DOJ lawyer accused by ex-prosecutor of 'obscene cover-up' to 'revictimize' Epstein women
An attorney has criticized the rollout and redactions of Jeffrey Epstein's files, as well as the reaction of United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, accused Blanche of carrying out a cover up of the files and suggested Donald Trump's administration was not coming clean with the files as fast as they should.
In an appearance on Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast, Kirschner said, "What Todd Blanche is saying is absurd, it is obscene, it is a cover up, it is revictimizing these young victims.
"They were young at the time, and to even suggest that in the millions and millions of documents in the investigation that was conducted previously of these crimes, where reportedly more than 1,000 girls were sex trafficked - to suggest the only two people that have criminal culpability in this was Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, is f------ laughable."
Kirschner went on to say the victims are currently being "mistreated" by the Department of Justice and the Deputy Attorney General.
He added, "One way or another, justice has to come for the abuse these then young girls now women suffered as part of the sex trafficking conspiracy.
"There's a little bit of light on the horizon because what we're seeing the Department of Justice doing now in some of the recent reporting is they recklessly, if not intentionally, allowed thousands and thousands and thousands of references to victims names to be spewed into the public square when they released those three million documents.
"They had one job to do, redact victim information. They, at a minimum, recklessly, and it even feels more nefarious and sinister than that, but at least recklessly endangered and victimized hundreds of these victims.
"If there is any good news in all of this, if we can mine through all the bad news, it is that the DoJ's recklessness has now given the victims absolute standing to file a lawsuit and to demand that all of the Epstein files, not being released in the first instance, but be put in the hands of a special master [an extension of the court]."