New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- WASHINGTON - For the women who survived Jeffrey Epstein, the files are not an abstraction. They name the people who paid for time with them, the people who arranged travel, the people who knew what was happening and looked the other way. A law Congress passed to force those names into the open is on the books. The Justice Department has not followed it.

At an August 13 hearing in federal court, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ran out of patience with the Justice Department lawyers seated before him. The department had failed to publish its redaction justifications. It had failed to produce a redaction log. It had failed to begin releasing foreign-language documents. It had failed to produce notes concerning Donal...