The Justice Department has posted on-line three FBI interviews related to sexual assault allegations towards President Donald Trump that had been lacking from the huge trove of Epstein recordsdata launched by the Department of Justice.
A NCS analysis found dozens of witness interviews had been lacking from the net archive of proof related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, all of which had been memorialized in a so-called “302” memo that lays out what an interviewee informed FBI brokers. The 302s don’t embrace different corroborating data or brokers’ opinions.
Among the lacking data had been three interviews related to a girl who informed brokers that Epstein had repeatedly abused her many years in the past, beginning when she was roughly 13 years outdated, and who additionally accused Trump of sexually assaulting her.
Trump has constantly denied wrongdoing in reference to Epstein.
Under the legislation, the DOJ can withhold recordsdata that had been duplicates, privileged, or are a part of an ongoing federal investigation.
The Justice Department has not defined why the Trump-related witness interview descriptions weren’t launched however stated in a press release final week that it had initiated a evaluate to see whether or not any paperwork had been “improperly tagged in the review process.” If that occurred , the division stated it could launch them, the assertion stated.
The Justice Department additionally republished pictures to the Epstein recordsdata library on Wednesday that had been quickly taken down after being flagged for potential nudity.
The division has been fiercely criticized for its redaction course of, and has had to repeatedly take down paperwork, edit redactions, and republish them. Among essentially the most egregious points reported had been victims whose identities, or images, had been made public with out their data.
There are nonetheless a number of thousand pictures left to repost, a division official informed NCS, which may even be achieved Thursday.