The Department of Justice finally released part of the long-promised Epstein Files on Saturday, December 20. But as soon as the documents went online, television debates weren’t about what they revealed. Everyone was asking why this was released at all.
On CNN, Jake Tapper walked viewers through the reality of the Department of Justice’s so-called transparency effort on Dec. 20. What we saw was document after document, hundreds of pages long, yet it was functionally useless with near-total redaction. Shamelessly, they didn’t even try to make it look selective. It was just black boxes stacked on black boxes.
