CNN Reporter Rips Trump DOJ For Releasing Unredacted Nude Photos in Epstein Files: ‘Really Egregious’

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes ripped the Department of Justice’s redaction fail in the latest Epstein files release after The New York Times flagged dozens of nude photos of “young women or possibly teenagers.”

The Times report from Sunday said, “The people in the photos appeared to be young, although it was unclear whether they were minors. Some of the images seemed to show Mr. Epstein’s private island, including a beach. Others were taken in bedrooms and other private spaces.”

“The images appeared to show at least seven different people, although The Times did not seek to identify them,” the report added.

Holmes commented Monday, “I mean, this is really egregious.”

“According to The New York Times, they went through these millions of documents and found at least 40 images, nude images that included no redactions, included faces,” Holmes said. “They seem to be part of Epstein’s personal file. And since then, the Department of Justice has taken them down after they were flagged to them by The New York Times. But of course, how long were they up there before they came down?”

She continued:

And we did get this statement just moments ago from the Justice Department spokesperson, who said, “The Justice Department takes victim protection very seriously and has redacted thousands of victims names in the millions of pages to protect the innocent. The department had 500 reviewers looking at millions of pages for this very reason to meet the requirement of the Act while protecting victims. When a victim’s name is alleged to be unredacted, our team is working around the clock to fix the issue and republish appropriately redacted pages as soon as possible. To date, .1% of released pages have been found to have victim identifying information unredacted.”

I do just want to make one thing very clear here…even if it’s just 0.1%, these are people’s lives. There are a lot of victims who didn’t want to be publicly associated with this, who didn’t want their name out there. Of course, we’ve seen those victims who were out there and the public face of this, but that is not all of Epstein’s victims. So even if it’s just 0.1%, that is too much to these people who have been trying to move on with their lives. And now being publicly exposed here in these documents.

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