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Drip, Drip, Drip How much more don’t we know? Dan Rather and Team Steady Nov 13 Credit: Getty Images The Situation Room at the White House is designed to track a crisis. It’s where President Obama watched Navy SEALSs take out Osama bin Laden, where President Johnson strategized Vietnam, and President Kennedy monitored the Cuban Missile Crisis. On Monday, behind its soundproof walls, it was used to strong-arm a Republican member of Congress into changing her mind about releasing the Epstein files. Rep. Lauren Boebert is one of a growing number of Republicans who want the Department of Justice to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump is scared. He is scared of what’s in the Epstein files — so scared that keeping them concealed has been a central preoccupation of his second term. It is one reason the shutdown lasted so long and was likely part of the calculus of the eight Senators who capitulated, allowing the government to reopen. They reas...
