cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53790455
The Department of Justice is facing new scrutiny over the decision to withhold the Jeffrey Epstein files earlier this year.
A federal judge on Monday ordered the DOJ to expedite processing of a Freedom of Information Act request related to the Trump administration’s decision in July not to release files from the investigation of Epstein.
Honestly I think they’re trying to drag it out until Trump dies (or at least reaches the drooling vegetable stage of dementia). My guess is he’s in there to such an extent that they can’t even really remove him and have what’s left make sense, so they slow walk it until he dies and then release it. This, in turn, generates a massive enough scandal that they can probably redact whoever the fuck else they want without many people even noticing, but minimal actual consequences, as at the end of the day, everything is now directed at a dead man.