In some news sure to raise eyebrows, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in a letter sent on Saturday, February 14, that “all” of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files have been released as required by Section 3 of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The letter was sent to the leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee.
As background, strange stonewalling from Bondi and the DOJ led to an infuriated Congress passing the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a very wide margin. The Act required the DOJ actually release the files rather than just promise to do so or hide behind “national security” concerns as a reason for not doing so. It also set a quick deadline, forcing most of the Southern District of New York’s administrative personnel to spend nearly all of their time redacting the victim names and explicit photos in the files.
In any case, all the work has, Bondi claimed, been done, and the files have, she claimed, been completely released. Such is what Fox News Digital reported in an article containing the letter that Bondi sent to the House and Senate leadership, noting as well that the cumulative files release has exposed over 300 individuals who were connected to Epstein, some of them quite closely.
Those names include, amongst many who were already known to be in his orbit, liberal business, media, and political figures, such as Barack and Michelle Obama, Prince Harry, Bill Gates, Woody Allen, Kim Kardashian, Kurt Cobain, Mark Zuckerberg and Bruce Springsteen.
In any case, claiming that all the files have been released, AG Bondi said, “In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and as described in various Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York assigned to the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutions and related orders, the Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’.”
The hundreds of released names, she went on to add, shortly before a section that listed all of the hundreds in alphabetical order, include “all persons where (1) they are or were a government official or politically exposed person and (2) their name appears in the files released under the Act at least once”. She further noted that those hundreds of names appear in a “wide variety of contexts.”
Further, commenting on what redactions there were and what sorts of information and names were not redacted from the released filed, AG Bondi claimed, “No records were withheld or redacted ‘on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.'”
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She then said, adding a bit more detail to that, “Any omissions from the list are unintentional and, as explained in the previous letters to Congress, a result of the volume and speed with which the Department complied with the Act. Individuals whose names were redacted for law-enforcement sensitive purposes are not included.”
Watch Congressman Tim Burchett comment on Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Congress here: