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.”
Almost like people should’ve been doing this to begin with. Almost like they should be doing it now.
I do love the down votes for stating it though (not you.) People always seem to dislike that progressive ideas apparently are not a silver bullet and resent the idea that they might not be as popular as they think.
Maybe if people did the simple things we could avoid having to have a full on revolution. Just a thought. Maybe simple actions should be priority number one alongside protests, etc.
And I fail to see how the Almighty DNC could stop thousands of progressive candidates across the country, especially when the turnout, again, is so low.
Maga zealots and hard right nut jobs put in the simple work to take over the Republican party but it always seems amazingly hard to imagine progressives doing that with the Democrats even though mamdani did exactly that by getting just a bit more turnout in the primary.
Organization is the hill to overcome no matter the plan. It’s certainly where we’ve failed in the past, can’t deny that.
For the record I would love a progressive revolution inside the DNC. I’m just worn out at this time after decades of friction to progressive causes, and watching defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory so often. It has made me cynical in this particular arena, sadly.
Mamdani was a huge win for New York, and frankly for progressives everywhere in the U.S… I hope we learned more on how to make that success happen again than the opposition has at stopping it.
No matter what though our metaphorical enemy is organization, without it a revolution of and kind is impossible.