Big Haystack
It’s a known lawyers’ tactic, specifically in civil litigation. When an individual or small group of people sues a big corporation, they call for “discovery”. That’s to gain access to the information that the corporation possesses, some that might show their negligent actions. A court orders “all relevant material” turned over to the plaintiff. And the corporation’s lawyers fully obey the court’s order. They deliver everything, every conceivable document which might relate to the case, and thousands, or hundreds of thousands, or millions in addition. The relevant documents are buried, “needles in a haystack” in truckloads of information.
It requires a “small time” lawyer to hire a whole bunch of assistants to comb through all of the documents. And that means money; money that the litigants simply might not have. It also leaves a lot of room for the “needle” to remain undiscovered in the “haystack”. In the non-fiction movie Dark Waters about the lawsuit against the manufacturer of Teflon, a single lawyer (played by Mark Ruffalo) drags his big law firm, Taft, Stettinius and Hollister of Cincinnati, into a lawsuit against Dupont Chemical. Dupont’s first move was to send truckloads of documents to overwhelm him. It took years and luck, to finally find the “needle” that brought DuPont down.
Redacted Files
We know all about truckloads of documents in the real world. We’re seeing it right now, in the millions of pages released about the Epstein “investigation”. Even the Department of Justice of the United States, can’t handle the “haystack” of information that Congress demanded released. Intentional or not (the John Wayne line as Big Jake: “Your fault, my fault, nobody’s fault”) the Department of Justice released the names, documentation, and even unclothed pictures of the victims, but managed to redact the names of almost all of the perpetrators.
And now, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the person who claimed to have the Epstein File on her desk, ready for release last April, claims that the “other” two and a half million pages don’t have any important information in them. She’s ordered her department NOT to release them. Instead, her Deputy, Todd Blanche, put out a list of hundreds of names “mentioned” in the Epstein files.
Sure, there’s the expected names included: (former) Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and all of the rest we already knew about. And there’s some unexpected names: Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin and Marilyn Monroe – somehow mentioned in email conversations. But there’s no context, just the fact they “appeared” in the papers. It’s kind of like Blanche took the haystack, and tossed it around to make it even harder to search.
Crying Foul
The pressure is now on. Some Republicans, in the House and in the Senate, are crying foul. They want the other two and a half million pages out, and they want the names of the adults involved in abusing and trafficking, revealed. That was the intent of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law passed by Congress and signed by President Trump.
The EPSTEIN FILES will not go away. They didn’t go away when the military invaded Venezuela. They didn’t go away when ICE invaded Minneapolis. And they won’t go away, even if Trump attacks Iran, or makes a deal in Ukraine.
Congressman Thomas Massie is a far-right wing conservative Republican who represents Northern Kentucky, from Ashland to the Louisville suburbs. He was MAGA through and through, but demands accountability for Epstein. This weekend, he uttered the magic words that will haunt Trump until the end of his term. Massie called his White House “The Epstein Administration”, a nickname that will stick like glue until it all comes out, hay and needles. Democrats will make sure it does.
In the end, it may not be the ICE atrocities, or the “cost of eggs” that prevents Trump and his minions from changing the course of American Democracy. And it may not even be the Democrats, or the brave protestors with their orange whistles. It might well be the “Tom Massie” MAGA supporters, willing to take all the other Trump nonsense, but unwilling to support the “Epstein Administration”.
What’s Left
The reality may be this. Trump could put an end to it all by abandoning his friends, throwing his former party buddies to the wolves, and releasing all the documents. I’m sure there are some advisors already telling him: get rid of Lutnick, Bannon and Musk. Let them take the fall for their association with the convicted pedophile. Even the British royal family has done it.
Unless…unless what’s left in those millions of papers is the story of a New York realty baron, high on his riches, his parties and his hedonistic desires. As long as the papers are sealed, the questions about the actions of Donald Trump will never end. The only reasonable conclusion is that what’s in the hidden papers is more than the “Epstein Administration” can bear.
Sometimes, the crime really is worse than the cover-up.
Thank you for posting something in regard to the Epstein crimes. I don’t really understand why the victims ability to name the perps is not enough. If a young girl gets raped by a football team, as we have seen in Steubenville, this is enough. So why not getting raped by rich men? P.Diddy was held accountable and he was rich. I just don’t get it. You may not know this answer, but it is very frustrating to me. It sets a precedent for what is still continuing, more than likely, with rich men around the world. They can use this as they continue to manipulate, abuse and rape young women (and men). As Virginia Giuffre stated in her book, they feel entitled. And they are. And this is society’s fault.
I will continue to post on Epstein, but, I have little faith that anyone in Federal Law Enforcement will do anything about it (unlike UK where they just arrested the former Prince). Our Federal police force (the FBI primarily) is under political control, and those who control it are directly threatened by what they did with Epstein. I can say that investigation of sexual assault/rape in the US (and probably elsewhere) is often about power – even in places like Pataksala. And there’s no-one more powerful than the men who were Epstein’s friends (clients, co-conspirators).
I haven’t read your Prince/Mountbatten post yet, but I think it is probably in sync with his being deposed. I can see now that it was done purposely (guessing) to make him a “normal” so that he could be treated like one by being arrested for his crimes. As a royal, it would have been a detriment to the whole family, now it looks like they acted properly, but I doubt it was a coincidence. Yesterday, with Les Wexner – not sure how someone will respect this man after his joke of a hearing before the Senate. He didn’t know a man who was managing his finances and who Virginia Giuffre already told us she had been with Epstein, in Wexner’s home, where she met him several times. If anything, I hope these crimes will make people look at wealthy people more suspiciously in future, though, I know that no lessons will be learned. We have seen this time and time again, and I know from working for CPS in CA that it goes down to the inner city level – those in power taking advantage of their own (i.e., pimps, gang leaders, drug dealers and even in some cases the police). Hearing from kids that it was safer to be a pimp than a drug dealer – another world!