material in the FBI/DOJ possession.

This is a stunt to try to take pressure off trump.

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/18/bondi-epstein-files-documents-grand-jury-testimony-doj/

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal court to release grand jury transcripts connected to deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, responding to a growing political outcry over the agency’s unfulfilled promise to release more details on the government’s investigation of his alleged sex-trafficking of minors......

A judge would have to agree to release them, a process that could take weeks or months. Even then, their disclosure is by no means certain. Grand jury records are shielded by secrecy rules to protect crime victims, witnesses and the accused, and are made public only under limited circumstances......

The sealed transcripts would constitute only a fraction of the evidence and investigative material that the FBI amassed during its years-long investigation. The transcripts are unlikely to fully satisfy Trump’s right-wing base, which continues to call for full transparency surrounding the investigation.

“It is generally a very, very small portion of any investigative file,” said Christopher O’Leary, who spent more than two decades as an FBI counterterrorism agent.

The full extent of what remains under wraps is unclear. Thousands of pages of documents related to the Epstein investigation have already been released through lawsuits, court filings, public records requests and the Justice Department’s prosecution of Maxwell......

As recently as last year, the younger Comey had sought in court to keep records pertaining to some aspects of the Epstein investigation under wraps in a suit brought by the gossip website Radar Online seeking FBI records. Comey pushed against making those documents public in a January 2024 court filing, saying it could interfere with Maxwell’s ongoing appeal of her conviction and subject victims and witnesses to “embarrassment and potential harassment.”

[lame54]

10. The list without a list

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. No one asked for the Grand Jury transcripts