The Daily Populous Sunday August 24th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by cnbc.com and submitted by madding_crowd_

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., participates in a subcommittee hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2025.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., in a statement on Saturday criticized the release of the first trove of documents related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as incomplete and predominately "recycled content already made available to the public."

Lee, a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, last month filed the motion to compel President Donald Trump's Justice Department to release files related to Epstein.

The Justice Department gave Congress the first batch of documents on Friday, to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee earlier this month.

But Lee said Saturday that just three percent of the 33,295 pages of documents turned over to Congress contained new information, according to Oversight Committee Democrats' initial review.

"The remaining 97% of pages included information previously released by the Department of Justice, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement or the Palm Beach County State Attorney's office," Lee said in the statement.

It wasn't immediately clear what information the documents contained and what, or how much, was redacted.

Frequent-Client1508 on August 23rd, 2025 at 21:58 UTC »

The Epstein Cover up.

waterdaemon on August 23rd, 2025 at 21:11 UTC »

Another stall tactic and probably an attempt to spin this in conservative media as having achieved optimum transparency.

Neat-Boysenberry-67 on August 23rd, 2025 at 20:51 UTC »

I'm a little surprised they didn't just send a photo of a stack of folders full of blank paper.