The Department of Justice said Thursday that it “logs all searches” by members of Congress on its data systems holding evidence about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to guard against the public release of information about his victims.
The DOJ’s statement came a day after a document contained in a binder used by Attorney General Pam Bondi at a House Judiciary Committee hearing indicated the DOJ had logged information about searches of the so-called Epstein files by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
Jayapal, D-Wash., called the monitoring of her searches in the Epstein files “totally inappropriate,” and “outrageous.”
Several other members of Congress in recent days visited the DOJ to examine the Epstein files, including documents that were not among the more than 3 million files related to the predator that have been publicly released.
In a statement to CNBC on Thursday, a DOJ spokeswoman said, “DOJ has extended Congress the opportunity to review unredacted documents in the Epstein files.”
