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Durbin Signals Willingness to Subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s Flight Logs
Headline USA ^ | December 5, 2023 | by Ken Silva

Posted on 12/05/2023 12:07:52 PM PST by Red Badger

'What we need from you is a complete investigation as to why the FBI didn’t take this up...'

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Was Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., blocked when she attempted to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, or was it all just a misunderstanding?

After Blackburn failed to introduce an amendment last week that would have added an Epstein’s flight logs to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s list of forthcoming subpoenas, Blackburn accused the committee’s chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., of stonewalling her.

Last Thursday, Durbin’s office denied Blackburn’s accusation in response to a Headline USA media inquiry. And on Tuesday, Durbin further said he wasn’t aware that Blackburn wanted to include a subpoena of the flight logs—which include the names of numerous politicians, national security officials, businessmen and other power brokers who flew on Epstein’s private plane.

“There were 177 amendments filed. I confess I didn’t know about your amendment,” he said at an FBI oversight hearing.

“I have not spoken to you one time about this issue. I didn’t even know this was a subject of your amendment.”

Blackburn pushed back against Durbin, noting that she announced in early November that she planned to subpoena Epstein’s flight logs. But Durbin maintained he didn’t know about her efforts.

Headline USA understands that Senate congressional staffers are blaming Republicans for “filibustering” throughout last week’s hearing. Since there was a two-hour time limit on the hearing, that filibustering prevented Blackburn from amending the subpoena resolution to include Epstein, according to the Democrats.

Durbin did signal that he’s willing to consider Blackburn’s subpoena.

“I’ll be happy to discuss your request with you,” he said.

Blackburn also raised the Epstein issue with FBI Director Chris Wray during Tuesday’s oversight hearing. The senator cited Epstein’s victims, who said that the FBI refused to investigate the multimillionaire sex trafficker for years.

Indeed, the FBI received a complaint about Epstein as early as 1996.

“What we need from you is a complete investigation as to why the FBI didn’t take this up,” Blackburn told Wray.

Wray pled ignorance about the Epstein case, saying that “it’s been a while since I looked at that case.”

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and was purportedly found dead in prison a month later.

Wray said he’d take Blackburn’s concerns back to his “team.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: Tennessee
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1 posted on 12/05/2023 12:07:52 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

In other news Dick Durbin dead from apparent heart attack. the Clintons were greatly saddened by this. Watch out it’s coming.


2 posted on 12/05/2023 12:11:56 PM PST by genxer ( )
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To: Red Badger
Wray pled ignorance about the Epstein case, saying that “it’s been a while since I looked at that case.”

There are hundreds of victims, and Epstein was found dead in his cell a month after incarceration, and Christopher Wray is just so ho-hum about the matter...

3 posted on 12/05/2023 12:15:59 PM PST by fhayek
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There are hundreds of victims, and Epstein was found dead in his cell a month after incarceration, and Christopher Wray is just so ho-hum about the matter...

We just pay his salary, we don't deserve to know any details...

4 posted on 12/05/2023 12:18:01 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

Release the flight logs - unredacted.


5 posted on 12/05/2023 12:19:47 PM PST by jimwatx
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To: Red Badger

I don’t see a legislative interest in the matter.

I do see the NY Attorney General and US DoJ wasting time and taxpayer funding on persecuting Trump instead of protecting vulnerable young females from Epstein’s buddies.


6 posted on 12/05/2023 12:21:37 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: fhayek

“hundreds of victims”

All completely unaware of who molested them, except Epstein, apparently.

Now the Senate does have an interest in finding out why the federally funded FBI has no interest in the interstate transportation of ‘white slaves’ despite that being a violation of federal law.


7 posted on 12/05/2023 12:28:38 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Red Badger

118 pages

https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/ghislaine-maxwell/jeffrey-epstein-flight-logs-showing-detailed-passenger-lists-entered-into-evidence-at-ghislaine-maxwell-trial/


8 posted on 12/05/2023 12:33:15 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: genxer

While I never cheer at someone’s death, this is an obituary I would read with some glee...


9 posted on 12/05/2023 12:34:27 PM PST by VideoPaul
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To: Red Badger

Then.....darn it, on the trip over here they were lost. All of them.*

*Just watched The Deliberate Stranger (with the villain Mark Harmon). ALL the evidence in a key case against the serial torturer/killer Ted Bundy was lost by one local police department. They had to redouble their efforts while Bundy killed and mutilated more victims.


10 posted on 12/05/2023 12:37:38 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Considering that was one of the reasons the FBI was originally formed - See Mann Act enforcement.


11 posted on 12/05/2023 12:40:04 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: Red Badger

The redacted logs are already out there. They are pretty informative in and of themselves.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1507315-epstein-flight-manifests

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell


12 posted on 12/05/2023 1:11:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Red Badger

Which reminds me, where is the list if names of those politicians, etc., involved in the DC porn sex scandal from 3 weeks ago?


13 posted on 12/05/2023 1:12:57 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Careful mention DC and you may get swept up in J6.


14 posted on 12/05/2023 1:21:37 PM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: Red Badger

Let’s look for “Durbin” in the flight logs.

Was the plane registered to the CIA?


15 posted on 12/05/2023 1:43:56 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Red Badger

Meanwhile the statute of limitations runs out.

How convenient.


16 posted on 12/05/2023 1:45:43 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Red Badger

‘Turban Durbin” needs to re-focus our attention away from his earlier and equally stupid suggestion that we staff our armed forces with illegals - not a bright idea. What could go wrong with arming and training a cadre of men who come from countries that hate us?


17 posted on 12/05/2023 2:57:15 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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