On May 29, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi sat for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee about the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. In her account, Bondi told lawmakers she had not personally run the document review and had delegated oversight to acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
The committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia, said Bondi was trying to shift blame onto Blanche, quoting her as saying Blanche “was managing the entire investigation.” Bondi pushed back on social media afterward, writing “NOT TRUE” and praising Blanche's management and calling his ethics “beyond reproach.”
Bondi told the committee the department had “produced everything required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act” and that withheld material was “non-responsive, privileged, or duplicative,” an assertion that is widely contested. She acknowledged that redaction errors had occurred. The Justice Department has still not released roughly 2.5 million pages of Epstein investigative files, and much of what has been published is heavily redacted (see Blanche Goes on Fox News and Redefines 2.5 Million Unreleased Epstein Pages as 'Not Epstein Files' While 15 Survivors Push Back, The House Oversight Committee Subpoenas AG Bondi Over Epstein Files in a Bipartisan 24-19 Vote Led by Republican Nancy Mace).