January 2024
Court-ordered unsealing of documents from Giuffre v. Maxwell, the civil defamation case — depositions and exhibits made public by the Southern District of New York.
Declassified
The releases themselves — not the rumors about them.
When the government declassifies records, two things happen: the documents go up on official servers, and a thousand summaries — some honest, many not — go up everywhere else. This room does one job: it keeps the timeline of what was actually released, by whom, under what authority, with a link to the official copy of every release. No rehosting, no person indexes, no narration. The record, and the way to it.
A heads-up before you read: these collections document serious crimes, including crimes against children, and surveillance of Americans. They are adult reading. And one rule applies on every page of every release: appearing in a released document is not an accusation, a charge, or evidence of wrongdoing. Victim identities are protected by statutory redaction, and this project never republishes or speculates about them.
The Epstein Files
Releases ongoing — links go to the official pages, which stay currentThe investigative and court records surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking operation, released in waves: Justice Department declassifications, tens of thousands of pages released through the House Oversight Committee, FBI records, and civil-case documents unsealed by federal courts. In November 2025 Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by an overwhelming bipartisan margin, legally requiring the Justice Department to release its files — one of the clearest recent examples of sustained public pressure forcing government disclosure.
How to read this collection
These are primary sources, and everything Source Check taught applies at maximum strength. Appearing in these documents — a contact book, a flight log, an email — is not an accusation and not evidence of wrongdoing; investigators collect wide, and the innocent appear alongside the accused in every large investigation ever released. Redactions protect victims and ongoing matters; their presence is process, not proof. Read the documents themselves before anyone's summary of them — including ours.
The release timeline, with official sources
February 2025
The Justice Department's first declassified release of Epstein investigation files.
September 2025
The House Oversight Committee published a large tranche of records received from the Justice Department — described by the committee as more than 33,000 pages — followed by further releases of estate records.
November 2025
The Epstein Files Transparency Act was signed into law after near-unanimous passage, requiring the Justice Department to release its Epstein files with defined redaction standards.
December 2025 onward
Justice Department releases under the Act — tens of thousands of pages, published in batches with statutory redactions for victim identities and ongoing matters.
Ongoing
The FBI's public records vault hosts Bureau records on Epstein released under FOIA.
The JFK, RFK, and MLK Records
Released 2025 — hosted permanently by the National ArchivesIn 2025, the National Archives released the remaining classified records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (March), Senator Robert F. Kennedy (April), and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (July) — closing out disclosure processes that began with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Sixty years of 'what are they hiding' now has a checkable answer: the records are on the government's own servers, readable by anyone.
How to read this collection
Decades-old intelligence files are fragmentary by nature: raw tips, unverified informant reports, and internal memos sit beside verified fact, and the files record what agencies heard, not what was true. The King records in particular document FBI surveillance of Dr. King that is itself a civil-liberties case study — read them knowing the Bureau's conduct toward King is part of what was declassified. Same rule as every collection here: the document first, the theories never before the document.
The release timeline, with official sources
March 2025
The remaining John F. Kennedy assassination records, released and hosted in the National Archives' JFK collection.
April 2025
Records related to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
July 2025
Records related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including FBI surveillance files.
What this room deliberately is not
Independent researchers have built searchable databases that index every name, flight, and connection in these files. Some of that work is careful and valuable. This project does not currently index persons named in released documents, because a name-by-name index operated by us requires legal review we have not yet had — being thorough about documents and being fair to the people in them are both obligations, and the second one is harder. Until that review happens, we link the records and teach you to read them yourself. Timeline last verified 2026-08-02; the official pages linked above are always more current than any summary, including this one.
Want to push for more disclosure yourself? That is a real, legal lever available to any citizen: the Transparency Toolkit shows how to file a FOIA request for records not yet released, how reading-room releases work, and how public pressure — the same kind that produced the Transparency Act above — actually moves government. Maximum transparency, entirely within the law, is the whole method of this project.