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more documents with potential links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Already in violation of a legislatively-mandated Dec 19 deadline to release all such files -- and facing demands for an audit of its handling of the process -- the DOJ says the enormous new tranche of documents will require "weeks" of additional work before they can be posted.

“We have lawyers working around the clock to review and make the legally required redactions to protect victims, and we will release the documents as soon as possible,” the DOJ said. “Due to the mass volume of material, this process may take a few more weeks. The Department will continue to fully comply with federal law and President Trump’s direction to release the files.” The DOJ said the documents come from the Southern District of New York and the FBI.

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who's been the Capitol Hill's leading voice on Epstein-file declassification, indicated the staggering volume of newly-acknowledged documents gives new reason to question the lack of additional prosecutions beyond Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell:

Today the DOJ claims the Epstein-Maxwell file exceeds 1.7 million documents.

And they still expect you to believe this involves only two guilty people.

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2003988480792396114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Employing more pointed rhetoric, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, https://x.com/OversightDems/status/2003917738834903151?s=20

the Trump administration is "openly engaged in a cover-up protecting Epstein's co-conspirators and the powerful men who abused women and girls."

Also on Christmas Eve -- and before the million-document "discovery" was announced -- a group of 12 senators sent a https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/20251224lettertodojoigonepsteinreleasefinal.pdf

to DOJ Acting Inspector General Don Berthiaume demanding an audit of the DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. Beyond pointing to the failure to meet the Dec. 19 deadline, the senators said the huge number of redactions in the released documents have raised "serious questions as to whether the Department is properly applying the limited exceptions for redaction that are permitted under the Act. Any withholding or redaction beyond those specified circumstances is against the law." Eleven of the 12 signatories were Democrats, with Alaska's Lisa Murkowski the only Republican.

On Sunday, Massie and California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said they were in discussions with other members of Congress about potentially holding Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt -- over the DOJ's failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act enacted in November. "We only need the House for inherent contempt," Khanna said on https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-massie-ro-khanna-face-the-nation-transcript-12-21-2025/

, "and we're building a bipartisan coalition, and it would fine Pam Bondi for every day that she's not releasing these documents."

Khanna also decried the volume of redactions in the files that have been released. "The redactions were excessive. And even Harvard Law professors who have looked at that have said, you can't redact internal communications, you can't redact workforce product, and the courts are going to find that these were excessive."

Are these the "narrowly tailored" and "segregable" redactions that the drafters of the "Epstein Files Transparency Act" had in mind? https://t.co/z22j7GEcYt

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/2002178550305095701?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Transparency advocates have been exasperated by the amount of content that's been redacted -- with hundreds and hundreds of pages completely blacked out. However, raising additional questions about the DOJ's competence, some of the department's black ink turned out to be see-through, as internet sleuths discovered some of the redacted Epstein files can be read by simply cutting and pasting blacked-out passages into a new document. While they first bloomed on social media, the easily-erasable DOJ redactions have been subsequently reported by https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/epstein-unredacted-files-social-media

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‼️🇺🇸: I can CONFIRM that the Epstein copy/paste hack does INDEED show redacted text from the DOJ Epstein Transparency Act Files

That said, We should do everything we can to not publish Epstein Survivors names.

I will be doing batch unredactioms tomorrow for us to go through. 🫡 https://t.co/v6o929WcO5

— Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) https://twitter.com/DiligentDenizen/status/2003675033315746159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

It's not clear how many documents have been incompetently redacted. While no bombshells have yet been uncovered, the un-redactions may be damning in a different kind of way, as they might demonstrate DOJ is failing to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act's mandate for maximum disclosure, with redactions only allowed for a https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4405/text

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For example, one of the documents that's been cleansed of black-outs and posted to social media is an exhibit from a civil suit against two executors of Epstein's estate -- Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn. Two of the redacted passages read:

“Between September 2015 and June 2019, Indyke signed (FAC) for over $400,000 made payable to young female models and actresses, including a former Russian model who received over $380,000 through monthly payments of $8,333 made over a period of more than three and a half years until the middle of 2019.” ...

“Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse, conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct."

It's not clear why these entire passages would be redacted. Even if there were reasons to hide Indyke's name, it's far from clear why the other allegations would be hidden from the public.

