The Republican-led House Oversight Committee just confirmed what ordinary Americans have suspected for years: the Trump administration botched the release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein records, missing deadlines, concealing co-conspirators' names, and failing so badly at redactions that victims' sensitive information was exposed while the powerful stayed shielded.
Why it matters: This isn't a partisan story. It's a uniparty story. A Republican Congress had to pass a law to force a Republican administration to release files on a sex offender who operated in plain sight for decades. The administration then dragged its feet, and the DOJ's failures protected the connected while harming the vulnerable. When both sides stall on the same issue, the question isn't who's to blame — it's who they're protecting.
The 137-page report, released Tuesday, comes nearly a year after Congress passed and Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. That law was necessary because the administration reneged on its own promise to open the files voluntarily. Even after being forced by statute, the Justice Department missed disclosure deadlines and concealed names of alleged co-conspirators, the report found. Most damning: the DOJ's redactions were so
