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Katie Phang just did what Congress wouldn’t.
She’s suing the Justice Department to force the release of the Epstein files, arguing the government is violating its own transparency law and withholding information the public was promised.
In our conversation, she laid out why the law was written without real enforcement teeth and how that loophole is now being used to stall accountability. “If you can’t see it, you can’t report it,” she told me.
We also got into something bigger: whether the Justice Department is being used selectively.
As Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche moves to indict James Comey on what many see as a thin case, Phang argues it raises serious questions about priorities and power. Why can DOJ spend months building that case, but not comply with a law requiring transparency on Epstein?
And then there’s what happened when I tried to ask Blanche about a potential conflict tied to the Epstein files.
Instead of answers, I got shut down, with security stepping in.
Phang’s take: that reaction says more than it intends to.
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