1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

As countries around the world have seen powerful men in their ranks named as involved with Epstein long after his child sex trafficking behaviors were clear and public, the US is increasingly emerging as an outlier. Elsewhere his named associates are shunned, removed from positions and power or they resign in disgrace. In the United States, our president—-who boasted for years about his and Epstein’s shared predilection for younger women—-continually tells the press and the American people to stop talking about bringing those who enabled Epstein’s crimes to justice. This Administration has been more involved than any in history in the internal operations of the Department of Justice, and there we have seen no interest or desire for accountability for those who participated in Epstein’s crimes or who enabled him to continue trafficking girls and women. Even after being compelled by legislation to release all evidence against those involved, the DOJ has withheld nearly 3 million documents and redacted the names of people involved in abuse while exposing identities of those victimized. It is either a scandalous amount of incompetence or an effective tool to threaten and deter additional witnesses. This is not the kind of exceptionalism America should embrace. Congress must pursue further targeted legislation, legal action, and impeachment against those within DOJ who continue to protect pedophiles, traffickers, and their powerful enablers from within our government.