Lawmakers will be able to review the files on computers at the Justice Department starting Monday, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. They can take notes but can’t have electronic devices.

Members of Congress will be able to begin reviewing the unredacted version of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein on Monday morning, according to two sources familiar with the DOJ’s plans.

The review process will take place in person at the DOJ, according to a letter to members of Congress obtained by NBC News. The members will be able to review the material on computers at the DOJ offices but not the physical documents themselves.

The letter states that members can review the documents in person, provided they give the DOJ 24 hours’ notice. The option at this point is only available to members of Congress — and not their staff. They may take notes but can’t bring in any electronic devices, the letter said.

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    Well, time to run for congress. My platform is “I am possibly the most autistic a person can be while still being capable of public speaking. Give me 2 months in office and I will memorize and publicly recite that shit. I will be resigning immediately afterwards. I have no other policy positions/will pursue no other policy objectives.”

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    They’re only letting congress read unredacted versions of files they’ve already released to the public in redacted form. So nothing unvetted is being released to congress.

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    Amazing to me they can be held back at all. It just shows how much power the executive branch has taken. Congress should be able to do whatever they please in this regard.

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      It’s another distraction from them stealing the midterms and planning to nationalize them. Unless, they finally impeach him. But I’m guessing that won’t happen.

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    Fun fact! Epstein ran a multinational child sex ring. That means other countries with their own investigations have unredacted files as well.

    They’ll come out sooner or later.

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    If I was a Dem politician (one who actually had balls), I’d demand to read all files that mention Trump, his cronies and Israel with as many GOP politicians present as possible.

    Then make all we learned together public and call them out for knowing it too but continuing to support that pedophile asshole.

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    No electronic devices? OK, stock up on old 35mm cameras and film. And carbon paper / rubbings or whatever, copy as much as possible using non-electronic means.

    Bring in a big box of silly putty, take transfers of as much as they can.

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      This is extremely limited.

      Only the Congress members themselves can go and not their staff.

      Only the 3 million documents that they released and not the full 6 million documents.

      Realistically all they’ll be able to do is pick out a specific redacted document and look at its unredacted version.

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      If the US government had an arcane tome with spells that can kill with a word, raise the dead, and grant wishes, they would protect it less carefully than this.

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    MAGA are pretty stupid. You could probably sneak some of those Ray Ban Meta glasses in there.

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    What’s the official rules on what they can share? Like could Ro Khanna do like a AMA where we give him page numbers… solid targetted list of

    “OK so who messaged epstien about the littlest girl being very naughty”, who all were the co-conspirators listed on page X, etc…

    Is that information considered classified he’d go to jail for it? I mean technically everythings supposed to have been released from the get go…

    Because we honestly, we’ve seen more than enough to know heads need to roll, hell we can point to so many points in the files where we can see specific people that’s heads should be rolling where we just lack the names.

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      In theory anything they say in session is legal. Hence, The Pentagon Papers. Who knows how it would play out today.

      On the other hand, Gaetz and a bunch of other fuckwads basically live streamed themselves breaking into a scif.

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        I would have so loved to see every one of those fuckers arrested for that little stunt. The smug little pricks.

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    Gonna be a whole party of them locked in their offices jerking off to certain materials.

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    The lawmakers that haven’t done anything to stop ICE, curtail tarrifs, tax the oligarchs, flight for healthcare? Those lawmakers?

    Huh. Another Monday, then.