Congress rails against the DOJ's skirting of Epstein: 'The exact opposite of what they're supposed to do'
Source: The Independent
Friday 09 January 2026 15:43 EST
Members of Congress who pushed to release the files related to Jeffrey Epstein told The Independent that the Department of Justice is skirting the letter of the law it passed to force the release of the files. In November, Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) filed a discharge petition to force the House to vote on their legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release all files related to Epstein.
That vote passed almost unanimously and it passed by unanimous consent in the Senate. But Massie criticized the release of the files almost as soon as the process began. In fact, Trump officials have admitted they are still going through the files to make proper redactions and not everything was released by the December 19 deadline set by federal law.
Massie said that he wanted to see the 302 forms, which the FBI uses to describe interviews. Massie also said he wanted to see the full initial documents from the late convicted sex offender’s 2008 case, which allowed him to be convicted on lesser state charges in Florida after a deal between attorneys.
“They need to produce the initial draft indictment documents in the older case in Florida, they need to produce the same thing,” he told The Independent. “In the 2019 case, there's some very specific documents that are not releasing.”
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/congress-epstein-department-of-justice-b2897757.html
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