1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

DOJ protestations that Epstein enablers, coconspirators, and clients in his sex trafficking enterprise cannot be prosecuted at this time are as unconvincing as ever. On February 19, police in the UK arrested now-disgraced and former-prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of misconduct in public office by police investigating the former prince’s dealings with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. There are decades of missed opportunities to hold Epstein and his vile associates accountable for the ways that they abused, commodified and exploited the girls and women he targeted for trafficking. With the entire world watching, DOJ continues to obfuscate and to make innocuous pop culture references indistinguishable from salacious exchanges between individuals known to Epstein. It continues to refuse to pursue accountability in any meaningful way even as peer nations around the world remove Epstein’s grotesque party mates from power and prosecute them. To correct this grave miscarriage of Justice, •Congress must have access to all six million pages of the Epstein files, including the deliberately and illegally withheld 3 million pages, in their unredacted form. •DOJ must be considered a compromised agency, unable to further investigate or prosecute Epstein cases after 6 administrations of failures to act appropriately regarding this trafficking ring •Congress must appoint or create a new agency that can, without fear or favor, organize and maintain a searchable database of Epstein files while safeguarding and investigating the physical evidence that remains from decades of buried or bungled Epstein archives •A newly created agency must use full Epstein archives to produce accountability through prosecutions Releasing the files was never about prurient interest in reading what survivors went through; accountability requires prosecutions.