Pam Bondi tells lawmakers ‘redaction errors’ were made in Epstein files release - BERITAJA

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi told lawmakers connected the House Oversight Committee connected Friday that the Justice Department made “redaction errors” successful its release of records related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to a transcript of her opening connection obtained by Beritaja.

Bondi planned to show the sheet during her closed-door question and reply connected Capitol Hill that she was assured by the squad that reviewed the documents that “the only materials that were withheld were either non-responsive, privileged, aliases duplicative,” according to the opening statement.

“To the champion of my knowledge, the Department produced everything required nether the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Our diligent and bully religion effort to cod materials ensured that each perchance responsive documents that could beryllium reasonably located would spot the ray of day,” she planned to opportunity successful her opening statement.

The erstwhile lawyer general, whom Trump fired successful past month, said she didn’t lead each facet of the reappraisal of the Epstein files and delegated oversight of the process to then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who now serves arsenic acting lawyer general.

“There were redaction errors,” her opening remarks said. “But since time 1 of this process, this Department has been committed to accountability and transparency. Our stance has ever been that the Department stands fresh to reappraisal immoderate imaginable grounds of criminal activity related to Epstein and his associates and would prosecute due investigative aliases prosecutorial action wherever the facts and rule warrant.”

Bondi and Trump’s Justice Department has faced backlash complete the release of the documents related to the precocious convicted activity offender, particularly from survivors of his abuse. The documents were heavy redacted, but exposed survivors’ names aft assurances that they would beryllium protected. Democratic lawmakers person said that the DOJ, meanwhile, redacted names of men who whitethorn person participated successful Epstein’s abuse.

Bondi besides came nether occurrence arsenic lawyer wide aft she said successful February 2025 during an question and reply connected Fox News that she had an Epstein customer database connected her desk, a declare that ne'er came to fruition.

Then, past July, the Justice Department and FBI released an unsigned memo saying location was nary grounds of specified a customer database aliases that Epstein had blackmailed salient people, and concluding the financier had died by termination — igniting further backlash among conservatives and others.

Before the Oversight panel’s question and reply pinch Bondi began connected Friday, survivors stood extracurricular the proceeding room and asked Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., if the committee will activity answers about why survivors’ identities were made public, but not perpetrators’.

“I dream so. Those are questions we’re going to ask,” Comer said. “We want justness for the survivors.”