WASHINGTON — Millions of files released, a U.S. Cabinet member implicated, multiple European governments thrown into crisis. And the members of Congress who forced the Justice Department to release its investigative files on billionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein said the government is still engaged in a cover-up.
“It’s both an exposure in a big way, but it’s also a cover-up,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told HuffPost.
Khanna, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) all said it’s clear President Donald Trump’s administration is still unnecessarily and illegally holding back information about Epstein and his relationship with other powerful figures. Khanna and Massie were the lead sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, while Raskin led Democrats at a House Judiciary Committee grilling of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, where she insisted the department had done its best.
“More than 500 attorneys and reviewers spent thousands of hours painstakingly reviewing millions of pages to comply with Congress’ law,” Bondi said. “We’ve released more than 3 million pages, including 180,000 images, all to the public, while doing our very best in the timeframe allotted by the legislation to protect victims. And if you brought us a victim’s name that was inadvertently released, we immediately redacted it.”
