adminCarl Higbie didn’t mince words on his show this week, telling Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to “put these pedos in cuffs” and demanding the Justice Department stop hiding behind delays and redactions. His outrage reflects a fed-up conservative base that sees the staggered, heavily edited releases of the Epstein materials as another example of a justice system that protects the powerful while victims get left behind.
The public record is now enormous: the Justice Department’s latest disclosures included millions of pages, thousands of images and videos that the department says were necessary to release under the new transparency law and to finish its review. Deputy Attorney General Blanche announced the most recent tranche as the department’s final production and argued the DOJ had met its obligations after a painstaking review process.
But Washington’s timeline and the law don’t line up for ordinary Americans. Congress set a hard deadline to force the release of these files, and yet the rollout was piecemeal, full of redactions, and accompanied by conflicting explanations — a sequence that only deepens suspicion that political calculation, not plain justice, drives the department’s behavior. Americans deserve an accounting of why deadlines were missed and why whole pages were blacked out.
Todd Blanche and the department insist the heavy-handed editing was done to protect victims and to comply with court orders, not to shield the well-connected. That defense does little to soothe the millions of citizens who watched months of obfuscation while the most powerful names in the world skirt substantive scrutiny. Conservatives are right to ask whether those assurances are a cover for selective enforcement and institutional self-protection.
This is why voices like Higbie’s matter: they channel the anger of everyday Americans who want action, not theater. The deputy attorney general’s office may claim it is following the law, but claiming to follow the law is not the same thing as delivering swift arrests, prosecutions, and transparency for victims — and that is what the public demands from the Department of Justice’s leadership.
Patriots who love this country should press their representatives to hold real oversight hearings, subpoena the unredacted records where legally permissible, and demand indictments when there is evidence of criminal conduct. If the DOJ will not do its sworn duty, then Congress must pry the truth loose and the voters must remember who stood for the victims and who stood with the powerful. The time for excuses is over — we want justice, not spin.
