Attorney General Pam Bondi\u2019s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee<\/a> on Wednesday showed her holding a binder open to a page that said \u201cJayapal Pramila Search History\u201d and that listed a series of documents that were apparently reviewed. Pramila Jayapal is a Democratic congresswoman and was among the Judiciary Committee members who pressed Bondi during the hearing about the department\u2019s handling of the Epstein files.<\/p>\nJayapal called it \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d and said lawmakers will be \u201cdemanding a full accounting\u201d of how the department is using the search history.<\/p>\n
\u201cBondi has enough time to spy on Members of Congress, but can\u2019t find it in herself to apologize to the survivors of Epstein\u2019s horrific abuse,\u201d Jayapal said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
A bipartisan contingent of lawmakers has traveled in recent days to a Justice Department outpost to review less-redacted records from the files, but some who have seen the documents have complained that too much information about Epstein associates remains withheld from view. The Trump administration Justice Department said last month that it was releasing more than 3 million pages along with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images related to Epstein investigations.<\/p>\n
Spokespeople for the Justice Department did not immediately return a request seeking comment Thursday, and a representative for the inspector general\u2019s office declined to comment.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Raskin said that not only had the Justice Department withheld records from lawmakers \u201cbut now Bondi and her team are spying on members of Congress conducting oversight in yet another blatant attempt to intrude into Congress\u2019s oversight processes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cDOJ must immediately cease tracking any Members\u2019 searches, open up the Epstein review to senior congressional staff, and publicly release all files\u2014with all the survivors\u2019 information, and only the survivors\u2019 information, properly redacted\u2014as required by federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A top Democrat is calling for a watchdog…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[83583,58184,83584,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-175222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-doj-spying-on-lawmakers","9":"tag-epstein-files","10":"tag-jamie-raskin","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}