Thomas Massie
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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That's a a privilege that they created at the executive branch for withholding certain Freedom of Information Act documents.
When you see redactions on FOIA, they'll cite that deliberative process privilege.
Say, oh, we all we have to do is give you the final result.
We don't have to give you what we were thinking about or how we got to that decision.
The problem with that is our bill that Rokana and I wrote says you have to give us the documents that show those decisions.
So this bill does two things to get beyond that.
Number one, it unambiguously this bill, I mean the second Epstein Files Transparency Act.
It ambiguously uses the language deliberative process instead of decision.
Now, a judge knows that those are the same thing.
So we'll put that, we've got that explicit language in there, so they can't try to argue semantics, but we also give standing to members of Congress to go to court, and you can you don't have to go to the DC district.
District and circuit to argue this stuff.
You could go to the district court, federal district court, in the state that you represent.
And Congress has the power, the authority to determine jurisdiction for these courts.
We establish the federal courts and what they may opine on.
And so that's what we do in this bill.
Uh, so the deck isn't stacked, and so that you can get standing and a judge doesn't throw it out.
It also gives standing to victims and the survivors, the victims' families and the survivors, to get their own documents where they're cited, because the DOJ is withholding 302 forms and other documents that were created on behalf of these survivors, and the survivors can't even get their own documents.
So that's another thing that it does.
Finally, it does give the the state attorneys general the authority to prosecute as under state law.
Um well
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