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The Audacity of Immunity: Epstein's NPA And How The DOJ Defends the Indefensible (Part 2) · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
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left off with the DOJ and their defense of the
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Jeffrey Epstein NPA. The brazenness of the DOJ's excuse making
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is staggering. After putting on their performance about wanting grand
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jury documents unsealed, they now turn and point the finger
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at the courts for saying no, as if the judges
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or the villains here, as if the DJ itself didn't
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know from day one that grand jury's secrecy is highly
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guarded and that those motions would die on arrival. They
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staged the whole charade, lose exactly as expected, and then
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try to sell the public a lie. Well, we wanted
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to release everything, but the courts just wouldn't let us.
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It's the equivalent of a magician distracting the crowd with
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one hand while hiding the coin with the other. The courts,
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bound by law, did what anyone would expect. The DOJ
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knew this and built their entire public relations strategy around it.
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By blaming the courts, they get the posture as the
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frustrated reformer while secretly clapping behind closed doors that their
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little performance went off without a hitch. The very same
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department that can't stop fighting tooth and nail to keep
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Epstein's plea deal sealed wants us to believe they were
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fighting the good fight on transparency and yo. Make no mistake,
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this is by design. The DOJ has some of the
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most skilled attorneys in the world. They knew those grand
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jury motions were dead before they were even filed. Filing
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them wasn't about legal success. It was about optics, about
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creating a narrative where the blame could be shifted elsewhere.
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That's why the victims and the public are left trapped
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in this absurd loop. When it comes to the sweetheart deal,
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DJ tells us our hands are tied. There's no legal basis.
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When it comes to grand jury records, they throw up
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their hands and say, well, the courts won't let us.
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In other words, they've built a system where, no matter
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what the result is, the same Epstein's secret stay buried.
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It's the ultimate dodge. They get to betray themselves as
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fighting forces beyond their control, when in reality, the force
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that keeps blocking the truth is the DJ itself. It's
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their lawyers, their motions, their stubborn defense of a corrupt
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plea deal that keeps the file sealed. But because the
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average person doesn't know the intricacies of grand jury law,
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DJ counts on the confusion to do the work for them.
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Blaming the courts is cowardice, plain and simple. The courts
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did their job. They upheld long standing principles of secrecy
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that DOJ knew would be upheld. It's the DOJ that
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has felt that its job, failed to pursue avenues that
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are within its control, failed to seek accountability from its
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own past failures, and fail to demonstrate even the bare
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minimum of courage. And what's worse still is it shows
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that the DOJ has no respect for the intelligence of
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the public. They assume people will swallow this narrative wholesale.
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The bad job wouldn't let us, But reality is obvious
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to anyone paying attention. If the DOJ want a transparency,
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it could start with the sweetheart deal. It could start
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with the internal communications. It could start with the names
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of those covered by immunity. Instead, it prefers to stagemock
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battles it knows it's gonna lose. The absurdity deepens when
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you realize the DOJ's entire mission is supposed to be
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about independence. They claim to stand above politics, above optics,
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above cheap stunts, Yet here they are playing the oldest
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political game in the book, blame someone else. They want
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the public to believe the courts are the barrier, when
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in truth, the courts are simply enforcing the law as
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it's written. The barrier is DOJ's unwillingness to confront its
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own complicity. Every time the DOJ files another due motion
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for grand jury disclosure, they insult the survivors and the
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public all over again. It's like dangling hope in front
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of them, just to snatch it away, then shrug and
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say sorry, the court's died our hands. No, the DOJ
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tied its own hands when it's sign Epstein's deal in
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two thousand and eight, and it continues to double knot
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the rope every time that it refuses to revisit the decision.
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It's also a cynical strategy designed for headlines. They know
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that most outlets won't dig into the weeds. Most reporters
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will simply write DOJ tried to get documents unsealed, but
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the court said no. The nuance that DOJ knew that
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this would happen. That DOJ itself is hoarding what it
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could release, rarely makes it above the fold. That's the
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shield the DOJ hides behind public ignorance. This strategy allows
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them to play both hero and the victim. In one breath,
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they're the champion of transparency, bravely petitioning for disclosure. In
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the next, they're the victim of a cruel judiciary that
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just won't budge. What they never are in their own
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narrative is the villain, the party that keeps real accountability
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under lock and key. But let's be crystal clear, the
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DOJ is not a bystander here. It's an active participant
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in Epstein's ongoing cover up. By blaming the courts, they're
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weaponizing public misunderstanding to obscure their own role in maintaining
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the blackout. They're hiding behind the smoke screen of legal
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inevitability while clutching the very documents that would tell the
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real story. And doesn't it strike you as absurd that
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the DOJ's entire posture is about impossibility. They can't release
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grand jury records because of the courts. They can't invalidate
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Epstein's deal because of no legal basis. They can't punish
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their own prosecutors because internal reviews clear them. They can't.
