Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department provided to the panel Friday.
“Only 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling,” Rep. Ro Khanna of California said in a statement Saturday as he called for the full release of the files.
Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania in a statement also claimed that the DOJ’s files are “largely thousands of pages of recycled content already made available to the public.”
The oversight committee earlier this month subpoenaed the Justice Department for any Epstein-related files, along with communications between former Biden administration officials and the DOJ related to Epstein, as many of President Donald Trump’s supporters seek more information and transparency about the case. The committee has also subpoenaed high-profile witnesses to testify, including the Clintons.
According to Lee, the “only new disclosure” is fewer than 1,000 pages from Customs and Border Protection’s “log of flight locations of the Epstein plane” dating from 2000 to 2014 and “forms consistent with reentry back” to the United States.
