Hey everyone, it's Michael. I'm back again and so soon. After wrapping up the Epstein

Scandal series last week, a couple of things continued to irk me, things that I hadn't quite

put enough of a bow on to consider them concluded, at least as concluded as any

story can get on this podcast. So I'm back for an epilogue of sorts. An episode that may be

the end of my take on the Epstein story for good, or maybe just for now. Only time will tell.

In the last episode, Part 7, The System, I said that Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

was the lone vote against the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and that he did not explain

his vote.

He was the only member of Congress to vote against the act, but I was wrong in saying that

he did not explain his vote.

He did.

So I owe the correction.

Hicken said that the bill, as written, would abandon 250 years of criminal justice procedure

in America, and would absolutely result in innocent people being hurt.

He said that his concern was for witnesses,

people who provided alibis, and family members who might be named in the files. On Twitter,

he said that he would support the bill if the Senate amended it to address those concerns.

The Senate did not amend it, and it passed unanimously without any changes. Higgins' explanation deserves scrutiny

for what it included and what it left out. He mentioned witnesses, alibis, and family members.

He did not mention survivors, or victims. He did not mention the hundreds of women and girls

whose abuse was the reason those files existed,

and who had been vocally advocating for the bill itself.

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