Rep. Ro Khanna
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A mistake in terms of what he ended up doing?
Yeah, but they didn't approach this in terms of any good faith.
And once he started doing things that violated basic constitutional rights, I was one of the first people to call him out on it.
because there was no accountability, because they've been covering up so many.
It's because Massey and I did that, and I went to the floor, that two of the people finally had accountability.
The Sultan, who was the CEO of Dubai, who resigned, and Les Wexner.
And yes, he was in other parts of the file, but this was the part which said he was a co-conspirator.
And finally, they were acknowledging that.
Now, it turns out that they did not tell us that six of the men whose pictures were there
were pictured with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein because they were part of a lineup.
And even when Massey and I asked them for clarification, they just unredacted it without context.
And that was, in my view, a total breach by the Department of Justice.
I've since talked to at least one of the men and, you know, invited him to come to the Capitol and said that, you know, I'm happy to make it very, very clear that they had nothing to do with Epstein.
But the problem here is the way the Justice Department has redacted these files.
No, my concern is that the DOJ is covering up.
My concern is that the DOJ is still covering up for predators.
My concern is that the DOJ did not provide the context for a lineup when they could have.
And when Massey and I asked them for that, my concern is that there are so many people in these files that they still are protecting.
And the question is, why are they protecting these rich and powerful people?
And there's still so many of these survivors whose names they