Analysis of the Epstein file release and media reactions to the investigation findings.
Alternate philosophical question: How many nothingburgers would it take to open a McDonald’s?
Late yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 30,000 pages of documents from its own investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case, as well as documents from the Department of Justice. Rather than race to see what might appear in the ‘new’ material, it seemed wiser to wait and review the reaction from the media, which has hyped this incessantly for months.
Lo and behold, hardly a headline could be found on the front pages of Protection Racket Media portals. Like the other breath-abating releases, this one turned out to be nothing much. The offered a rare front-page entry, mainly to complain that the news was that there was no news:
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Tuesday night released 33,295 pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a bipartisan group of lawmakers seeks more transparency from the Trump administration on the subject.
But the highly anticipated tranche of documents provided to Congress by the administration appears to mostly contain information that was already in the public domain, drawing complaints from Democrats and doing little to tamp down an effort in the GOP-controlled House to force the Trump administration to turn over more documents. .
A analysis of the documents released by the committee found that at least two-thirds of them are court documents from various Epstein-related investigations and thus probably were publicly available already.
