Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump’s justice department released more than 3m files last week
The release of about 3m Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has failed to quell outrage over justice department officials’ handling of these disclosures, with advocates claiming potentially millions of documents are still being withheld.
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was required to disclose all investigative files by 19 December under The Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). While the justice department did release some documents on that date, last week’s disclosure came nearly six weeks after this deadline.
The missed deadline and up to 3m files that remain unreleased have prompted criticism and calls for further disclosure to answer how Epstein sexually abused girls with impunity for decades and landed a sweetheart plea deal about 20 years ago that allowed him to avoid federal prosecution.
No one should be covering for the former president and his appointees. The former president had 4 years and decided to allow his Federalist Society appointed AG to remain captured by the enemy. Despite 2021 showing a lack of fight to protect the country, it’s people, and society when it was outwardly, undeniably under attack.
But at least they didn’t suffer bad faith projections from the republicans about politicizing the justice department as they planned to do. I’m joking of course they did that still. They allowed the republic to die of a terminal disease with an unused treatment protocol, and every ability to implement it. At no point was anyone fired by the president, while perhaps every federal agency failed in it’s statutory duties, courts remained mostly captured with not a cross speech let alone campaign attacking their bad faith decisions.