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House Oversight Committee Democrats say most Epstein files turned over
by DOJ were already public
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated:
11:13 AM EDT, Mon August 25, 2025
Source: CNN
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 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.
Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee also claimed in a that the DOJ’s files
are “largely thousands of pages of recycled content already made
available to the public.”
A Justice Department spokesperson told CNN in a statement that the
department provided 33,000 pages to the House Oversight Committee,
saying it was “more than was ever requested by the committee when the
Ranking Member’s party was in the majority.”
“This DOJ will continue to work closely with Congress in pursuit of
transparency while adhering to protections afforded to victims of
heinous crimes,” the spokesperson added.
The oversight committee earlier this month 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 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.
Lee said the other records DOJ handed over that were already released
include: video from the correctional center the night of Epstein’s
death, a DOJ inspector general report on Epstein’s death,
communications between the Bureau of Prisons and DOJ about Epstein’s
death, Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on releasing the Epstein
files, and court documents from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine
Maxwell’s trial and Epstein’s criminal case in Florida.
Asked to respond to the claims from Khanna and Lee, a House Oversight
spokesperson told CNN that the committee “continues to review the
34,000 pages of documents and has no further update at this time.”
“It’s important to note that this is the first batch of documents
from the DOJ, with more to come,” the spokesperson said in a
statement.
The committee had it plans to make the Epstein files public after a
“thorough review” to ensure victims’ identities and other
sensitive matters are redacted. It remains unclear how soon the records
will be publicly released.
The DOJ turned over the records to the committee the same day it
released a that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with
Maxwell.
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight
panel, accused the DOJ of releasing the Maxwell transcript “to
distract from their continued White House cover-up.”
This story has been updated with a statement from the Department of
Justice.
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