Friend –
Today is the legal deadline for the Department of Justice to release the full Epstein files. Not a preview. Not a selective dump. Not a slow trickle stretched out over weeks. The law is explicit, and the clock is about to run out.
And yet, reporting this morning makes clear that the Justice Department is preparing to violate both the spirit and the letter of the law by releasing records piecemeal instead of all at once as required. That is not transparency. It is delay dressed up as compliance.
Congress anticipated this exact scenario. That is why the Epstein Files Transparency Act states plainly that records cannot be withheld, delayed, or redacted to avoid embarrassment, political consequences, or reputational harm for powerful people. Congress did not pass this law so the Department of Justice could decide what the public is allowed to see and when.
Even Republican co-sponsors of the bill have warned what to look for today. If the release contains no names of accused individuals, no meaningful accounting of decisions not to prosecute, and no clear explanation of what is being withheld, then the department has failed to comply. It is that simple.
At that point, responsibility shifts squarely to the House Committee on Oversight. Republican members cannot claim ignorance. They cannot hide behind process. They cannot allow the executive branch to ignore federal law without consequence. Oversight only matters if it is enforced.
This moment is not about partisan games. Survivors have been clear that their abuse should not be exploited or buried for political reasons. Transparency delayed protects the powerful and betrays the public.
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— People For the American Way
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