While ZeroHedge readers may differ with Khanna on a long list of issues, he raised some important questions on Meet the Press:

"I guess the question the American people have even to me, is, is the system so corrupt, is the system so corrupt that Thomas Massie and you defy the odds, pass a bill through a discharge petition, get the Senate, get the president to sign it, and still, these rich and powerful people are being protected. Who has this kind of hold on our government? What are they hiding? Why are they not releasing this?"

On a lighter note, news that the DOJ is suddenly aware of more than a million additional Epstein documents gave social media users grist for some dark humor:

We thank you for this holiday entertainment https://t.co/heikBwJqR5

— Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/2003904133687030139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The Epstein files redactions. https://t.co/t8fT74SK1J

— Roddy 🇨🇦 (@RodKahx) https://twitter.com/RodKahx/status/2003596126793183595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Justice Dept. Says It Has Found Over a Million More Epstein Documents https://t.co/ZPo2U8cgor

— Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow/status/2003950032266088931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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Is There A "Cuba Connection" Behind The Radicalization Of America's Nonprofit Left

A common pattern across America's far-left organizations is alarming behavior that appears militant, resembling revolutionary movements more than civic advocacy. There is a historical explanation that is rarely discussed: for decades, Cuban intelligence has penetrated and influenced segments of the radical left, enabling influence operations with nation-killing objectives.

This is not a new phenomenon, nor is it speculative. The pattern stretches back more than half a century and follows a consistent arc: student activism, escalation into disorder, foreign ideological grooming, and institutional capture through nonprofits that later rebrand as "civil society."

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The story begins in 1968, when members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), including Mark Rudd and Bernadine Dohrn, were invited to Cuba. That trip resulted in the founding of the Venceremos Brigade, which publicly framed itself as a solidarity delegation but privately represented something more consequential. Multiple intelligence assessments and contemporary reporting alleged that SDS radicals requested formal training from the Castro regime, including instruction in explosives and sabotage. The objective was explicit: to move from protest politics to revolutionary struggle with foreign backing.

Upon his return to the U.S., Rudd was elected president of Columbia University's SDS chapter and quickly presided over a wave of sit-ins, building takeovers, and riots that paralyzed campus life and captured national attention. After his expulsion, Rudd, alongside Dohrn, went on to become co-founders of the Weather Underground, a domestic extremist organization responsible for bombings and violent underground activity throughout the early 1970s.

The lesson Cuba learned from this period was very simple: American radicals could be trained, networked, ideologically shaped, and then sent back to do their dirty work.

Last week, we were honored to send a delegation of 40 DSA elected leaders & rank-and-file members from chapters big & small across the country to https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuba?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

— DSA (@DemSocialists) https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1980359122815250460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Guess where Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass got her start in politics…

Did You Know:

Karen Bass got her start in politics in the Venceremos Brigade, a Marxist front group in the US funded by Cuba

She traveled to Cuba many times

The Venceremos Brigade directly spawned domestic terror groups the Weather Underground and May 19th Org https://t.co/Pno87kL50S

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1883158595413676505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Here's what happened in Los Angeles this summer...

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Fast-forward to 2025, and the same structure still exists, but it has been supercharged with vastly greater assets and manpower, fueled by billionaire leftists who operate what is now widely described as the protest industrial complex. This network is increasingly described as a color-revolution-style operation led by NGOs to undermine the Trump administration and 'America First.' What were once underground protest movements now operate openly and, in some cases, violently, supported by armies of "movement lawyers," expansive national coalitions, and dark-money-funded NGOs. There was even the political assassination of Charlie Kirk this fall, a reality that even Deep State media outlets like The Atlantic were forced to acknowledge…

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https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Perez-Mendez-debriefing.pdf

and corroborating intelligence reporting, legacy Castro-aligned groups such as the Venceremos Brigade and the National Lawyers Guild have been controlled by Cuba's Dirección General de Inteligencia (DGI) since at least the 1980s. That influence is exerted through ICAP (the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples).

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ICAP is an official Cuban government organization, founded in 1960, that promotes international solidarity and cultural exchange. On paper, it organizes delegations, volunteer brigades, educational tours, and international conferences that oppose U.S. sanctions and support Cuba's political system. It appears benign - almost quaint.

