Morning Note

The House and Senate each passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Tuesday, sending the bill to President Trump’s desk with overwhelming bipartisan support. If you think this definitely means the truth will come out about the notorious sex criminal, think again. 

The legislation gives the Attorney General the authority to avoid disclosure by merely releasing a heavily censored “unclassified summary” of the government’s Epstein records if she determines that the information does not protect “methods or sources related to national security.” 

If that wording strikes you as overly broad, you’re right. It essentially means the establishment can keep the truth concealed for whatever reasons it wants and use “national security” as a convenient excuse.

There’s a real possibility that Epstein was a government agent, U.S. or international, who passed compromising sex information on powerful people to intelligence officials so they could engage in blackmail. If that’s true, then he was a source and a method, meaning the Epstein Files Transparency Act has a specific loophole to… prevent transparency on Epstein. See how this works?

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