The Department of Justice apparently thought that placing black rectangles over sensitive documents constituted state-of-the-art censorship, because it turned out that the only thing standing between the average Joe reading the blacked-out Jeffrey Epstein files was access to a computer with Microsoft Word installed.
The release of the Epstein files was a disaster from the get-go. After months of foot-dragging and a legally mandated deadline — one that Congress had to force through with rare bipartisan pressure — the Trump administration finally coughed up a massive trove of documents.
