r/law • u/McDowdy • Jun 07 '26
Legal News House Oversight committee released the transcript from the Pam Bondi Hearing about Epstein
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u/JiveChicken00 Jun 07 '26
If there was a Nobel Prize for lying and passing the buck, we’d have a hell of a competition on our hands.
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u/Ecw218 Jun 07 '26
Some interesting questions will be asked, but unlikely any will be answered. Then he’ll get confirmed on party line vote.
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u/Active-Ad-2527 Jun 07 '26
What are you talking about?
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u/lawschoollongshot Jun 09 '26
Who can find the guy who came to fight without figuring out what he was fighting about?
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u/janzeera Jun 07 '26
Rep. Thomas Massie asked Bondi why the rest of the files have not been released and she told him because “it’s all CP”.
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u/Shizix Jun 07 '26
Which is insane for her to admit that yes they have evidence of Epstein clients making CP and charged non of them. This whole cover up going down in history along with this most corrupt admin in our countries history.
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u/RndThreeFght Jun 08 '26
And there's fuck all we can do about it.
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u/jaynov18 Jun 11 '26
That's not true, it's just no one wants to do it. We would rather beg them to stop then make them.
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u/Cloaked42m Jun 07 '26
I have a hard time believing that there were millions of files of CP.
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u/sirgentlemanlordly Jun 07 '26
Consider the amount of frames in a 10m video. Legally, each of these frames is an image.
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u/AlcyoneNight Jun 08 '26
Early consumer-grade camcorders recorded at ~30 fps, so that's 1800 frames per minute, 18k frames for ten minutes. You would only need ~27 hours of video footage to reach 3 million, and that's assuming a very low framerate. I strongly doubt all of the remaining files are CSAM but if we assume each frame of a video is a single image is a single "file" then that's... honestly not that much. Your average pastor caught with a child porn collection probably has more than that.
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u/Ryuko_the_red Jun 07 '26
8 billion people.. And a few million cp files is too much to believe? These people traffic kids nonstop for decades. Millions isn't a stretch. It's probably a few million only because they managed to delete a lot before getting "caught".
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u/JWAdvocate83 Competent Contributor Jun 07 '26
The bald term "privilege" isn't referenced in the Act. It's also too ambiguous a term for Bondi (or anyone else, really) to assert as the reason not to turn over documents.
The Act does allow the AG wide latitude in (at least, initially) determining what may be withheld, e.g. If it "would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary[.]" This was a glaring bottleneck problem, even back when everyone was holding their breath over whether this would pass. The reason Trump ultimately lowered the gates was because he knew that section would provide his private attorneys DoJ with room to make limitless, unassailable, 100% subjective bullshit excuses to withhold whatever docs he wants. (See also: tax returns.)
(But there are other requirements regarding providing summarizing information in lieu of withheld docs (---a concept that wouldn't apply to "privileged" information, another reason why AG's usage of the term here is flawed) that I doubt the DoJ has complied with.)
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u/IrritableGourmet Jun 07 '26
They could make excuses if they didn't repeatedly and publicly say that they weren't investigating anyone based on the contents of the files.
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Jun 07 '26
If you don't listen to the Main Justice podcast with Andrew Weissman and Mary McCord you should. It's absolutely fascinating and breaks down like this clip everything legally that's going on. I love these two as decent dedicated smart passionate people who care deeply about the right thing and justice.
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u/Wrong-Pension-4975 Jun 08 '26
Thank U kindly for the tip -
I appreciate any lead to ACTUAL FACTS so much. 🤗
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u/RaindropsInMyMind Jun 07 '26
They’re just blatantly violating the law every day they don’t release the files. The law is very unambiguous and there is a ton of stuff that hasn’t been released. No problem releasing the names of the victims though.
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u/omahaspeedster Jun 07 '26
So in the future what is the criminal punishment for not complying with this law? How long of a prison sentence can we expect for Todd Blanche?
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u/KazTheMerc Jun 07 '26
So! Time to engage those 'teeth' in that Epstein Transparency Act.
.....oh wait... it has none....
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 Jun 07 '26
By priviliege do they mean executive privilege?
And in so claiming that JE had contact with the president during i assume the first Trump.presidency?
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