If American politicians, military leaders, major contractors etc are being extorted because of their behavior on Epstein Island, that's national security.

if the financiers were foreign governments.

Of course, I feel it's mostly about protecting some people for personal reasons.

I can't imagine why any state secrets would be involved, but with this bunch one never knows.

stall for time.

Remarkable hallucinations.

I hadn’t heard this but literally nobody is being prosecuted.

That ship has sailed, shipwrecked, and sank to the bottom of the sea.

They don't have any plausible deniability about whether or not some elites had sex with minors so they may seek to classify most of the file contents on concerns about revealing sources and methods related to "national security" operations. After all, it's well-known that intelligence agencies conduct "honey trap" operations to compromise adversaries and targets associated with them. And when they try to hide things this way, who will be willing to leak that information to the public and risk being charged with treason?