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They can't, they can't, and yet somehow they always can
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protect the powerful. They always can fight transparency, They always
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can make sure the truth stay sealed. And the public
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should be furious not only at the sweetheart deal itself,
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but at this grotesque dance the DOJ is still performing
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a decade later. They're pretending to be shackled when in
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reality they're holding the keys, and the fact that they
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now try to hang this entire failure on the courts
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makes the insult twice as bitter, and it's also an
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abdication of responsibility. The DOJ is the largest law enforcement
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agency in the country, with more power than most governments,
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and yet here it is pretending to be powerless, pretending
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to be thwarted by judges who did exactly what the
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law demanded. They would rather be seen as impotent than corrupt.
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That's the calculation. But this calculation comes out of cost.
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Every time the DOJ blames the courts, it erodes trust
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in the judiciary as well. It drags the courts into
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the muck, paints them as the obstructionists and undermines faith
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in the very system they're supposed to uphold. The DOJ
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doesn't care about the clateral damage as long as the
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spotlight doesn't shine on them. And when you chop it
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all up at the end of the day, the entire spectacle,
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the grand jury motions, the finger pointing at judges, the
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obsessive defense of Epstein's plea deal, boils down to a
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single truth. The DOJ is protecting itself, protecting its legacy,
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its officials, its connections. They would rather torch the credibility
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of the courts than admit their own hand in one
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of the most disgraceful prosecutorial scandals in history. So when
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you hear the DOJ complain that the court tied their hands,
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don't believe it for a second. The DOJ tied its
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own hands years ago when it struck the deal with
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Jeffrey Epstein, and ever since it's been pulling every string
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to make sure no one untangles the knot. The Court
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didn't stonewall transparency. The DOJ did, and they're hoping you
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won't notice the difference. And isn't that an absurdity? The
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Department of Justice an institution that sells itself as the
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arbiter of truth is now nothing more than a stage
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actor in a courtroom farce, pointing out the judge and
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shouting villain while quietly tucking Epstein's secrets back into their
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own vault. And one of the most galling parts of
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the whole debacle is the DOJ absolutely dismantled the non
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prosecution agreement if it wanted to. Legal scholars have pointed
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out multiple avenues, declare it void as against public policy,
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argue that have violated the Crime Victim's Rights Act, or
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simply concede that its secretive structure rendered it defective from
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the start. This is an impossible law. This is prosecutorial discretion.
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DOJ knows it, but they hide it behind a smoke
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screen of excuses. Let's take the Crime Victim's Rights Act
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for example. That law requires victims to be informed and
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included in negotiations that affect them. Epstein's deal was cut
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in total secrecy behind their backs. By any reasonable interpretation,
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it was a violation of the CVR. The DOJ could
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easily admit that and move to set the agreement aside,
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but it refuses because to do so would meet acknowledging
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that its own prosecutors broke the law in two thousand
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and eight, and that's a line they don't want to cross.
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And then there's the argument that the agreement itself is unconscionable.
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Courts void unconscionable contracts all the time. If a contract
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was made through fraud, duress, or collusion, it can be undone.
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The Epstein plea was all three fraudulent and how it
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was represented coercive, and how victims were shut out, collusive,
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in how it protected unnamed co conspirators. The DOJ could
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mount that case tomorrow, but they won't because they wrote it.
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And I think a lot of people forget that prosecutors
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aren't powerless scribes. They have discretion, authority, and the ability
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to revisit corrupt arrangements. They've undone bad deals before. But here,
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instead of protecting victims, they protect themselves by standing behind
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this plea. The DOJ is not preserving law, it's preserving
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the illusion that the Department is incapable of wrongdoing. That
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illusion matters more to them than justice ever will. That's
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why you see the DOJ fight harder to keep this
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agreement alive than they ever fought Epstein himself. To dismantle
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it now would mean admitting their complicity. It would mean
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pulling the curtain back on who signed off, who benefited,
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who leaned on whom. It would mean exposing a legacy
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of corruption that stains not just one office in Florida,
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but the Department as a whole. They'd rather choke on
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the lie than swallow the truth. It's not about whether
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they can avoid the deal, it's about whether they will.
