Politics attracts psychopaths, and DC is full of them.
We can’t the Epstein files fully released, we can’t get files from a host of other scandals released, if the full truth were released it could release an election tsunami of people getting voted out...
It’s mutually assured destruction; both sides would lose a host of congressmen and Senators, each side has agreed to keep thing secret and only used when the cost of protecting the politician becomes inconvenient.
Attracted to politics is one thing. These people were recruited.