Deputy AG Blanche defends Epstein files release as survivors slam administration over redaction failures

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Source: ABC News

February 1, 2026, 11:14 AM


Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department's release of more than 3 million pages from the department's files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as insufficient and filled with redaction errors.

"We took great pains, as I explained on Friday, to make sure that we protected victims," Blanche told ABC News' "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. "Every time we hear from a victim or their lawyer that they believe that their name was not properly redacted, we immediately rectify that."

Blanche said that redaction errors only impact "about .001% of all the materials."

"We knew this -- I said this on Friday -- that that, of course, the nature of this type of review was so -- the volume of materials that were reviewed, that there would be times when this happened. And so we're, we're working hard to make sure that we fix that, and I expect that that will continue," he said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/deputy-ag-defends-epstein-files-release-survivors-slam/story?id=129749781

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With a dramatic Hollywood flourish, Bondi insisted that she had the files "on her desk", and almost a year later, it took a law to force action and even then, they were given a month to move it and ignored that, blowing past the deadline.

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1. He blatantly lied about his interview with Maxwell

so are we to believe him now?

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2. They lie and they never admit errors.

Victims are furious that their names were not redacted as they should have been. Nothing he says is true.

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3. And furious because not all perpetrators have been outed.

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4. Photos released in Epstein dump not enough evidence to prosecute, Blanche

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday said the latest drop of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes do not contain enough evidence to bring additional charges against any possible co-conspirators, despite the batch containing seemingly revealing communications and photos.

In an interview with Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Blanche said the DOJ reviewed the files last summer and concluded there was nothing that allowed the department to prosecute anybody.

“There's a lot of correspondence, there's a lot of emails, there's a lot of photographs — there's a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or people around him, but that doesn't allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody,” Blanche said.

He added that with the pages now released to the public, "the entire world" can look at the documents "and see if we got it wrong."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/photos-released-epstein-dump-not-163627036.html

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5. Last resort is NOVEMBER for

THE TRUTH!!

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6. I'm curious. Is Blanche on a Trump retainer?

Is he still being paid as Trump's personal lawyer? And Deputy AG? That must be illegal.

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7. Odd that "001% of all the materials" always seem to be...

…the files most damning to “Dear Leader” and his accomplices.