WATCH: Washington Post Reporter Says Democrats Won’t ‘Go Hard’ On Cuba Because They Agree With The Regime https://t.co/O8tP3Wb17a

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1417150034420715523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

But declassified CIA documents dating back to the Cold War describe a consistent operational method: foreign recruits were brought to Cuba for training in intelligence tradecraft or guerrilla sabotage and https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001214616.pdf

ICAP functioned as the intake valve - political cover for intelligence operations designed to cultivate long-term assets rather than short-term spies.

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What exists today is not a single organization but a complex ecosystem.

ICAP sits at the center, functioning as a coordinating hub. Orbiting it is the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), a deliberately loose coalition that links 77 organizations of activists, nonprofits, and campaigns while minimizing legal exposure or clear command structures. The National Lawyers Guild serves as the lawfare and agitation arm, training protesters, facilitating delegations, and litigating against U.S. institutions under the guise of civil rights.

Funding and infrastructure come from the Neville Roy Singham Network, a web of organizations tied to Chinese Communist Party-aligned capital that provides money, logistics, and professionalized organizing capacity. Public narratives are amplified by legacy anti-war organizations like CODEPINK and the ANSWER Coalition, which are also now under the Singham umbrella. They frame U.S. foreign policy as illegitimate while defending authoritarian adversaries. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) functions as the political activation channel, translating activist energy into electoral and legislative influence on behalf of the Cuban regime.

Viewed individually, each organization insists it is merely engaging in advocacy. Viewed together, the pattern is unmistakable.

Examine the leadership and membership of the National Network on Cuba and the picture sharpens further. Calla Walsh, founder of PalAction U.S. and Unity of Fields, served as a co-chair of NNOC. Manolo De Los Santos lived in Cuba for six years and maintains relationships with senior ICAP officials and Cuban political leadership. Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK lived in Cuba for five years, married a Cuban communist, and went on to build organizations centered around Cuba delegations. Groups as radical as Armed Queers of Salt Lake City appear inside NNOC membership rolls. The DSA has held meetings at the Cuban Embassy in New York City and subsequently traveled to Cuba, where it announced a formal partnership with ICAP.

🇨🇺 🇨🇳 These Cuba trips are run through ICAP, a shadowy Cuban intel front, and the Venceremos Brigade. Since 1970, at least 744 delegations have brought U.S. activists to Havana for a crash course in communist collaboration. Cuba used to be a proxy for the Soviets but lately it's… https://t.co/n4QePQ99UE

— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) https://twitter.com/peterschweizer/status/1968042020410216765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

None of this proves espionage in the cinematic sense. It does not need to.

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING 2: The 2025 May Day trip of SLC Armed Queers to Cuba: "Well, if we're terrorists, we're proud to be terrorists"

I've obtained a now-deleted video.

In it, Ermiya Fanaeian and an unidentified man named Connor talk openly about:

👉 Palestinian students at… https://t.co/CBkStDYjEO

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1967821704438354295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Come on now...

So here is https://twitter.com/SenWarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1968121292789629084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Influence operations are not about secrets; they are about shaping norms, training protest foot soldiers, and aligning political instincts. By that measure, Cuba's intelligence services have been extraordinarily successful. Entire segments of the U.S. radical nonprofit sphere now reflexively defend foreign authoritarian regimes and justify violence, while dehumanizing and demonizing half the country by calling them "Nazis" and "fascists."

Here is the roadmap to Charlie Kirk’s assassination… https://t.co/S4JPbPiFy8

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1966578517724078404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The reason target profiling of Republicans was done by the radical left and Democrats is very simple:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/planning-war-against-fascists-socialist-rifle-association-boasts-10000-members

Many of these organizations are conspicuously opposed to anything associated with America First, with some openly calling for the destruction of Western capitalism and even the end of the U.S. Strikingly, they all sing from the same radical Marxist songbook.

If you want to understand why the radical left appears to hate America and seeks to implode the nation from within, it is not difficult to see that these ideas are rarely developed organically. More often, they are shaped and reinforced by outside influences. This chart helps explain why the radical left has become so radical.