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And every action since Epstein's arrest in twenty nineteen, every motion,
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every filing, screams the same message. They won't. They have
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the tools, they have the statutes, they have the arguments.
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What they lack is the will. And that lack of
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will is not some accident. It's not laziness. It's intent.
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The DOJ wants this deal to stand because if it falls,
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the domino start toppling. Epstein may be dead, but his
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deal still shields others, and those others are precisely the
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ones DOJ is too afraid or to compromise to confront.
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That's the heart of the issue. Think about how absurd
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it is a deal signed with a predator in two
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thousand and eight is still binding in twenty twenty five
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because the DOJ says it is, not because the law
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demands it, not because it couldn't be challenged, but because
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the DOJ won't lift a finger to do it. We're
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not talking about the immovable weight of law. What we're
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talking about is the immovable cowardice of a bureaucracy protecting
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its own. Even worse, the DOJ cloaks its refusal and
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false neutrality. They say things like our hands are tied,
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or the law does not allow us, but the law
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allows them plenty, they just refuse to use it. They
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know most people won't dig deep enough to see the distinction,
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so they scape by on half truths, and the victims
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they have to watch the department that wrong them turn
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around and insist that its own wrongdoing is untouchable. They're
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told again and again that the deal can't be undone,
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when the reality is that the deal won't be undone.
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It's not law keeping it alive. It's wilful betrayal. The
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DOJ has options. It could avoid the deal outright. It
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could open a new investigation into its origins. It could
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expose the prosecutors who signed it, the officials who pressured
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it the beneficiaries who hid behind it. But it won't
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because every one of those actions risks pulling a thread
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that unravels the entire fabric of institutional protection that it
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shielded Epstein's world for decades. Epstein may have been the defendant,
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but the deal itself was a pack between power and power.
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It was never really about him. It was about shielding
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the network, protecting reputations, keeping names out of indictments. That's
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why it endures, and that's why the DOJ defends it
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so rapidly. And when you look at it that way,
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the DOJ's argument that it can't avoid the deal becomes laughable.
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It's like a bank robber arguing he can't return the
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money because it's already in the vault. Of course he can,
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he just doesn't want to. DOJ could break this pack,
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but doing so would implicate itself, and that's one risk
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it refuses to take, and so the department hides behind procedure.
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They talk about legal basis and finality as though those
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words are carved into stone. But procedure is not destiny.
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Procedure is choice, and DOJ is chosen time and again
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to defend the indefensible. The truth is simple. The DOJ
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could wipe this deal off the books tomorrow if it
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wanted to. It could recognize that justice demands it, that
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victims deserve it, that the public requires it. But the
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DOJ doesn't want that outcome. It doesn't want Epstein's secrets
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dragged into the light. It doesn't want to expose the
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power brokers still lurking in the shadows. It doesn't want
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the firestorm that would follow. Instead, it wants to preserve
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the lie that this deal is untouchable. That way, it
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never has to reckon with the truth. It can go
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on pretending it tried, blaming the courts, blaming the law,
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blaming anything but itself, while the survivors remain silenced and
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the powerful remain protected. And Yo, that's why this fight matters,
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because it's not about what the law says. It's about
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what the DOJ chooses to do. And the DOJ is
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chosen deliberately and repeatedly to defend a predator's deal rather
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than dismantle it. They want it to stand. They wanted
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to survive, They wanted to bury the truth forever, And
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so the non prosecution agreement lives on not because it must,
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but because the DOJ wills it. That's the scandal, that's
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the betrayal. That's the legacy of the Department of Justice,
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that it's carved out for itself, not as the arbiter
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of law, but as a caretaker of corruption. And until
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they find the will to undo what they created, that's
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all they're ever going to be. And at some point,
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the endless excuses were it thin. The Department of Justice
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has had every chance to correct course, every opportunity to
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undo the mess it created, and every resource to bring
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real accountability. Instead, it doubled down. Instead of acknowledging its
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betrayal of victims, it weaponized procedure instead of transparency. It
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shows theater instead of justice. It shows survival. The result
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is a system that looks nothing like justice. It looks
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like bureaucracy defending bureaucracy, power protecting power, predators escaping accountability,
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and survivors left holding the wreckage. It looks like a
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department more concerned with maintaining its image than defending the law.
