Former prosecutor regrets release of the Epstein Files. (NYT)

[usonian]

Such as we got to date.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/epstein-files-justice-department.html

No paywall for me but if you get one,

https://archive.md/MmHj7

By Daniel Richman

We have to reckon with what happens when a huge investigative haul — with its swirling mix of gossip, casual association and possible criminal misconduct — is opened up for public viewing.

Does he have an axe to grind?

These coercive investigative tools can and have been misused, as when prosecutors and F.B.I. agents illegally rummaged through my emails and computer files in an effort to come up with a case against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

In short, he argues that the government has the brute power to beat facts out of people EXCEPT HIMSELF.

The following power was not explicitly given by me.

We give federal prosecutors and agents a broad range of information-gathering tools that private parties and even most government agencies aren’t allowed to use. At the heart of criminal enforcement authority is the power to invade privacy. Legally available tools include search warrants, wiretaps, grand jury subpoenas and administrative subpoenas. That is how criminal investigators gain access to our emails, our private conversations, and our phone, bank and medical records. In addition, we allow prosecutors and agents to use the threat of prosecution to gain the cooperation of witnesses.

ICE uses unconstitutional "administrative warrants". Details here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220986886

So this fellow condones unconstitutional invasive search and seizure

1. As long as it is kept secret, and
2. As long as it doesn't happen to him.

I think this sums it up perfectly.

When materials collected in a criminal investigation get released in bulk for public consumption, the justification for the coercive and privacy-invading tools we give investigators gets a lot weaker.

Opinion:
Exactly. When cops behave like criminals, do we have "justice"? Do two wrongs ever make a right? Not in my life.

For all its asininity, the internet often seems the only way to break "protection rings" such as we see right now around the little pedo king.

Bondi and the like didn't just conceal information, but their intransigence opened the lid on coercive unconstitutional behavior, which whether you approve of it or not, now extends to extrajudicial murder of Americans and others by anonymous government storm troopers.

It's like asking a piranha to stop feeding.