Friday’s statutory deadline for the release of all the Jeffrey Epstein investigative files has come and gone and it seems, unsurprisingly, that the Justice Department is uninterested in complying with the law, instead releasing only a fraction of the full records, heavily redacted.

The department not only claims that it is suddenly once more pursuing investigations into the Epstein matter — conveniently one of the avenues to withhold records — but that it cannot act faster given the redactions it has to make of survivors’ names and identifying information.

There’s good reason to suspect the redactions are going far beyond this. As some observers noted, some

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