Two of the House lawmakers who reviewed the files—Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ro Khanna of California—said the redactions appeared to include one “high up” foreign government official and other prominent individuals whose names and photographs were obscured in the versions previously released to the public.
“There are six men, some of them with their photographs, that have been redacted, and there’s no explanation why those people were redacted,” Massie, a Republican, said after spending roughly two hours reviewing the documents inside a secure reading room at a Department of Justice satellite office.
Firstly, it doesn’t matter how prominent a person is.
Secondly if any person is so stupid to allow their picture to be taken with Epstein, etc, then they absolutely deserve to be named and shamed for that stupidity.
I think it does. It matters MORE the more prominent they are.
In a version of this timeline where no one has a good guess for any of these, you’d wanna know about the prominent ones first. They’re easier to catch, typically.
But since we’re in a much worse timeline that doesn’t necessarily apply. But in general it matters more, so something can be done about their influence in the meantime. Not to change punishments, but to stop further harm.