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Then there’s the matter of the Epstein files themselves. For years, questions have swirled around how much the public has actually seen, who has been held accountable, and what decisions were made regarding disclosure. If the Biden Justice Department were truly committed to transparency and impartiality, why weren’t those documents made public when the administration had full control of the DOJ’s mechanisms? Why did it take political pressure and public attention for these files to surface—or at least for portions of them to reach the media? The selective timing, the carefully crafted framing, and the attempt to recast delayed disclosure as evidence of independence only highlight the fragility of Harris’s argument. Transparency, in this context, seems conditional rather than absolute; principled independence seems more aspirational than actual.
