Mueller, She Wrote: Judge Beryl Howell granted my motion for expedited review in my FOIA case for the Epstein files

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NEW: Judge Beryl Howell granted my motion for expedited review in my FOIA case for the Epstein files, and invited me to file a motion for summary judgment. Which we did, and which you can read here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-fi...

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-09-20T21:31:47.533Z

In the wake of Kash Patel’s appearance before the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, and after receiving no response from the FBI pursuant to my Freedom of Information Act request to pry loose the training videos created by agencies detailing how to flag and redact Donald Trump’s name from the Epstein Files, I have filed a motion for summary judgment with DC District Judge Beryl Howell.

A motion for summary judgment is a request asking the court to make a determination in the case based on law before the case goes to trial. In this case, we’re asking the judge for a partial summary judgment - expedited relief. We contend there’s no genuine dispute that my request should be expedited.

For background, the Trump administration assigned over 1,000 FBI personnel to review nearly 300,000 pages (100,000 documents) of the Epstein files. As part of the review, the personnel were tasked with finding and flagging any mentions of Donald Trump. My exclusive reporting uncovered the existence of training videos embedded in PowerPoint presentations that gave detailed instructions to log the document number and page number where Trump’s name appears into a local Excel spreadsheet, then send their findings to a portal where the logs would be consolidated. I filed a FOIA request for those training videos, and I asked that my request be expedited because of the widespread media interest.

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In order for me to be eligible to ask for expedited processing, I have to be recognized as a representative of the news media. At first, the FBI determined that I’m NOT a member of the news media, but we appealed and won. On September 5th, we received that notification:

MORE HERE: https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-filed-a-motion-for-summary

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1. Recommended

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2. "Every single time there is a black sharpie redaction we will read it as "donald j trump"" --comment I ran into.

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3. This sounds like a very significant move.

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We have had all this stonewalling from the administration ("The files are on my desk." "What files? There never were any files" )

This FOIA request doesn't get any files. But it established exactly WHAT those 1000 agents were asked to do and what process they used.

Once they get the training video, the obvious next step is to request the logs that these agents submitted. If they can get that, this will establish HOW MANY TIMES Trump was mentioned in the Epstein documents.

And then from there, they can start identifying specific individual documents. Trump has stonewalled, and that means he will have to live with this steady drip-drip-drip. It probably would have been a lot smarter for him to release all the documents, just as he promised during the campaign. It might all have been over and forgotten by now if he had chosen that path.

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11. 1,000 Operatives of maga, want obfuscation today!*

* to be sung to the tune of "10,000 men of harvard, want victory today." Boolah boolah

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4. K&R

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5. TY & MSW, Allison Gill..

a Brilliant Civil Rights Lawyer and Strong Advocat for Dems and Patriots!

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7. She is great, isn't she, Cha!

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12. Yes! So Grateful For Allison Gill &

All Our Lawyers For Democracy!

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6. This will be fun to watch

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8. Yes it will be!

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9. KICK!!

For justice!

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