"Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to Blanche on Tuesday, as reported by Bloomberg, asking why the DOJ's number 2 felt the need to personally block the Drug Enforcement Administration from releasing an unredacted 69-page document about a 2015 investigation of Epstein - and, likely more to the point, associates of Epstein's - for drug trafficking and money laundering."
"According to Wyden's letter, when the Finance Committee sought an unredacted copy from the DEA, the agency indicated that it would hand it over. Then the DEA - at the behest of Blanche, according to a confidential tip received by Wyden's office - changed its mind and the request for basic transparency about an 11-year-old investigation pulled an Epstein and died under suspicious circumstances."
"The unredacted version of this document is not even arguably classified - it's stamped "unclassified" on top of every single page - and falls squarely within the mandate of the Epstein Files Transparency Act."
The Justice Department has delayed and restricted the release of Epstein-related files despite promises of transparency. Senator Ron Wyden questioned why the Deputy Attorney General personally blocked the DEA from providing an unredacted document to Congress about a 2015 investigation into Epstein and his associates involving drug trafficking and money laundering. The document is stamped unclassified on every page and falls within the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandate. The DEA initially agreed to release the unredacted version but reversed course after the Deputy Attorney General's intervention. Wyden's letter accuses the DOJ of covering up for pedophiles and obstructing congressional investigation into Epstein's financing.
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