Democratic representative Jamie Raskin, of Maryland, has slammed the Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files as “a full-blown cover-up”.
Asked on CNN this morning whether Democrats were going to see to the unredacted files, Raskin said, “Absolutely.”
“We sent them a letter and so we’re demanding a right to do it. I hope the Department of Justice will keep its word and let us in there.”
A reminder that US deputy attorney general Todd Blanche said on Friday that every woman’s image had been redacted, adding that if any members of Congress wanted to see the unredacted material they should contact the DOJ so that could be arranged.
Raskin went on:
“Remember, they’ve said there are six million potentially responsive documents there. They’ve only released three million with more than 10,000 redactions. So we have to go look at those redactions. They’ve not sent us the explanation yet for those redactions. But then what about the other 3 million files?”
“Because we are witnessing a full blown cover up. Remember, not only is there a subpoena to attorney general [Pam] Bondi to turn everything over to Congress now; there’s a federal law compelling them to turn it over, and yet we’re just getting the dribs and drabs of information coming out of this stuff that they want us to see.”
To the suggestion that three million files was not “nothing”, Raskin added:
“Well it’s close to nothing when they’re deciding which documents are coming out and there’s a federal law and a subpoena compelling them to just turn everything over to Congress.”
“And they said that they had done this process many months ago, and there’s nothing to see there.”
Yes, they are that way on purpose, because most Democrats are also beholden to and exist to do the bidding of mostly the same set of corporate overlords as the Republicans.
This has been totally systemically inevitable since Citizens United a decade+ ago, and it had basicalpy been headed that way since at least the 80s.
The political system is entirely captured by corporate elites and big money that throws that money around via PACs and SuperPACs.
Lobbying is corruption, and we have just for a very long time pretended it isn’t.
This is why the entire Democratic apparatus moved heaven and earth to ratfuck Bernie, to try to fuck over AoC, to try to fuck over Mamdani… but they turn into sheepish confused pathetic blobs of imeffective cringe when it comes to doing anything against literal violent fascists.
Capital always supports fascists.
AoC, Mamdani, Bernie, these are weird anomalies, but otherwise, the system is working as intended, and it is intended to create an endless stream of ineffective, compromising neoliberal/shitlibs, who ultimately just slap a friendlier/rainbow face on top of very, very similar policies in regard to all things other than the ‘culture war’.