{"id":38292,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/epstein-survivors-call-out-trumps-justice-department-for-extreme-redactions-in-latest-file-release-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","slug":"epstein-survivors-call-out-trumps-justice-department-for-extreme-redactions-in-latest-file-release-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/epstein-survivors-call-out-trumps-justice-department-for-extreme-redactions-in-latest-file-release-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein survivors call out Trump\u2019s justice department for \u2018extreme redactions\u2019 in latest file release \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statement says the release was \u2018a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/22\/schumer-doj-epstein-senate-legal-action\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Schumer to ask Senate to back legal action over partial Epstein files release<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianstelter\/status\/2002939349751742831\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> that some <strong>CBS<\/strong> staffers are \u201cthreatening to quit\u201d over the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/dec\/22\/cbs-news-delays-60-minutes-segment-featuring-investigation-into-cecot-megaprison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancellation of a 60 Minutes investigation<\/a> into the brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-prison-trump-deportations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CECOT prison<\/a> in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Editor-in-chief <strong>Bari Weiss<\/strong>\u2019s decision to pull the story \u2013 taken last night three hours before broadcast &#8211; has been blasted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/22\/reaction-limited-epstein-files-photos-us-politics-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-694954748f087ccaa8450ce6#block-694954748f087ccaa8450ce6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">members<\/a> of Congress and the veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/22\/reaction-limited-epstein-files-photos-us-politics-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-694953288f087ccaa8450cd5#block-694953288f087ccaa8450cd5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">correspondent<\/a> involved, <strong>Sharyn Alfonsi<\/strong>, who had interviewed people deported by the Trump administration to the notorious mega-prison about the \u201cbrutal and torturous conditions\u201d they faced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/22\/reaction-limited-epstein-files-photos-us-politics-latest-updates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statement says the release was \u2018a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation\u2019 Schumer to ask Senate to back legal action over partial Epstein files release CNN reports that some CBS staffers are \u201cthreatening to quit\u201d over the controversial cancellation of a 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 17:18:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}