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SOFREP Sunday Cartoon: Bare Bones Epstein Files

BY Guy D. McCardle

America didn’t order a platter of bleached-clean bones, but that’s exactly what Congress keeps serving every time it pretends the Epstein files are finally on the table.

A nice crispy skin, but no meat when you cut into it. Image Credit: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Scraps on the National Dining Table

Congress keeps lifting the lid on the Epstein files with the confident, sly grin of a waiter who knows the kitchen ran out of anything edible hours ago. What the public keeps getting is a pile of bones with the meat shaved clean, delivered with a flourish as if anyone should applaud the effort. The timing could not be richer. Thanksgiving week arrives, and the country is being served the investigative equivalent of a turkey carcass that has already done three tours through a soup pot.

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The people asked for answers. They received trimmings.

The Great Institutional Vanishing Act

Behind the great Ozian curtain, the banks and power brokers who once orbited Epstein slip out of sight with their hands raised like magicians who insist the trick was done cleanly.

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“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” Image Credit: Flickr

They announce that their records have been scrubbed of sensitive information for the usual reasons of compliance and privacy.

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As if the public cannot smell the bleach.

The explanation always boils down to national security protections or procedural requirements or the familiar claim that certain names must be withheld to avoid harm.

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It is a convenient routine that shields the influential and leaves everyone else staring at black ink where truth should be.

The Feast No One Ordered

The whole spectacle plays out like a restaurant that advertises a full holiday spread yet serves only the bones picked clean by the kitchen staff. A restaurant would never be able to get away with that. Why should Congress? 

The country is told that the full release of the Epstein files is complicated, ongoing, or under review. The story shifts while the product stays the same.

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The public paid for a complete accounting and instead received leftovers that no amount of seasoning can revive.

This is why anger keeps building.

The people are smart enough to know when they are being fed scraps.
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