Prosecutors 'Crushed' by Epstein Files: The Hard Labor of Hiding Power
📰 THE STORY: The Independent reports that federal prosecutors are 'crushed' by the monumental task of reviewing and redacting over 2 million pages of Jeffrey Epstein's files, delaying the public release of potentially crucial information. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This is a classic playbook for legal obfuscation, echoing tactics seen in countless political scandals. For
example, during the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, the release of documents was similarly bogged down, ensuring key details remained shielded from public scrutiny for years, blurring accountability for figures like Oliver North. The intelligence community, especially the CIA, has a long record of 'losing' or heavily redacting information that implicates high-level officials, such as the missing
memos regarding the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala, which protected corporate interests like the United Fruit Company at the cost of democratic governance. Double Standard: While the public is conditioned to accept these lengthy 'review' processes for cases involving powerful elites, whistleblowers like Julian Assange face immediate, aggressive prosecution for releasing a fraction of this
information. Assange's legal battles, stemming from the 2010 WikiLeaks releases exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, demonstrate that transparency for the powerful is a laborious, decades-long process, while transparency *about* the powerful is considered a crime against the state. Follow the Money: The delay benefits those individuals, including politicians, financiers, and possibly