The Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking case files under the new transparency law.

The United States is poised on December 19 to pry open one of its most closely guarded case files, as President Donald Trump's administration prepares to release a long-suppressed cache of records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It is anticipated that the documents will include substantial redactions. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert takes a look at the highly political dimension of the affair.