Overview
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News on Tuesday that the Justice Department has released everything tied to Jeffrey Epstein and invited members of Congress to review unredacted materials at DOJ facilities.
- The department says it reviewed about 6 million pages and has made roughly 3.5 million public with legally required redactions, while holding back a smaller set for legal reasons.
- At a Semafor event, Blanche said the DOJ would support public congressional hearings with Epstein survivors and urged victims with evidence to report to the FBI.
- House Oversight tensions escalated after former Attorney General Pam Bondi skipped a scheduled deposition, as ranking member Robert Garcia threatened contempt for her failure to appear.
- Bipartisan critics, including Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, say the DOJ has not met the Epstein Files Transparency Act and accuse it of shielding records without required written justifications, while victims filed suit after personal details were exposed in the releases.