Sharks’ Feeding Frenzy As Epstein Docs Dumped

Letter to Romans: Shame on Congress for its willy nilly release of Epstein photos that abuses Privacy Rights of victims & innocents alike, thereby abandoning 250 years of USA’s unique Rule of Law & Justice.

That’s the message I got from WSJ’s op ed titled, “The Epstein Files Fallout Hits the Innocent – Victim names. Nude photos. Wild accusations. This isn’t Justice.” What particularly hit home for me was a couple of quotes, the first from US Atty for Manhattan’s Jay Clayton: “There are allegations in there that with 10 to 15 minutes of work, you can realize have no basis in fact.” Yet, literally Congress ordered DOJ to release the Millions of documents within 30 days so that a mountain of redacting mistakes was inevitable. “If lawmakers have a vestigial sense of shame, “ the editors opined, “they can apologize to the victims whose information was posted.” Of course, Congress doesn’t and won’t.

The second quote, however, tops the first. Said the WSJ: “The brave exception” to a gutless or honor less Congress “is Republican Rep. Clay Higgins, the only member of Congress who voted against this document dump, because it ‘abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure’ and ‘will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt.’” The historical key to the 4^th Amendment’s Right to Privacy mandate is that it was aimed at the government to protect an accused’s privacy at all costs, until “verifiable probable cause” showing an actual crime could be shown. A mountain of court precedents says so, too. But, as the editors concluded: “Apparently, neither the Biden nor Trump Administrations [were] able to bring new charges against Epstein’s associates. Yet figures on both political sides have found it useful to engage in cheap posturing, claiming government cover up. In the frenzy, innocent people are getting hurt.”

Davd Soul