Former Harvard president Larry Summers has now lost virtually every professional association after a House committee released emails of his exchanges with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Many of the correspondences are embarrassing.
There’s going to be little, if any, sympathy for a well-known elite who’s angered conservatives and liberals and befriended creeps. And perhaps Summers doesn’t deserve any.
Even so, there isn’t even a hint of illegality in those emails.
There’s nothing suggesting that Summers participated in any kind of impropriety or conspiracy.
The only purpose of the release was to destroy him.
Congress has voted to compel release of the so-called “Epstein files,” a trove of documents amassed during criminal investigations into the sex offender who committed suicide in 2019.
The contents are likely brimming with thousands of names of innocent people, many of whom have provided alibis or were never under any suspicion of sex trafficking or any other crime.
A significant portion of any criminal investigation consists of uncorroborated accusations that are floated by people on the periphery of the case, third-hand accounts, theories and rumors.
This is why grand jury files are almost always sealed.
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