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It looks like rot dressed up in legal jargon. Now
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the DOJ's defenders will say this is just the way
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the law works, that it's bound by the rules, and
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that it's constrained by precedent, that it can't go back
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in time. But that's a lie. The DOJ has bent
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the rules before when it serves its interests. It's found
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creative arguments when it wanted to. It's dug into the
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past when political wins demanded it. It's only when victims
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demand justice that suddenly the law becomes immovable, and that
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double standard is at the heart of the scandal. Ordinary
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citizens are crushed by the weight of federal prosecution every day.
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Prosecutors find no shortage of creativity when they want to
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stack charges, extend sentences, and secure convictions. But when the
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subject is Jeffrey Epstein, and more importantly, the people around them,
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suddenly the DOJ becomes meek, cautious, bound by invisible chains.
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The chains aren't real, they're self imposed. And what makes
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it all worse is the sheer arrogance of it all.
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The DOJ doesn't just betray justice, it expects applause for
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doing so. It files grandjeury emotions it knows will fail,
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then basks and headlines about how it tried. It insists
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that it cannot avoid the sweetheart deal. Then frames itself
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as a guardian of law. It lies shamelessly about its
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own powerlessness while clinging to the very tools of power
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it denies others. And this is nothing more than cowardice
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dressed up as fidelity to law. And it's calculated to
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protect not just Epstein's ghost, but the living, breathing people
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who benefited from his crimes and connections. Those people remain shielded,
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not by accident but by design. Every time the DOJ
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chooses not to act, sends a message to victims. The
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message is your pain doesn't matter. To the public, the
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message is the truth is too dangerous. And to the powerful,
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the message is we got your back. That's the real
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function of the non prosecution agreement, not to resolve Epstein's case,
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but to preserve the power structure that enabled them. And
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that's why the DOJ fights so hard to keep it alive,
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not because it must, but because it wants to, not
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because the law demands it, but because the institution depends
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on it. If the deal falls, so does the facade
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of integrity. They've spent decades building better in their minds
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to defend the predator's protection than to admit the department
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itself was part of the conspiracy. And the survivors understand
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this better than anyone. They've lived it. They've seen the
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door slam shut, the excuses piled high, the blame shifted
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in every direction but the right one. They know that
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the Sweetheart deal is in an artifact of two thousand
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and eight. It's a living betrayal that the DOJ continues
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to feed every time it argues it can't be undone,
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and the public needs to understand it too, because this
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isn't just about Epstein, It's about precedent. If the DOJ
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can defend a non prosecution agreement for one of the
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most notorious predators of the modern era, what else can
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it defend? What other backroom deals, what other corrupt bargains,
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What other protections for the powerful are hidden in plain sight?
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As you all know, this is not a one off scandal.
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It's a case study and how the DOJ operates when
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it thinks no one is watching. It shows us that
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the Department's first instinct is not transparency, not accountability, but
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self preservation, and once that instinct is triggered, it will
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twist the law into whatever shape it needs to justify
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the betrayal. That's why this story won't die, because it
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reveals the DOJ's true character, and no amount of press releases,
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no number of staged motions, no carefully worded denials can
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hide what's now. The DOJ is not fighting for justice
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in the Epstein case. It's fighting to bury it, and
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the irony is almost too much to bear. The agency
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called the Department of Justice has become the Department of justification,
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justifying secrecy, justifying corruption, justifying betrayal. It's no longer a
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watchdog of the law. It's a guard dog for the powerful.
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And when institutions route this deeply, when betrayal becomes normalized,
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when justice is reduced to performance art, the damage is generational.
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Survivors lose faith, citizens lose faith, the very idea of
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fairness becomes laughable. And once that trust is gone, it
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does not come back. Because how do you tell a
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victim who is trafficked as a teenager that the deal
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protecting her trafficker is untouchable. How do you tell the
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public that a predator was shielded by the law itself
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and that nothing can be done. How do you say
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those words with the straight face and still pretend that
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you stand for justice. You don't unless the institution is
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so hollowed out, so corrupted, so consumed by self preservation
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that it no longer feels shame. And that's what the
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DOJ has become in the Epstein saga, shameless. And that
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is why this matters. Because the DOJ could undo the deal,
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it could fix what was broken, It could stand with
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the victims, It could defend the law. But it won't.
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It won't because the deal is not a mistake to them.
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It's a shield, a shield for their corruption, a shield
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for the powerful, a shield against accountability. And until that
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shield is shattered, until the DOJ admits what it did
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and what it continues to do, justice will remain a mirage.
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The survivors will remain silenced, and the public will remain deceived.
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And that is the gut punch. The Department of Justice,
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the institution we trust to protect us from predators of
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this world, became the predator's last line of defense. All
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