Attorney General Pamela Bondi showed little regret during an oversight hearing Wednesday for the Justice Department’s controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, a release that publicly exposed the names and identifying information of survivors.
Instead, with some survivors behind her at the hearing, the attorney general struck a brazenly antagonistic posture before the House Judiciary Committee as Democrats raised issues tied to Epstein and a law Congress passed last year that ordered the release of records related to him.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the panel, was among committee members who criticized the DOJ for overly redacting information that could identify people who may have been co-conspirators or enablers of Epstein’s abuse, while failing to fully redact victim information.
