00:00More than a thousand vulnerable girls and young women were identified, groomed, trafficked, and abused in a system Jeffrey Epstein
00:09built around power, coercion, exploitation, and access to wealth and influence.
00:16The partial release of the Epstein files, riddled with redactions that expose identifying information about survivors while protecting perpetrators, is
00:26not just bureaucratic incompetence.
00:29My name is Liz Stein. In 1994, I was 21 years old and a senior in college when I met
00:37Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.
00:40For years, the Epstein case has been treated like entertainment in this country.
00:45A spectacle, a conspiracy theory, an endless cycle of headlines and social media focused on sensationalism and powerful people.
00:55Republicans versus Democrats, conspiracy versus cover-up, left versus right.
01:02That framing is wrong.
01:04What has gotten lost in all of this is the reality of what this is, the crime of sex trafficking.
01:10More than a thousand vulnerable girls and young women were identified, groomed, trafficked, and abused in a system Jeffrey Epstein
01:21built around power, coercion, exploitation, and access to wealth and influence.
01:29And I think many Americans still do not fully understand what that means, because if they did, they would never
01:37accept the way that this case is being handled.
01:40The partial release of the Epstein files, riddled with redactions that expose identifying information about survivors while protecting perpetrators, is
01:51not just bureaucratic incompetence.
01:54It reflects something much deeper about whose dignity our Department of Justice is prioritizing and whose suffering it is willing
02:05to sacrifice.
02:06And survivors see that clearly.
02:09For survivors, privacy is safety.
02:12Privacy is dignity.
02:14Privacy is the ability to rebuild a life without being retraumatized by the very institutions that are supposed to protect
02:22us.
02:24And while survivors identifying information was exposed, the Department of Justice is simultaneously telling the American people that there are
02:32no additional investigative leads worth pursuing.
02:36We can see with our own eyes when we look at the Epstein files that this is not true.
02:42These files contain leads, names, connections, friendships, patterns, witnesses, travel records, financial relationships, and institutional failures.
02:56In any other sex trafficking case of this magnitude, those leads would be aggressively pursued.
03:03But in this case, they have not been.
03:05And as citizens of this country, we should all be asking why.
03:10That is why people are losing trust in our Department of Justice.
03:14Not because this case is politically inconvenient, but because Americans understand instinctively that justice should not operate differently for wealthy
03:25people who have power.
03:26And that is also why many of us have serious concerns about today's proceedings.
03:32This should not be a transcribed interview.
03:36Former Attorney Pam Bondi should testify under oath on video with a full transcript and recording released publicly.
03:45Because the American people deserve transparency, and accountability cannot only exist when it is politically convenient.
03:54For survivors, this has never been about politics.
03:58It's about whether we, as victims of this crime, matter when the cameras are off.
04:03It's about whether the United States Department of Justice is willing to fully confront a massive sex trafficking operation when
04:12wealthy and powerful people are implicated.
04:15That should concern every American.
04:18Because if the law only applies selectively, it is liberty for some, but not justice at all.
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