The Department of Justice says it will release Epstein-related documents under the Epstein Transparency Act. Eventually. In a recent court filing, DOJ explains that it is still reviewing victim lists and other “sensitive materials” to ensure compliance with the new law. The implication is that this is painstaking, unfamiliar work requiring extraordinary care and time. That explanation strains credulity. This was their case. Their investigation. Their prosecution. Their evidence. The DOJ spent years seizing, cataloging, reviewing, redacting, and litigating these very materials in order to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein and secure Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction. These documents were not discovered last week in a forgotten filing cabinet. They were central to one of the most high-profile criminal cases in modern history. Congress did not ask the DOJ to rediscover the record. It asked them to publish it with appropriate victim protections, which the Department has already applied repeatedly in court proceedings. Instead, the DOJ is now speaking as though it is encountering the Epstein files for the first time, invoking an open-ended review process with no deadline and no clear end point. That posture doesn’t suggest a search for truth. It suggests delay. The post The Epstein Files Are Coming… Someday appeared first on Redacted.