More than a month after the deadline for the DOJ to release all the files, the vast majority are still not public.

More than a month has passed since the deadline for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all its files related to the investigations into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And while the department has publicly shared thousands of documents since that date, those releases account for only a fraction of the materials it has in its possession—leaving the vast majority of the so-called “Epstein files” still unreleased.

“I don’t give a rip about Epstein,” Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado said last week.

“Like, there’s so many other things we need to be working on,” she continued. “I’ve done what I had to do for Epstein. Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who serves as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters last week that he believes the DOJ “is cooperating.”

“They are turning over documents,” he said. “We would all like for them to turn documents over quicker, but at the end of the day, they are complying.”

  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    My personal conspiracy theory around this is that they aren’t being released not because Trump is in them (he most certainly is, but by now his base has been told they don’t even care anymore), but because then they lose leverage over everyone else who is. That’s the first rule of blackmail. They can hold it over the head of anyone involved for as long as they can keep a lid on them.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Could be. Or could be the more likely scenario where tons of rich and powerful people across a broad spectrum of politics is involved in some capacity, regardless of how small, and none of them want the files released.