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The matter made its way into the political discourse as the House Rules Committee considered the issue, after a failed attempt by the Democrats to force a vote in Congress on whether the Epstein files should be made public.

As one of the oldest standing committees in Congress, the group's key role concerns the flow of legislation to the House floor.

Khanna's amendment was in effect a procedural measure that was tacked on to the GENIUS Act, which relates to digital assets such as crypto currency. If the amendment had been passed, it would have forced Attorney General Pam Bondi to publish the Epstein documents on a "publicly accessible website."

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I’ll bet they think this will be the end of it too.

We are due for another Snowden.

[–] KarlHungus42@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago

to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

[–] SleepyBear@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What I really wanna know is....the last we heard from the government on this the Epstein files "didnt exist". So they just voted on whether or not to release files that may or may not exist? (I know they do and this is classic fed gov lying about what information they have). But why lie about the existence of said files only to turn around and have a vote on if theyre to be released publically?

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 5 points 10 hours ago

the government

  1. These are different silos of information within the government. One demanding that the other release the information that they have.
  2. Congress could demand the DOJ release of the pee tape, the identity of any and all the reptilians in government, or photographs the moon landing set; it doesn’t mean that any of those things exist, or that the DOJ has access to them.
  3. The files exist. Everyone agrees on that. What the Bondi claims is that a client list does not exist, even though she said the client list was on her desk a little while back. She is now trying to ret-con that she meant that “the files” were on her desk, not a client list specifically.
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

All are on the list

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 1 points 8 hours ago

More like self-protectors.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

When I was a child, I was told that America was free cause it was the only country with a democracy.

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

America has never been and has never claimed to be true democracy, it's quite notably a republic.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I know. Hence my notion above about the propaganda issued to us, and how wildly incorrect that propaganda is, in all its forms.

That was the nature of what I was getting at with my initial comment. I apologize for not making that clear.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Then you must be American. Only the USA never stops telling itself and everyone else it's the only free country. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

American and definitely feeling set up and lied to, with regards to the propaganda told to me when I was a teenager.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 9 points 12 hours ago

You see they had a little vote between themselves (8 Republicans and 4 Democrats) to make this totally fair, unbiased and democratic outcome.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

So the list does exist

[–] crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

Protecting pedos and Zionist (Epstein's masters.) Their latest attempt in making it all go away was making Pam Bondi the scapegoat, that is failing. Can't wait for what they try next. Like JFK, it will never go away until the truth is revealed.