If only I could say that I am surprised.
"Ghislaine Maxwell court materials to stay secret, judge rules"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jnn2r7r47o
Now if only the BBC had covered that the judge referred to the dictator's administration admitting in public * to holding considerably more information than was in the grand jury evidence and that this was basically a diversion tactic.
āA member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the governmentās motion for their unsealing was aimed not at ātransparencyā but at diversion ā aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such.ā
āContrary to the governmentās depiction, the Maxwell grand jury testimony is not a matter of significant historical or public interest,ā he added. āFar from it. It consists of garden-variety summary testimony by two law enforcement agents.ā
Edited to add
*
As part of our commitment to transparency, the Department of Justice and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation have conducted an exhaustive review of investigative holdings relating to
Jeffrey Epstein. To ensure that the review was thorough, the FBI conducted digital searches of its
databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked
cabinets, desks, closets, and other areas where responsive material may have been stored. These
searches uncovered a significant amount of material, including more than 300 gigabytes of data
and physical evidence.
(Part of FBI
memo July 2025)
