Many Experts Speculating The Epstein Files Will Be Scrubbed; Epstein's Brother Alleges The Deed Has Already Been Carried Out
Will The Excuse Be National Security Over Democracy?
Many leading pundits predict the Epstein files will never be fully released. Is the DOJ planning to pull a fast one? This, according to sociopath Epstein’s brother, Mark. “I’ve been recently told the reason they’re going to be releasing these things, and the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files,” Epstein alleged. “There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia, where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out of it. That’s what I was told by a pretty good source,” he added.
Please read this article: Time
Honestly, the best answer to Mark Epstein’s ‘they’ll scrub the files!’ is for Andrew’s next piece to detail how the Epstein Records Act is more than a file dump and was written with this in mind.
As I understand it, the files go straight to NARA, not DOJ. Every redaction needs a written defense. And the Review Board — which Trump would absolutely try to fill with his favorites, can’t be stacked. It isn’t an RFK Jr appointment with a majority congress approval. The act forces the President to pick only from candidate lists submitted by historians, archivists, legal groups, and victims’ advocates. In other words, no MAGA ankle-biters, no adult children who share his surname, etc.
Plus, the Board can subpoena anyone who tries to protect those named in the files and drag respective agencies into federal court if necessary. Granted, this would slow the process to a crawl but it also would leave a trail of receipts and embarrass everyone involved.
The real reply is to give this matter the Lownie Treatment. A working headline might be, ‘Why Scrubbing the Epstein Files Would Be the Dumbest, Most Detectable Crime in History.’
Rest assured, there's an email-function called Bcc (blind-copying), along with forwarding, which means an unknown number of recipients could have original versions of anything that's redacted, shredded or scrubbed. I have decades of filing cabinets full of emails from people near and far, spanning every aspect of my life. For eco reasons, I print only the keepers, such as memorabilia, but I've also kept a few from past jobs, where influential knobs entrusted me with access to their inboxes, while exploiting me or others. I've never blackmailed anyone, nor would I ever do so, but even in a Rule of Law democracy like Australia, most of us have experienced workplace bullying or other malfeasance, so we value record keeping. Ironically, the wider one's circle of influence, the weaker one's chance to control info. The more peers, clients, servants, slaves, victims or 'friends' someone uses, the harder it is to know who might have forwarded or blind-copied an email to someone beyond that circuit, anywhere in the world. (Hello, autocrats! Yes we know you're tracking us. We're also tracking you.)