How the Justice Department Failed Epstein’s Victims
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Former Prince Andrew, seen in these photos kneeling over an unidentified woman. |
| 0:05.2 | The Justice Department mistakenly published personal details and unredacted photos of dozens of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. |
| 0:14.8 | I found my own date of birth, my own phone number. |
| 0:17.8 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. For a reporter |
| 0:23.0 | who's been on Epstein's trail for years, the quest for accountability goes on. |
| 0:28.9 | There are huge pages of redactions, but there is evidence of corruption. Also this week, |
| 0:37.1 | the battle over an old statue of a conquistador in San Juan |
| 0:41.4 | raises questions about who should represent Puerto Rico. |
| 0:45.9 | There was an empty pedestal just sitting there and a pantheon of heroes to fill it. |
| 0:50.6 | And yet, the government insisted it should be Ponce de Leon up there. It's all coming up |
| 0:55.6 | after this. |
| 1:00.2 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael Lohenger's out this week on a reporting trip. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. Last week, the Justice Department released the latest batch of documents |
| 1:12.9 | related to Jeffrey Epstein's criminal case. It took a law passed with near-unanimous |
| 1:18.5 | supporting Congress to finally bring these documents to light. Today we are producing more |
| 1:23.1 | than 3 million pages, including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. |
| 1:30.6 | Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly President Trump's personal attorney, |
| 1:35.5 | announcing the release of the documents in compliance with the Epstein-Files Transparency Act. |
| 1:42.2 | A rigorous process was undertaken to protect victims against any clearly unwarranted invasion of their personal privacy. |
| 1:49.0 | Clearly not rigorous enough. |
| 1:51.0 | I found my own date of birth, my own phone number. |
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