Stephen Fowler

Notably, there aren't many mentions of the president in this latest release.

He was a longtime friend of Epstein before they had a falling out and has appeared in previously released files.

Eighty percent of it comes from public court records for more than 50 cases against Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and others.

There's about 4,000 files and about 8,500 pages that fall under this new transparency act.

Most of those are photos of Epstein's estate and his travels with people like former President Bill Clinton, among others.

And there's this previously undisclosed FBI report from 1996, 30 years ago, that accused Epstein of child pornography crimes and allegedly threatened to burn the accuser's house down if she told anyone about it.

Even then, there are hundreds of pages, just straight up redacted black boxes, all over things like grand jury information that do leave a lot of questions.

The DOJ says its review of the files found more than 1,200 victims and families and wrote in a separate court filing Friday that redactions include people who may not actually be victims as they err on the side of what they say might be viewed as an over-redaction, taking out more than may be required by law out of an abundance of caution.

This could also explain why there will be more than one release of documents.

On Friday night, there were more files that were uploaded.

Not all of them are happy.

Remember, this was a near-unanimous law that was passed through Congress.

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California, who co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act, told All Things Considered yesterday that the released files weren't what he expected or wanted.

He says there's too many redactions and missing information altogether.

Here's an example.

That indictment should be released.

His Republican co-sponsor Thomas Massey of Kentucky said that impeachment could be on the table for officials involved, though Congress is out of session for a while over the holidays.

Like Khanna said, it's notable all of the things that aren't in the files that have been released and that some people think will never be.

There's an FBI memo from over the summer that said about 300 gigabytes of evidence is in their possession.

And the way President Trump has handled this by fanning flames of conspiracy on the campaign trail, then attacking his supporters for wanting to know more once he took office, has basically made it where nobody is set to be satisfied with the information that is available.