Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says

[Norbert]

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A supervising prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida’s US Attorney’s Office emailed the entire district office on Tuesday — two days before Christmas — announcing an “emergency request from the [Deputy Attorney General’s] office the SDFL must assist with,” according to a copy of the email reviewed by CNN. “We need AUSAs to do remote document review and redactions related to the Epstein files,” the email said.

The email raises the possibility of more Epstein files being released over the coming days, including the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. It also underlines the public and political backlash the Justice Department has faced since the deadline passed on Friday to release all documents in the federal government’s possession, as mandated by an act of Congress calling for transparency around Epstein files. The Justice Department acknowledged it had not gotten through redacting many of the files by Friday and has continued to release documents this week.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions from CNN about the email on Tuesday.

The Christmas-week request, from a top career prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office, attempts to entice volunteer attorneys to work on the files now, in exchange for days off later. It’s also possible that the call for volunteers frustrates busy career Justice Department employees after a year of departures and firings across the ranks by Trump administration leadership, as well as several in-court incidents that have hurt the department’s reputation in the legal community.

Hoping they get a collective three word answer, "Not my problem."

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[AZJonnie]

1. Sure, delay, then release them over the holidays, when the fewest people are likely to be keeping up with the news

That's not obvious or anything

[pfitz59]

2. Scrub a dub!

Cross our fingers they'll miss more dirt! Or that an ethical employee will emerge, at last. 'Pentagon Papers' time. Epstein is Trump's ' Achille's Heel'. We can't let this opportunity slip away.