Lawmakers will be able to review the files on computers at the Justice Department starting Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. They can take notes but can’t have electronic devices.

Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans.

The review process will take place in person at the DOJ, according to a letter to members of Congress obtained by NBC News. The members will be able to review the material on computers at the DOJ offices but not the physical documents themselves.

The letter states that members can review the documents in person, provided they give the DOJ 24 hours’ notice. The option at this point is only available to members of Congress — and not their staff. They may take notes but can’t bring in any electronic devices, the letter said.

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    Until he’s impeached, convicted and removed from office and his adminstration prosecuted, convicted and jailed. I don’t want to hear about Epstein. Or Trump.

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    Well, time to run for congress. My platform is “I am possibly the most autistic a person can be while still being capable of public speaking. Give me 2 months in office and I will memorize and publicly recite that shit. I will be resigning immediately afterwards. I have no other policy positions/will pursue no other policy objectives.”

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      I have no other policy positions/will pursue no other policy objectives."

      Except I will ensure that the army develops large 20 metre high robots that I call Battlemechs.

      And we shall paint them blue, gold, white, red, green and not red and black.

      Coz fuck Kurita

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        I don’t remember the lore well enough. I seem to recall having a hate boner for Smoke Jaguar. I don’t remember why. What did house Kurita do?

        Edit: oh and to ensure they are proper battlemechs, they have to be able to walk and jump! None of the continuous track BS that they used at the so-called “first battlemech fight,” a few years ago.

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    We need congressional representatives who are young and have photographic memories to view this shit.

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    No electronic devices? OK, stock up on old 35mm cameras and film. And carbon paper / rubbings or whatever, copy as much as possible using non-electronic means.

    Bring in a big box of silly putty, take transfers of as much as they can.

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      This is extremely limited.

      Only the Congress members themselves can go and not their staff.

      Only the 3 million documents that they released and not the full 6 million documents.

      Realistically all they’ll be able to do is pick out a specific redacted document and look at its unredacted version.

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        A lot of these items are sandwiched with anonymous tip call docs so there are lots of crazy BS claims interspersed with actual stuff that happened in order to discredit the actual stuff that happened.

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    Amazing to me they can be held back at all. It just shows how much power the executive branch has taken. Congress should be able to do whatever they please in this regard.

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    Fun fact! Epstein ran a multinational child sex ring. That means other countries with their own investigations have unredacted files as well.

    They’ll come out sooner or later.

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      If the US government had an arcane tome with spells that can kill with a word, raise the dead, and grant wishes, they would protect it less carefully than this.

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    They’re only letting congress read unredacted versions of files they’ve already released to the public in redacted form. So nothing unvetted is being released to congress.

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    If I was a Dem politician (one who actually had balls), I’d demand to read all files that mention Trump, his cronies and Israel with as many GOP politicians present as possible.

    Then make all we learned together public and call them out for knowing it too but continuing to support that pedophile asshole.

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      I have no hope that the American government will do anything. It reaches too many people, and they aren’t going to punish themselves.

      There will be a few head shakes, some words about needing to do better. But the American government does not truly stand on the side of protecting the vulnerable, and I don’t believe it ever will.

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        I don’t either. And the America we were sold on, never existed to begin with. It’s amazing how thin that veil turned out to be. I wonder if all the talk about the military being the dividing wall between a fascist regime and a civil war was bullshit too.

        I’ve a feeling we’re going to find out.

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      It’s another distraction from them stealing the midterms and planning to nationalize them. Unless, they finally impeach him. But I’m guessing that won’t happen.

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      If by “victims” you mean “the people whose lives will be ruined if the unredacted files are fully released”, then yes.

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          I think of them all the time!

          Sometimes, they’re crucified alive along the streets into major cities. Other times they’re guillotined on public television. Anymore, it’s just injecting them alive with raw sewage and then slowly ripping them apart with a medieval torture racks right before they succumb to sepsis.

          I’m an empath and nothing in this world drives me to homicidal thoughts than those fuckers and how much they have fucked everything in the world because they can. The more I learn the more I’m ready to drive a stake through their cold, dead hearts!

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    Gonna be a whole party of them locked in their offices jerking off to certain materials.