Congress has mandated that the Trump administration release a trove of Epstein-related files by tomorrow – and the Justice Department is racing to process thousands of pages of documents and images.
In an exclusive, CNN reports that the Justice Department is racing to redact thousands of pages in oder to protect victims, and address executive and legal privacy concerns. Per CNN, counterintelligence specialists “ were asked to drop nearly all of their other work”.
I think it’s not just Trump. They said something along the lines of releasing it would have catastrophic political consequences.
I imagine they are trying to balance redacting enough so that the redactions themselves won’t cause enough of an outrage so that the unredacted stuff needs to be released, redact stuff in a way that none of the various cliques in both parties feels slighted enough to flip the table.
Add to it that there are probably international contacts in there as well, so an unredacted release could topple US-friendly regimes worldwide. And then the backchannels are probably being lit up constantly by scared rapists with wealth or contacts.