"An Abomination": How the Epstein Files Exposed Victims Instead of Perpetrators

[Uncle Joe]

President Trump’s Department of Justice shielded banks and billionaires while exposing Epstein's alleged victims in the release of six million files. Now some survivors have filed suit against the federal government.

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There were indeed places where the names of Epstein associates were redacted within the same set of documents in which an alleged victim’s name, image, or personal identifying information were left exposed. A 69-page Drug Enforcement Agency memo dated May 18, 2015—which revealed that Epstein was the subject of a major DEA drug trafficking and money-laundering investigation—included redactions of the names of 14 other “targets” of the investigation. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the surname of a survivor was left unredacted, enabling news outlets to identify her.

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After weeks of delays and a massive, multi-agency effort to review and redact documents, there’s one question that survivors are asking then and now: How has the very harm that the DOJ and the courts promised to guard them against found them so easily?

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This was Act One, when the Epstein issue was still a pliable weapon for the Trump administration to use against its political enemies. The secret lives of powerful men would be exposed, Bondi was “committed to transparency for the American people,” and justice for the victims was at least a possible byproduct.

Then, silence. The administration went four months without any meaningful Epstein disclosures and scarcely mentioned them at all.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/epstein-files-redactions-victims

[pat_k]

1. We need new words for the magnitude of the abominations being committed by the felon and his fiendish followers.