Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast Evan Osnos & Asha Rangappa
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Feb 11, 2026 
Asha Rangappa, former FBI special agent and national security lawyer, and Evan Osnos, New Yorker writer on wealth and power, discuss the unredacted Epstein files. They examine who appears, legal hurdles to prosecution, institutional failures, elite networks that shielded wrongdoing, and the broader political and social implications of elite accountability.
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Cover-Up, Not Just Crimes
- The cover-up around Epstein exposed institutional failures, especially at the FBI.
- Evan Osnos highlights redactions and FBI self-protection as central problems enabling impunity.
Reporter Who Reopened The Case
- Julie K. Brown reopened the Epstein story through persistent investigative reporting.
- Evan Osnos credits her work with revealing thousands more victims and forcing renewed scrutiny.
Getting Away Became A Status Symbol
- Epstein embodied an age where ostentation and escaping consequences confer social status.
- Evan Osnos notes that getting away with abuse had become a perverse prestige marker.
