WASHINGTON — Democrats are seething over revelations the Justice Department is tracking lawmakers’ searches of the Epstein files, with some saying Attorney General Pam Bondi should resign and others pushing to overhaul the way lawmakers are allowed to view the sensitive documents.
“We’re in the middle of a cover-up, and so we have to use the extremely embarrassing fact that they’ve been spying on us to come up with a completely different system for us to review these documents,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, told HuffPost.
Even House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), one of President Donald Trump’s foremost defenders, told reporters Thursday he was looking into the matter and suggested the Justice Department had acted inappropriately.
“That would obviously be an important line that’s crossed, and obviously we can’t allow for that,” Johnson said.
The Justice Department set up a satellite office this week where lawmakers could review material the department had excluded from the public disclosure required by a law passed last year. The office includes four computers, and lawmakers said department officials logged them in and remained in the room while they browsed the material.
